in order to protect him from times of trouble, until the wicked are destroyed.

Cruel rulers are not your allies, those who make oppressive laws.

He destroyed their vines and fig trees, and broke the trees throughout their territory.

The wicked prepare to kill me, yet I concentrate on your rules.

A slanderer will not endure on the earth; calamity will hunt down a violent man and strike him down.

They will be thrown down the side of a cliff by their judges. They will listen to my words, for they are pleasant.

As a demonstration of your loyal love, destroy my enemies! Annihilate all who threaten my life, for I am your servant.

but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they ambush their own lives!

For the waywardness of the simpletons will kill them, and the careless ease of fools will destroy them.

A man who commits adultery with a woman lacks wisdom, whoever does it destroys his own life.

The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the unfaithful destroys them.

When a wicked person dies, his expectation perishes, and the hope of his strength perishes.

With his speech the godless person destroys his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous will be delivered.

The words of the wicked lie in wait to shed innocent blood, but the words of the upright will deliver them.

The wicked person desires a stronghold, but the righteous root endures.

The one who is slack in his work is a brother to one who destroys.

A person who has friends may be harmed by them, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked; he overthrows the wicked to their ruin.

Deliver those being taken away to death, and hold back those slipping to the slaughter.

Do not lie in wait like the wicked against the place where the righteous live; do not assault his home.