But You, O Lord, are on high forever.
As for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, the Lord will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel!
For they will soon fade like the grass, and wither like the green herb.
My enemies would trample on me all day long, for there are many who fight against me, O Most High.
until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I understood their end.
Surely You set them in slippery places; You cast them down to destruction.
that they may know that You alone, whose name is the Lord, are the Most High over all the earth.
The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, than the mighty waves of the sea.
Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods, for in the matter in which they treated the people insolently, He was above them.”
If you observe in a district the oppression of the poor and violation of justice and righteousness, do not be astounded by the matter. For the high official is watched over by an even higher official, and there are even higher officials over them.
About that time King Herod extended his hands to harm certain ones from the church.
