8 Pay heed, you M)” style=”line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top;”>senseless among the people;
And when will you understand, N)” style=”line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top;”>stupid ones?
9 He who O)” style=”line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top;”>planted the ear, f]” style=”line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top;”>[f]does He not hear?
He who formed the eye, g]” style=”line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top;”>[g]does He not see?
10 He who h]” style=”line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top;”>[h]P)” style=”line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top;”>chastens the nations, will He not rebuke,
Even He who Q)” style=”line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top;”>teaches man knowledge?
11 The Lord R)” style=”line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top;”>knows the thoughts of man,
i]” style=”line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top;”>[i]That they are a mere breath.

12 Blessed is the man whom S)” style=”line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top;”>You chasten, O j]” style=”line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top;”>[j]Lord,
And T)” style=”line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top;”>whom You teach out of Your law;
13 That You may grant him U)” style=”line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top;”>relief from the V)” style=”line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top;”>days of adversity,
Until W)” style=”line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top;”>a pit is dug for the wicked.
14 For X)” style=”line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top;”>the Lord will not abandon His people,
Nor will He Y)” style=”line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top;”>forsake His inheritance.
15 For k]” style=”line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top;”>[k]Z)” style=”line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top;”>judgment l]” style=”line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top;”>[l]will again be righteous,
And all the upright in heart m]” style=”line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top;”>[m]will follow it.
16 Who will AA)” style=”line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top;”>stand up for me against evildoers?
Who will take his stand for me AB)” style=”line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top;”>against those who do wickedness?

17 If AC)” style=”line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top;”>the Lord had not been my help,
My soul would soon have dwelt in the abode of silence.
18 If I should say, “AD)” style=”line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top;”>My foot has slipped,”
Your lovingkindness, O Lord, will hold me up.
19 When my anxious thoughts n]” style=”line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top;”>[n]multiply within me,
Your AE)” style=”line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top;”>consolations delight my soul.
20 Can a o]” style=”line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top;”>[o]AF)” style=”line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top;”>throne of destruction be allied with You,
One AG)” style=”line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top;”>which devises p]” style=”line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top;”>[p]mischief by decree?
21 They AH)” style=”line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top;”>band themselves together against the q]” style=”line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top;”>[q]life of the righteous
And AI)” style=”line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top;”>condemn r]” style=”line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top;”>[r]the innocent to death.
22 But the Lord has been my AJ)” style=”line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top;”>stronghold,
And my God the AK)” style=”line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top;”>rock of my refuge.
23 He has AL)” style=”line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top;”>brought back their wickedness upon them
And will s]” style=”line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top;”>[s]AM)” style=”line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top;”>destroy them in their evil;
The Lord our God will t]” style=”line-height: 22px; vertical-align: top;”>[t]destroy them.