²² But sinners will be cut off from the land, and those whose acts are false will be uprooted.

⁵ But God will put an end to you for ever; driving you out from your tent, uprooting you from the land of the living. (Selah.)

¹⁰ Happy is the upright man! for he will have joy of the fruit of his ways.

¹¹ Unhappy is the sinner! for the reward of his evil doings will come on him.

³⁰ The upright man will never be moved, but evil-doers will not have a safe resting-place in the land.

²² The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin.

²³ He will come to his end for need of teaching; he is so foolish that he will go wandering from the right way.

²⁰ The Lord will keep all his worshippers from danger; but he will send destruction on all sinners.

³⁵ Let sinners be cut off from the earth, and let all evil-doers come to an end. Give praise to the Lord, O my soul. Give praise to the Lord.

³⁷ Give attention to the good man, and take note of the upright; because the end of that man is peace.

³⁸ But as for the sinners, they will be cut off together; the end of the wrongdoers is destruction.

²⁸ For the Lord is a lover of righteousness, and takes care of his saints; they will be kept safe for ever; but the seed of the evil-doers will be cut off.

²² Those who have his blessing will have the earth for their heritage; but those who are cursed by him will be cut off.

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.

³⁰ How the evil man goes free in the day of trouble, and has salvation in the day of wrath?

¹⁶ Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.

¹⁷ His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name.

¹⁸ He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.

⁶³ And as the Lord took delight in doing you good and increasing you, so the Lord will take pleasure in cutting you off and causing your destruction, and you will be uprooted from the land which you are about to take as your heritage.

⁶⁴ And the Lord will send you wandering among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other: there you will be servants to other gods, of wood and stone, gods of which you and your fathers had no knowledge.

²² The Lord your God will send out the nations before you little by little; they are not to be rooted out quickly, for fear that the beasts of the field may be increased overmuch against you.