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¹ O Yahweh, God of vengeance,
God of vengeance, shine forth.
² Rise up, O Judge of the earth.
Repay upon the proud what is their rightful due.
³ How long will the wicked, O Yahweh,
how long will the wicked exult?
⁴ They gush words^[a] unrestrained.
All the evildoers boast.
⁵ They crush your people, O Yahweh;
they oppress your inheritance.
⁶ They kill widow and stranger,
and they murder orphans,
⁷ while^[b] they say, "Yah^[c] does not see,"
and "The God of Jacob does not pay attention."
⁸ You pay attention, O brutes among the people.
And you fools, when you will show insight?
⁹ Will the one who planted the ear not hear?
Will the one who formed the eye not see?
¹⁰ Will the one who instructs nations not rebuke,
the one who teaches humankind knowledge?
¹¹ Yahweh knows the thoughts of humankind,
that they are to no purpose.^[d]
12 Blessed is the man, O Yah, whom you instruct
and teach from your law,
¹³ to give him rest from days of trouble,
until a pit is dug for the wicked.
¹⁴ For Yahweh will not abandon his people,
nor forsake his inheritance.
¹⁵ For judgment will return to righteousness,^[e]
and all the upright in heart will follow after it.
¹⁶ Who rose up for me against the wicked?
Who stood up for me against the workers of iniquity?
¹⁷ If Yahweh had not been my help,
my soul would soon have dwelt in silence.
¹⁸ When I thought,^[f] "My foot is slipping,"
your loyal love, O Yahweh, supported me.
¹⁹ When my troubled thoughts were many within me,^[g]
your consolations cheered my soul.
²⁰ Can there be allied with you a throne of destruction,
one that forms trouble based on statute?
²¹ They band together against the life of the righteous,
and declare the blameless guilty of blood.^[h]
22 But Yahweh has become my high stronghold,
and my God has become my rock of refuge.
²³ And he will repay on them their iniquity,
and by^[i] their evil he will destroy them.
Yahweh our God will destroy them.