The ultimate contrast presented in the psalm is repeated again at the end. The blameless, upright, and peacemaker has an eternal future. The sinners and wicked will be cut off.
I am told to observe the upright. Who are the upright? The autistic child sitting alone in the school cafeteria is righteous. The small girl laughed at by other girls because she doesn’t listen to a singer who wears so little clothes on stage. The coworker who is made fun of because they refuse to drink alcohol at the company party. The couple who spend their evenings with their family rather than at a bar and bring their children to a Bible teaching congregation rather than sleep in. The upright is an elderly single person who goes to church every Sunday and is never greeted or noticed.
Who is the sinner? The child who ignores the autistic peer. The girls who bully the small girl. The coworkers who ridicule the person they work with. Family members who gossip about their sibling’s strange boring life. The religious elite who only talk to and recognize their friends at church. These people care little for the Lord and his teaching except when it applies to their own fortune.
The LORD helps the righteous and delivers them; he delivers them from the wicked and saves them, because they take refuge in him. They are not at the mercy of the wicked for the LORD is their refuge, and despite all that the wicked do, the Lord makes secure their inheritance in the promised land.
