24 He shatters the mighty without investigationand sets others in their place.
25 Thus, knowing their works,he overturns them in the night, and they are crushed.
26 He strikes them for their wickednessin a place for all to see,
27 because they turned aside from following himand had no regard for any of his ways,
28 so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him,and he heard the cry of the afflicted—
29 When he is quiet, who can condemn?When he hides his face, who can behold him,whether it be a nation or a man?—
30 that a godless man should not reign,that he should not ensnare the people.