Psalms 37:3-23

³Confide in Jehovah, and do good; dwell in the land, and feed on faithfulness;

⁴and delight thyself in Jehovah, and he will give thee the desires of thy heart.

⁵Commit thy way unto Jehovah, and rely upon him: he will bring it to pass;

⁶and he will bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.

⁷Rest in Jehovah, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him that prospereth in his way, because of the man that bringeth mischievous devices to pass.

⁸Cease from anger, and forsake wrath; fret not thyself: it would be only to do evil.

⁹For evil-doers shall be cut off; but those that wait on Jehovah, they shall possess the land.

¹⁰For yet a little while, and the wicked is not; and thou considerest his place, but he is not.

¹¹But the meek shall possess the land, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of prosperity.

¹²The wicked plotteth against the righteous, and gnasheth his teeth against him.

¹³The Lord laugheth at him; for he seeth that his day is coming.

¹⁴The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the afflicted and needy, to slay those that are upright in the way:

¹⁵their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.

¹⁶The little that the righteous hath is better than the abundance of many wicked;

¹⁷for the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but Jehovah upholdeth the righteous.

¹⁸Jehovah knoweth the days of the perfect; and their inheritance shall be for ever:

¹⁹they shall not be ashamed in the time of evil, and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

²⁰For the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of Jehovah shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume, like smoke shall they consume away.

²¹The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again; but the righteous is gracious and giveth:

²²for those blessed of him shall possess the land, and they that are cursed of him shall be cut off.

²³The steps of a man are established by Jehovah, and he delighteth in his way: