12. Blessed is the one You discipline, Adonai, and teach him from Your Torah,
13. to give him rest from days of trouble —until a pit is dug for the wicked.
14. For Adonai will not forsake His people. He will never abandon His inheritance.
15. For rightness will be restored to justice, and all the upright in heart will follow it.
16. Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against evildoers?
17. Unless Adonai had been my help, my soul would soon have dwelt in the abode of silence.
18. If I say: “My foot has slipped,” Your mercy, Adonai, will hold me up.
19. When my troubling thoughts multiply within me, Your consolations comfort my soul.
20. Can a throne of corruption be aligned with You—planning distress by decree?
21. They band together against the life of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood.
22. But Adonai has been my fortress and my God the rock of my refuge.
23. He will repay them for their wickedness, and will annihilate them in their evil. Adonai our God will annihilate them.