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God of Vengeance, Shine Forth

¹ O Yahweh, God of ^(F1)(C1)vengeance,
God of ^(F1)vengeance, ^(F2)(C2)shine forth!

^2 (C1)Be lifted up, O ^(C2)Judge of the earth,
Render recompense ^(C3)to the proud.

³ How long shall the wicked, O Yahweh,
How long shall the ^(C1)wicked exult?

⁴ They pour forth words, they ^(C1)speak arrogantly;
All workers of iniquity ^(C2)vaunt themselves.

⁵ They ^(C1)crush Your people, O Yahweh,
And ^(C2)afflict Your inheritance.

⁶ They ^(C1)slay the widow and the sojourner
And murder the orphans.

^7 (C1)They have said, "Yah does not see,
Nor does the God of Jacob discern."

⁸ Discern, you ^(C1)senseless among the people;
And when will you have insight, ^(C1)you fools?

⁹ He who ^(C1)planted the ear, ^(F1)does He not hear?
He who formed the eye, ^(F1)does He not see?

¹⁰ He who ^(F1)(C1)disciplines the nations, will He not rebuke,
Even He who ^(C2)teaches man knowledge?

¹¹ Yahweh ^(C1)knows the thoughts of man,
^(F1)That they are vanity.

¹² Blessed is the man whom ^(C1)You discipline, O Yah,
And ^(C2)whom You teach out of Your law;

¹³ That You may grant him ^(C1)calm from the ^(C2)days of calamity,
Until ^(C3)a pit is dug for the wicked.

¹⁴ For ^(C1)Yahweh will not abandon His people,
Nor will He ^(C2)forsake His inheritance.

¹⁵ For ^(F1)(C1)judgment will ^(F2)again be righteous,
And all the upright in heart will ^(F3)follow it.

¹⁶ Who will ^(C1)arise for me against evildoers?
Who will take his stand for me ^(C2)against workers of iniquity?

¹⁷ If ^(C1)Yahweh had not been my help,
My soul would soon have dwelt in the abode of silence.

¹⁸ If I should say, "^(C1)My foot has stumbled,"
Your lovingkindness, O Yahweh, will hold me up.

¹⁹ When my anxious thoughts ^(F1)multiply within me,
Your ^(C1)consolations delight my soul.

²⁰ Can a ^(F1)(C1)throne of destruction be allied with You,
One ^(C2)which forms ^(F2)trouble by statute?

²¹ They ^(C1)band themselves together against the ^(F1)life of the righteous
And ^(C2)condemn ^(F2)the innocent to death.

²² But Yahweh has been my ^(C1)stronghold,
And my God the ^(C2)rock of my refuge.

²³ He has ^(C1)brought back their ^(F1)iniquity upon them
And will ^(F2)(C2)destroy them in their evil;
Yahweh our God will ^(F2)destroy them.