Psalms 94:16-20

¹⁶But when wicked people ◄ oppressed me/treated me cruelly►, ◄who defended me?/no one defended me.► RHQ No one stood up to testify for me against those evil people RHQ.

¹⁷If Yahweh had not helped me at that time, I would have been executed, and my soul/spirit would have gone to the place where dead people say nothing.

¹⁸I said/thought to myself, “I am about to die,” but Yahweh, you held me up by faithfully loving me.

¹⁹Whenever I am very worried, you comfort/encourage me and cause me to be happy.

²⁰You have nothing to do with wicked judges, who establish laws that allow people to do what is not legal.