²¹ Certainly the evil-doer will not go free from punishment, but the seed of the upright man will be safe.

⁵ Everyone who has pride in his heart is disgusting to the Lord: he will certainly not go free from punishment.

¹ Let the Lord be praised. Happy is the man who gives honour to the Lord, and has great delight in his laws.

² His seed will be strong on the earth; blessings will be on the generation of the upright.

³⁹ And I will give them one heart and one way, so that they may go on in the worship of me for ever, for their good and the good of their children after them:

³⁹ For the word of God is for you and for your children and for all those who are far off, even all those who may be marked out by the Lord our God.

² Do not be moved to do wrong by the general opinion, or give the support of your words to a wrong decision:

²⁶ All the day he is ready to have mercy and to give; his children are a blessing.

²² The heritage of the good man is handed down to his children's children; and the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the upright man.

⁴ My passion is over: if the thorns were fighting against me, I would make an attack on them, and they would be burned up together.

⁷ And I will make between me and you and your seed after you through all generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to you and to your seed after you.

⁸ And to you and to your seed after you, I will give the land in which you are living, all the land of Canaan for an eternal heritage; and I will be their God.