²⁹ The way of the Lord is a strong tower for the upright man, but destruction to the workers of evil.

¹⁵ It is a joy to the good man to do right, but it is destruction to the workers of evil.

²⁰ But the wrongdoers will come to destruction, and the haters of the Lord will be like the fat of lambs, they will be burned up; they will go up in smoke, and never again be seen.

¹³ I am able to do all things through him who gives me strength.

⁸ But to those who, from a love of competition, are not guided by what is true, will come the heat of his wrath,

⁹ Trouble and sorrow on all whose works are evil, to the Jew first and then to the Greek;

²⁶ Then you will say, We have taken food and drink with you, and you were teaching in our streets.

²⁷ But he will say, Truly, I have no knowledge of you or where you come from; go away from me, you workers of evil.

²² A great number will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, were we not prophets in your name, and did we not by your name send out evil spirits, and by your name do works of power?

²³ And then will I say to them, I never had knowledge of you: go from me, you workers of evil.

¹² And their strength will be in the Lord; and their pride will be in his name, says the Lord.

³¹ But those who are waiting for the Lord will have new strength; they will get wings like eagles: running, they will not be tired, and walking, they will have no weariness.

⁷ When the sinners come up like the grass, and all the workers of evil do well for themselves, it is so that their end may be eternal destruction.

⁷ They go from strength to strength; every one of them comes before God in Zion.

¹² There the workers of evil have come down: they have been made low, and will not be lifted up.

⁶ Because the Lord sees the way of the upright, but the end of the sinner is destruction.

³ Is it not trouble for the sinner, and destruction for the evil-doers?