Psalms 37:5-14

⁵Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act,

⁶making clear as the light your right, and your just cause clear as the noon-day.

⁷In silence and patience wait on the Lord. Be not kindled to anger at those who prosper. At those who execute evil devices.

⁸Desist from anger, abandon wrath: be not kindled to anger it leads but to evil:

⁹for evildoers will be cut off, but the land will be theirs, who wait on the Lord.

¹⁰Yet but a little, and the wicked vanish: look at their place: they are there no more.

¹¹But the humble will have the land, and the rapture of peace in abundance.

¹²The wicked plots against the righteous, snarls like a wild animal;

¹³the Lord laughs, for he sees that his day is coming.

¹⁴The wicked have drawn the sword, and bent the bow, to fell the poor, to slay those who walk uprightly;