²³ The desire of the righteous `is' only good, The hope of the wicked `is' transgression.

⁸ and to those contentious, and disobedient, indeed, to the truth, and obeying the unrighteousness -- indignation and wrath,

⁹ tribulation and distress, upon every soul of man that is working the evil, both of Jew first, and of Greek;

²⁸ The hope of the righteous `is' joyful, And the expectation of the wicked perisheth.

²⁷ but a certain fearful looking for of judgment, and fiery zeal, about to devour the opposers;

⁶ `Happy those hungering and thirsting for righteousness -- because they shall be filled.

¹⁶ And I hastened not from feeding after Thee, And the desperate day I have not desired, Thou -- Thou hast known, The produce of my lips, before Thy face it hath been,

⁹ `With' my soul I desired Thee in the night, Also, `with' my spirit within me I seek Thee earnestly, For when Thy judgments `are' on the earth, The inhabitants of the world have learned righteousness.

⁷ In the death of a wicked man, hope perisheth, And the expectation of the iniquitous hath been lost.

¹⁰ With all my heart I have sought Thee, Let me not err from Thy commands.

⁵ O that my ways were prepared to keep Thy statutes,

⁷ And, now, what have I expected? O Lord, my hope -- it `is' of Thee.

⁸ From all my transgressions deliver me, A reproach of the fool make me not.

⁴ And delight thyself on Jehovah, And He giveth to thee the petitions of thy heart.

⁴ One `thing' I asked of Jehovah -- it I seek. My dwelling in the house of Jehovah, All the days of my life, To look on the pleasantness of Jehovah, And to inquire in His temple.

¹⁷ The desire of the humble Thou hast heard, O Jehovah. Thou preparest their heart; Thou causest Thine ear to attend,