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For Jehovah is loving judgment, And He doth not forsake His saintly ones, To the age they have been kept, And the seed of the wicked is cut off.

The mouth of the righteous uttereth wisdom, And his tongue speaketh judgment.

The law of his God [is] his heart, His steps do not slide.

Jehovah doth not leave him in his hand, Nor condemn him in his being judged.

Look unto Jehovah, and keep His way, And He doth exalt thee to possess the land, In the wicked being cut off -- thou seest!

And I, as deaf, hear not. And as a dumb one who openeth not his mouth.

Yea, I am as a man who heareth not, And in his mouth are no reproofs.

With reproofs against iniquity, Thou hast corrected man, And dost waste as a moth his desirableness, Only, vanity [is] every man. Selah.

O the happiness of the man Who hath made Jehovah his trust, And hath not turned unto the proud, And those turning aside to lies.

Jehovah doth preserve him and revive him, He is happy in the land, And Thou givest him not into the will of his enemies.

Jehovah supporteth on a couch of sickness, All his bed Thou hast turned in his weakness.

Mine enemies say evil of me: When he dieth -- his name hath perished!

And if he came to see -- vanity he speaketh, His heart gathereth iniquity to itself, He goeth out -- at the street he speaketh.

By day Jehovah commandeth His kindness, And by night a song [is] with me, A prayer to the God of my life.

Troubled have been nations, Moved have been kingdoms, He hath given forth with His voice, earth melteth.

God hath reigned over nations, God hath sat on His holy throne,

A Song, a Psalm, by sons of Korah. Great [is] Jehovah, and praised greatly, In the city of our God -- His holy hill.

A brother doth no one at all ransom, He doth not give to God his atonement.

Fear not, when one maketh wealth, When the honour of his house is abundant,

For at his death he receiveth nothing, His honour goeth not down after him.