³ For the scepter of wickedness won't remain over the allotment of the righteous; So that the righteous won't use their hands to do evil.

⁸ He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, And the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

²² No enemy will tax him. No wicked man will oppress him.

¹⁰ Don't be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

¹³ No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

⁸ In measure, when you send them away, you do contend with them; he has removed [them] with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.

⁵ Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers;

⁶ who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.

¹⁴ For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

⁹ He will not always accuse; Neither will he stay angry forever.

¹⁰ Behold, this day your eyes have seen how that Yahweh had delivered you today into my hand in the cave: and some bade me kill you; but [my eye] spared you; and I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord; for he is Yahweh's anointed.

⁵ Ho Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!

²⁰ He raises his hands against his friends. He has violated his covenant.