¹⁸ The wicked earns deceptive wages,
    but one who ^(A)sows righteousness gets a sure reward.

^12 (A)Sow for yourselves righteousness;
    reap steadfast love;
    ^(B)break up your fallow ground,
for it is the time to seek the Lord,
    that he may come and ^(C)rain righteousness upon you.

⁸ Whoever ^(A)sows injustice will reap calamity,
    and ^(B)the rod of his fury will fail.

^5 (A)Those who sow in tears
    shall reap with shouts of joy!
⁶ He who goes out weeping,
    bearing the seed for sowing,
shall come home with shouts of joy,
    bringing his sheaves with him.

¹⁸ but these men ^(A)lie in wait for their own blood;
    they ^(B)set an ambush for their own lives.

⁵ They hatch adders' eggs;
    they weave the spider's web;
he who eats their eggs dies,
    and from one that is crushed a viper is hatched.
^6 (A)Their webs will not serve as clothing;
    men will not cover themselves with what they make.
Their works are works of iniquity,
    and deeds of violence are in their hands.
^7 (B)Their feet run to evil,
    and they are swift to shed innocent blood;
their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
    desolation and destruction are in their highways.
⁸ The way of peace they do not know,
    and there is no justice in their paths;
they have made their roads crooked;
    ^(C)no one who treads on them knows peace.