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¹ O God of vengeances, Jehovah, God of vengeances, shine forth;

² Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth, render the reward to the proud.

³ How long shall the wicked, O Jehovah, how long shall the wicked triumph?

⁴ [How long] shall they utter [and] speak insolence—all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?

⁵ They crush thy people, O Jehovah, and afflict thine inheritance;

⁶ They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless,

⁷ And say, Jah will not see, neither will the God of Jacob regard [it].

⁸ Understand, 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 instructeth the nations, shall not he correct—he that teacheth man knowledge?

¹¹ Jehovah knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

¹² Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Jah, and whom thou teachest out of thy law;

¹³ That thou mayest give him rest from the days of evil, 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 for me against the workers of iniquity?

¹⁷ If Jehovah had not been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.

¹⁸ When I said, My foot slippeth, thy loving-kindness, O Jehovah, held me up.

¹⁹ In the multitude of my anxious thoughts within me thy comforts have delighted my soul.

²⁰ Shall the throne of wickedness be united to thee, which frameth mischief into a law?

²¹ They band together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood.

²² But Jehovah will be my high tower; and my God the rock of my refuge.

²³ And he will bring upon them their iniquity, and will cut them off in their own evil: Jehovah our God will cut them off.