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The young lions lack and suffer hunger; But those who seek the LORD shall not lack any good thing.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the LORD delivers him out of them all.

But as for me, when they were sick, My clothing was sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting; And my prayer would return to my own heart.

But in my adversity they rejoiced And gathered together; Attackers gathered against me, And I did not know it; They tore at me and did not cease;

For they do not speak peace, But they devise deceitful matters Against the quiet ones in the land.

For evildoers shall be cut off; But those who wait on the LORD, They shall inherit the earth.

For yet a little while and the wicked shall be no more; Indeed, you will look carefully for his place, But it shall be no more.

But the meek shall inherit the earth, And shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, But the LORD upholds the righteous.

But the wicked shall perish; And the enemies of the LORD, Like the splendor of the meadows, shall vanish. Into smoke they shall vanish away.

The wicked borrows and does not repay, But the righteous shows mercy and gives.

For those blessed by Him shall inherit the earth, But those cursed by Him shall be cut off.

For the LORD loves justice, And does not forsake His saints; They are preserved forever, But the descendants of the wicked shall be cut off.

Yet he passed away, [fn] and behold, he was no more;Indeed I sought him, but he could not be found.

But the transgressors shall be destroyed together; The future of the wicked shall be cut off.

But the salvation of the righteous is from the LORD; He is their strength in the time of trouble.

But I, like a deaf man, do not hear; And I am like a mute who does not open his mouth.

But my enemies are vigorous, and they are strong; And those who hate me wrongfully have multiplied.

Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths, And my age is as nothing before You; Certainly every man at his best state is but vapor.Selah

But I am poor and needy; Yet the LORD thinks upon me. You are my help and my deliverer; Do not delay, O my God.