17 Unless Jehovah [were] a help to me, My soul had almost  inhabited silence.
         
                                
                        18 If I have said, `My foot hath slipped,` Thy kindness, O  Jehovah, supporteth me.
         
                                
                        19 In the abundance of my thoughts within me, Thy comforts  delight my soul.
         
                                
                        20 Is a throne of mischief joined [with] Thee? A framer of  perverseness by statute?
         
                                
                        21 They decree against the soul of the righteous, And  innocent blood declare wicked.
         
                                
                        22 And Jehovah is for a high place to me, And my God [is] for  a rock -- my refuge,
         
                                
                        23 And turneth back on them their iniquity, And in their  wickedness cutteth them off; Jehovah our God doth cut them off!