10. Won’t the one who corrects nations punish you?Doesn’t the teacher of people know everything?
11. The Lord knows what people think.He knows their thoughts are just a puff of wind.
12. Lord, those you correct are happy;you teach them from your law.
13. You give them rest from times of troubleuntil a pit is dug for the wicked.
14. The Lord won’t leave his peoplenor give up his children.
15. Judgment will again be fair,and all who are honest will follow it.
16. Who will help me fight against the wicked?Who will stand with me against those who do evil?
17. If the Lord had not helped me,I would have died in a minute.
18. I said, “I am about to fall,”but, Lord, your love kept me safe.
19. I was very worried,but you comforted me and made me happy.
20. Crooked leaders cannot be your friends.They use the law to cause suffering.
21. They join forces against people who do rightand sentence to death the innocent.
22. But the Lord is my defender;my God is the rock of my protection.
23. God will pay them back for their sinsand will destroy them for their evil.The Lord our God will destroy them.