12 Blessed is the man whom aYou discipline, O Yah,
And bwhom You teach out of Your law;
13 That You may grant him acalm from the bdays of calamity,
Until ca pit is dug for the wicked.
14 For aYahweh will not abandon His people,
Nor will He bforsake His inheritance.
15 For ajudgment will again be righteous,
And all the upright in heart will follow it.
16 Who will aarise for me against evildoers?
Who will take his stand for me bagainst workers of iniquity?
17 If aYahweh had not been my help,
My soul would soon have dwelt in the abode of silence.
18 If I should say, “aMy foot has stumbled,”
Your lovingkindness, O Yahweh, will hold me up.
19 When my anxious thoughts multiply within me,
Your aconsolations delight my soul.
20 Can a athrone of destruction be allied with You,
One bwhich forms trouble by statute?
21 They aband themselves together against the life of the righteous
And bcondemn the innocent to death.
22 But Yahweh has been my astronghold,
And my God the brock of my refuge.
23 He has abrought back their iniquity upon them
And will bdestroy them in their evil;
Yahweh our God will destroy them.