<p class="poetry">You reprimand arrogant people.p> <p class="poetry">Those who stray from your commands are doomed.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Guarantee the welfare of your servant!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Do not let the arrogant oppress me!p>

<p class="poetry">Arrogant people do nothing but scoff at me.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Yet I do not turn aside from your law.p>

<p class="poetry">May the arrogant be humiliated, for they have slandered me!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">But I meditate on your precepts.p>

<p class="poetry">The arrogant dig pits to trap me,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">which violates your law.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">O God, arrogant men attack me;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">a gang<n id="2" /> of ruthless men, who do not respect you, seek my life.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Arrogant people smear my reputation with lies,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">but I observe your precepts with all my heart.p>

So now we consider the arrogant to be happy; indeed, those who practice evil are successful.<n id="1" /> In fact, those who challenge<n id="2" /> God escape!&#8217;&#8221;p>

<n id="1" /><p class="poetry">I will punish the world for its evil,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and wicked people for their sin.p> <p class="poetry">I will put an end to the pride of the insolent,p> <p class="poetry">I will bring down the arrogance of tyrants.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext"><v id="(3:19)" /><n id="1" /> &#8220;For indeed the day<n id="2" /> is coming, burning like a furnace, and all the arrogant evildoers will be chaff. The coming day will burn them up,&#8221; says the <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all. &#8220;It<n id="3" /> will not leave even a root or branch.