Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.

O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial hath perished with them.

They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.

If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;

I will incline my ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.

And he smote his enemies in the hinder part: he put them to a perpetual reproach.

He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.

And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.