for you live among them. You sustain the oppressed with your good blessings, O God.

Though rulers plot and slander me, your servant meditates on your statutes.

Indeed, the leaders sit there on thrones and make legal decisions, on the thrones of the house of David.

May all my enemies be humiliated and absolutely terrified! May they turn back and be suddenly humiliated!

Certainly the godly will give thanks to your name; the morally upright will live in your presence.

If your sons keep my covenant and the rules I teach them, their sons will also sit on your throne forever.”