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¹ O LORD, 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 LORD, 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 LORD, and afflict thine heritage.⁶ They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.⁷ And they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall 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 chastiseth the nations, shall not he correct, even he that teacheth man knowledge?¹¹ The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

¹² Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, 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 the LORD 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 the LORD had been my help, my soul had soon dwelt in silence.¹⁸ When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.¹⁹ In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.²⁰ Shall the 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 the LORD hath been my high tower; and my God the rock of my refuge.²³ And he hath brought upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own evil; the LORD our God shall cut them off.