1 I trust that Yahweh will protect [MTY] me.

So do not [RHQ] say to me, "You need to escape/flee to the mountains like birds do,

2 because wicked people have hidden in the darkness,

they have pulled back their bowstrings and aimed their arrows

to shoot them at godly/righteous [IDM] people like you.

3 When people are not punished for disobeying the laws,

◄what can righteous people do?/there is not much that righteous people can do.►" [RHQ]

4 But Yahweh is sitting on his throne in his sacred temple in heaven,

and he [SYN] watches everything that people do.

5 Yahweh examines what righteous people do and what wicked people do,

and he hates those who like to perform violent actions to injure others.

6 He will send down from the sky flaming coals and burning sulfur,

and send scorching hot winds to punish wicked people.

7 Yahweh is righteous and he loves those who act righteously;

righteous people are able to come into his presence.