But you, O Lord, reign forever!
As for those who are bent on traveling a sinful path, may the Lord remove them, along with those who behave wickedly! May Israel experience peace!
For they will quickly dry up like grass, and wither away like plants.
Those who anticipate my defeat attack me all day long. Indeed, many are fighting against me, O Exalted One.
Then I entered the precincts of God’s temple, and understood the destiny of the wicked.
Surely you put them in slippery places; you bring them down to ruin.
Then they will know that you alone are the Lord, the sovereign king over all the earth.
Above the sound of the surging water, and the mighty waves of the sea, the Lord sits enthroned in majesty.
Now I know that the Lord is greater than all the gods, for in the thing in which they dealt proudly against them he has destroyed them.”
If you see the extortion of the poor, or the perversion of justice and fairness in the government, do not be astonished by the matter. For the high official is watched by a higher official, and there are higher ones over them!
About that time King Herod laid hands on some from the church to harm them.
