²⁵ When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more; But the righteous stand firm forever.

⁵ He who doesn't lend out his money for usury, Nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken.

⁹ Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, He will sweep away the green and the burning alike.

³ A man shall not be established by wickedness, But the root of the righteous shall not be moved.

³⁰ The righteous will never be removed, But the wicked will not dwell in the land.

¹⁹ However God's firm foundation stands, having this seal, "The Lord knows those who are his," and, "Let every one who names the name of the Lord{TR reads "Christ" instead of "the Lord"} depart from unrighteousness."

¹⁹ laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold of eternal life.

²⁰ being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;

¹⁸ I also tell you that you are Peter,{Peter's name, Petros in Greek, is the word for a specific rock or stone.} and on this rock{Greek, petra, a rock mass or bedrock.} I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

²⁴ "Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

²⁵ The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn't fall, for it was founded on the rock.

²⁶ Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn't do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand.

²⁷ The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell--and great was its fall."

²⁴ Yes, they have not been planted; yes, they have not been sown; yes, their stock has not taken root in the earth: moreover he blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.

⁷ The wicked are overthrown, and are no more, But the house of the righteous shall stand.

²⁷ When calamity overtakes you like a storm, When your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; When distress and anguish come on you.

¹⁸ Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

¹⁹ How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

²⁰ As a dream when one wakes up, So, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.

⁹ For evildoers shall be cut off, But those who wait for Yahweh shall inherit the land.

¹⁰ For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more. Yes, though you look for his place, he isn't there.

¹⁹ He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.

²⁰ Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest steals him away in the night.

²¹ The east wind carries him away, and he departs; It sweeps him out of his place.

¹⁸ That they are as stubble before the wind, As chaff that the storm carries away?