The wicked meet their downfall and leave no descendants, but the families of the righteous live on.

A good person's house will still be standing after an evildoer's house has been destroyed.

Look at those who are proud; pour out your anger and humble them.

Bury them all in the ground; bind them in the world of the dead.

Why do you boast, great one, of your evil? God's faithfulness is eternal.

So God will ruin you forever; he will take hold of you and snatch you from your home; he will remove you from the world of the living.

Even though you are so high above, you care for the lowly, and the proud cannot hide from you.

On that day the LORD Almighty will humble everyone who is powerful, everyone who is proud and conceited.

But because he became proud, stubborn, and cruel, he was removed from his royal throne and lost his place of honor.

In the same way you younger people must submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you must put on the apron of humility, to serve one another; for the scripture says, "God resists the proud, but shows favor to the humble."

The LORD your God is supreme over all gods and over all powers. He is great and mighty, and he is to be obeyed. He does not show partiality, and he does not accept bribes.

He makes sure that orphans and widows are treated fairly; he loves the foreigners who live with our people, and gives them food and clothes.

God, who lives in his sacred Temple, cares for orphans and protects widows.

He gives the lonely a home to live in and leads prisoners out into happy freedom, but rebels will have to live in a desolate land.

He protects the strangers who live in our land; he helps widows and orphans, but takes the wicked to their ruin.

What God the Father considers to be pure and genuine religion is this: to take care of orphans and widows in their suffering and to keep oneself from being corrupted by the world.