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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 recompense.³ LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult?⁴ They gush out, they speak arrogancy; all the workers of iniquity bear themselves loftily.⁵ They crush Thy people, O LORD, and afflict Thy heritage.⁶ They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.⁷ And they say: 'The LORD will not see, neither will the God of Jacob give heed.'⁸ Consider, ye brutish among the people; and ye fools, when will ye understand?⁹ He that planted the ear, shall He not hear? He that formed the eye, shall He not see?¹⁰ He that instructeth nations, shall not He correct? even He that teacheth man knowledge?¹¹ The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

¹² Happy is the man whom Thou instructest, O LORD, and 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 the LORD will not cast off His people, neither will He forsake His inheritance.¹⁵ For right shall return unto justice, 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 If I say: 'My foot slippeth', Thy mercy, O LORD, holdeth me up.¹⁹ When my cares are many within me, Thy comforts delight my soul.²⁰ Shall the seat of wickedness have fellowship with Thee, which frameth mischief by statute?²¹ They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn 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 will cut them off in their own evil; {P}