1 > Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, Which can't be moved, but remains forever.
2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem, So Yahweh surrounds his people from this time forth and forevermore.
3 For the scepter of wickedness won't remain over the allotment of the righteous; So that the righteous won't use their hands to do evil.
4 Do good, Yahweh, to those who are good, To those who are upright in their hearts.
5 But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.
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Today's Verse
Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.
Verse Of The DayThe closing verses distinguish the upright, who receive God's goodness, from those who "turn aside unto their crooked ways," who are led away with evildoers. The promise that the righteous will not be pushed to iniquity echoes Jeremiah 17:7-8, and the theme of ascent continues in Psalms 126.
