²⁴ The fears of the wicked will be fulfilled;
    the hopes of the godly will be granted.

¹⁹ He grants the desires of those who fear him;
    he hears their cries for help and rescues them.

⁴ I will send them great trouble—
    all the things they feared.
For when I called, they did not answer.
    When I spoke, they did not listen.
They deliberately sinned before my very eyes
    and chose to do what they know I despise.”

²¹ The sound of terror rings in their ears,
    and even on good days they fear the attack of the destroyer.

² For you have given him his heart’s desire;
    you have withheld nothing he requested. Interlude