11. The Lord knows what people are thinking. He knows that their thoughts are like a puff of wind.
12. Lord, great blessings belong to those you discipline, to those you teach from your law.
13. You help them stay calm when trouble comes. You will help them until the wicked are put in their graves.
14. The Lord will not leave his people. He will not leave them without help.
15. Justice will return and bring fairness. And those who want to do right will be there to see it.
16. No one helped me fight against the wicked. No one stood with me against those who do evil.
17. And if the Lord had not helped me, I would have been silenced by death.
18. I know I was ready to fall, but, Lord, your faithful love supported me.
19. I was very worried and upset, but you comforted me and made me happy!
20. You don’t help crooked judges. They use the law to make life hard for the people.
21. They attack those who do right. They say innocent people are guilty and put them to death.
22. But the Lord is my place of safety, high on the mountain. God, my Rock, is my safe place!