⁶ Yahweh upholds the humble. He brings the wicked down to the ground.

⁸ Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous.

⁹ Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, But the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

⁴ For if God didn't spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus{Tartarus is another name for Hell}, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved to judgment;

⁵ and didn't spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;

⁶ and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly;

⁷ and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked

⁸ (for that righteous man dwelling among them, was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds):

⁹ the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;

⁶ Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time;

⁴ but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.

¹⁰ Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

⁵ Blessed are the gentle, For they shall inherit the earth.

³ Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh's anger.

⁴ For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people. He crowns the humble with salvation.

¹⁴ Yahweh upholds all who fall, And raises up all those who are bowed down.

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.

²³ But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, But I will trust in you.

¹¹ But the humble shall inherit the land, And shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

⁹ He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way.

⁸ He raises up the poor out of the dust, He lifts up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, Inherit the throne of glory: For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh's, He has set the world on them.