¹³ The same happens to all who forget God.
    The hopes of the godless evaporate.

¹⁷ The wicked will go down to the grave.^[a]
    This is the fate of all the nations who ignore God.

³⁴ For the godless are barren.
    Their homes, enriched through bribery, will burn.

¹⁶ But this is what will save me—I am not godless.
    If I were, I could not stand before him.

²⁰ But the wicked will be blinded.
    They will have no escape.
    Their only hope is death.”

²⁸ The hopes of the godly result in happiness,
    but the expectations of the wicked come to nothing.

⁵ the triumph of the wicked has been short lived
    and the joy of the godless has been only temporary?

¹⁸ I cry out, “My splendor is gone!
    Everything I had hoped for from the Lord is lost!”