He also will be my salvation, for a hypocrite could not come before Him.
Listen carefully to my speech, and to my declaration with your ears.
There the righteous might dispute with Him; so would I be delivered forever from my Judge.
“For His eyes are upon the ways of man, and He sees all his goings.
“But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath; they do not cry out when He binds them.
So are the paths of all who forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope will perish,
The Lord is my strength and song; and He has become my salvation.
I will give thanks to You, for You have answered me and have become my salvation.
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
The Lord is my strength and song, and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise Him; my father’s God, and I will exalt Him.
The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness has seized the hypocrites: “Who among us can live with the continual fire? Who among us can live with everlasting burning?”
Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains. Truly, in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.
For thus has the Lord commanded us: ‘I have established you to be a light of the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’ ”