⁵ Why should I fear in the days of evil, When iniquity at my heels surrounds me?

¹⁷ Dan will be a serpent in the way, An adder in the path, That bites the horse's heels, So that his rider falls backward.

¹⁶ redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

³³ Who could bring a charge against God's chosen ones? It is God who justifies.

³⁴ Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

²⁴ saying, 'Don't be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.'

¹³ Therefore he who is prudent shall keep silence in such a time; For it is an evil time.

² They don't consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face.

¹⁰ Don't you be afraid, for I am with you; don't be dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you; yes, I will help you; yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

¹¹ Behold, all those who are incensed against you shall be disappointed and confounded: those who strive with you shall be as nothing, and shall perish.

¹⁰ If you falter in the time of trouble, Your strength is small.

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

⁶ They conspire and lurk, Watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.

⁷ Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, God.

¹ > God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.

² Therefore we won't be afraid, though the earth changes, Though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas;

⁴ For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

¹ > Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

² When evil-doers came at me to eat up my flesh, Even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

⁴ Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

¹⁶ For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evil-doers have enclosed me. They pierced my hands and my feet.

²⁰ Now therefore, don't let my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of Yahweh: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one does hunt a partridge in the mountains.

²⁸ and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.