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¹ God of vengeance—YHWH! God of vengeance, shine forth.² Be lifted up, judging the earth, || Send back a repayment on the proud.³ Until when do the wicked, O YHWH—Until when do the wicked exult?⁴ They utter—they speak arrogance, || All working iniquity boast [about] themselves.⁵ Your people, O YHWH, they bruise, || And they afflict Your inheritance.⁶ They slay widow and sojourner, || And they murder fatherless ones.⁷ And they say, "YHWH does not see, || And the God of Jacob does not consider."⁸ Consider, you brutish among the people, || And you foolish, when do you act wisely?⁹ He who plants the ear, does He not hear? He who forms the eye, does He not see?¹⁰ He who is instructing nations, does He not reprove? He who is teaching man knowledge [is] YHWH.¹¹ He knows the thoughts of man, that they [are] vanity.

¹² O the blessedness of the man || Whom You instruct, O YAH, || And teach him out of Your law,¹³ To give rest to him from days of evil, || While a pit is dug for the wicked.¹⁴ For YHWH does not leave His people, || And does not forsake His inheritance.¹⁵ For judgment turns back to righteousness, || And after it all the upright of heart.¹⁶ Who rises up for me with evildoers? Who stations himself for me with workers of iniquity?¹⁷ Unless YHWH [were] a help to me, || My soul had almost inhabited silence.¹⁸ If I have said, "My foot has slipped," || Your kindness, O YHWH, supports me.¹⁹ In the abundance of my thoughts within me, || Your comforts delight my soul.²⁰ Is a throne of mischief joined [with] You? A framer of perverseness by statute?²¹ They decree against the soul of the righteous, || And declare innocent blood wicked.²² And YHWH is for a high place to me, || And my God [is] for a rock—my refuge,²³ And He turns back their iniquity on them, || And in their wickedness cuts them off; Our God YHWH cuts them off!