There the evildoers lie prostrate, they are thrust down, unable to rise.
Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
Let burning coals fall upon them! Let them be cast into pits, no more to rise!
I thrust them through, so that they were not able to rise; they fell under my feet.
But thou, O God, wilt cast them down into the lowest pit; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in thee.
The Lord has made himself known, he has executed judgment; the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion. Selah
and say, ‘Thus shall Babylon sink, to rise no more, because of the evil that I am bringing upon her.’ ” Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
Who shall not fear and glorify thy name, O Lord? For thou alone art holy. All nations shall come and worship thee, for thy judgments have been revealed.”
“So perish all thine enemies, O Lord! But thy friends be like the sun as he rises in his might.” And the land had rest for forty years.