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¹ O Jehovah, thou God to whom vengeance belongeth,
Thou God to whom vengeance belongeth, shine forth.
² Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth:
Render to the proud their desert.
³ Jehovah, how long shall the wicked,
How long shall the wicked triumph?
⁴ They prate, they speak arrogantly:
All the workers of iniquity boast themselves.
⁵ They break in pieces thy people, O Jehovah,
And afflict thy heritage.
⁶ They slay the widow and the sojourner,
And murder the fatherless.
⁷ And they say, ^[a]Jehovah will not see,
Neither will the God of Jacob consider.
⁸ Consider, ye brutish among the people;
And ye fools, when will ye be wise?
⁹ He that planted the ear, shall he not hear?
He that formed the eye, shall he not see?
¹⁰ He that ^[b]chastiseth the nations, shall not he correct,
Even he that teacheth man knowledge?
¹¹ Jehovah knoweth the thoughts of man,
^[c]That they are ^[d]vanity.
¹² Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O ^[e]Jehovah,
And teachest out of thy law;
¹³ That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity,
Until the pit be digged for the wicked.
¹⁴ For Jehovah will not cast off his people,
Neither will he forsake his inheritance.
¹⁵ For judgment shall return unto righteousness;
And all the upright in heart shall follow it.
¹⁶ Who will rise up for me against the evil-doers?
Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
¹⁷ Unless Jehovah had been my help,
My soul had soon dwelt in silence.
¹⁸ When I said, My foot slippeth;
Thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, held me up.
¹⁹ In the multitude of my ^[f]thoughts within me Thy comforts delight my soul.
²⁰ Shall the ^[g]throne of wickedness have fellowship with thee,
Which frameth mischief by statute?
²¹ They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous,
And condemn the innocent blood.
²² But Jehovah hath been my high tower,
And my God the rock of my refuge.
²³ And he hath brought upon them their own iniquity,
And will cut them off in their own wickedness;
Jehovah our God will cut them off.