17. If the Lord had not helped me,I would have gone quickly to the land of silence.
18. I said, “I am falling”;but your constant love, O Lord, held me up.
19. Whenever I am anxious and worried,you comfort me and make me glad.
20. You have nothing to do with corrupt judges,who make injustice legal,
21. who plot against good peopleand sentence the innocent to death.
22. But the Lord defends me;my God protects me.
23. He will punish them for their wickednessand destroy them for their sins;the Lord our God will destroy them.