¹⁸ Surely thou settest them in slippery places: Thou castest them down to destruction.

⁶ Let their way be dark and slippery, And the angel of Jehovah pursuing them.

⁹ who shall suffer punishment, `even' eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

¹² Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery places in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith Jehovah.

²³ And he hath brought upon them their own iniquity, And will cut them off in their own wickedness; Jehovah our God will cut them off.

⁷ When the wicked spring as the grass, And when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; It is that they shall be destroyed for ever.

²³ But thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction: Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; But I will trust in thee. Psalm 56 For the Chief Musician; set to Jonath elem rehokim. `A Psalm' of David. Michtam: when the Philistines took him in Gath.

³⁵ I have seen the wicked in great power, And spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

³⁶ But one passed by, and, lo, he was not: Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

³⁷ Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright; For there is a `happy' end to the man of peace.

³⁸ As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together; The end of the wicked shall be cut off.

²⁴ Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; For Jehovah upholdeth him with his hand.

²⁰ But the wicked shall perish, And the enemies of Jehovah shall be as the fat of lambs: They shall consume; In smoke shall they consume away.

³⁵ Vengeance is mine, and recompense, At the time when their foot shall slide: For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things that are to come upon them shall make haste.