Psalms 37:6-27

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;

¹⁵but their sword will pierce their own heart, and their bows will be broken in pieces.

¹⁶Better is the righteous person's little than the wealth of many wicked.

¹⁷For the arms of the wicked will be broken, but the Lord upholds the righteous.

¹⁸The Lord watches over the days of the blameless, their heritage will continue forever.

¹⁹They will not be shamed in the evil time, in the days of famine they will be satisfied.

²⁰Because the wicked will perish: but the foes of the Lord, like a brand in the oven, will vanish, like smoke they will vanish.

²¹The wicked must borrow and cannot pay back, but the righteous is lavish and gives.

²²For those blest by the Lord inherit the land, while those whom he curses will be cut off.

²³The Lord supports the steps of those with whom he is pleased.

²⁴Though they fall, they will not be cast headlong, for the Lord holds their hands.

²⁵Never, from youth to age, have I seen the righteous forsaken, or their children begging bread.

²⁶They are ever lavishly lending, and their children are fountains of blessing.

²⁷Turn away from evil and do good and you will live in the land forever.