²² But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.

⁵ God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, And root you out of the land of the living. Selah.

¹⁰ Tell the righteous "Good!" For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

¹¹ Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; For the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.

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

²² The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.

²³ He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.

²⁰ Yahweh preserves all those who love him, But all the wicked he will destroy.

³⁵ Let sinners be consumed out of the earth. Let the wicked be no more. Bless Yahweh, my soul. Praise Yah!

³⁷ Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, For there is a future for the man of peace.

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

²⁸ For Yahweh loves justice, And doesn't forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, But the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

²² For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land. Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off.

²⁰ But the wicked shall perish. The enemies of Yahweh shall be like the beauty of the fields. They will vanish-- Vanish like smoke.

³⁰ That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?

¹⁶ His roots shall be dried up beneath, Above shall his branch be cut off.

¹⁷ His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.

¹⁸ He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.

⁶³ It shall happen that as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Yahweh will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you; and you shall be plucked from off the land where you go in to possess it.

⁶⁴ Yahweh will scatter you among all peoples, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth; and there you shall serve other gods, which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone.

²² Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you by little and little: you may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you.