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¹ O Lord, the God who avenges!
O God who avenges, reveal your splendor!
² Rise up, O judge of the earth!
Pay back the proud!
³ O Lord, how long will the wicked,
how long will the wicked celebrate?
⁴ They spew out threats and speak defiantly;
all the evildoers boast.
⁵ O Lord, they crush your people;
they oppress the nation that belongs to you.
⁶ They kill the widow and the one residing outside his native land,
and they murder the fatherless.
⁷ Then they say, "The Lord does not see this;
the God of Jacob does not take notice of it."
⁸ Take notice of this, you ignorant people!
You fools, when will you ever understand?
⁹ Does the one who makes the human ear not hear?
Does the one who forms the human eye not see?
¹⁰ Does the one who disciplines the nations not punish?
He is the one who imparts knowledge to human beings!
¹¹ The Lord knows that
peoples' thoughts are morally bankrupt.
¹² How blessed is the one whom you instruct, O Lord,
the one whom you teach from your law,
¹³ in order to protect him from times of trouble,
until the wicked are destroyed.
¹⁴ Certainly the Lord does not forsake his people;
he does not abandon the nation that belongs to him.
¹⁵ For justice will prevail,
and all the morally upright will be vindicated.
¹⁶ Who will rise up to defend me against the wicked?
Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?
¹⁷ If the Lord had not helped me,
I would have laid down in the silence of death.
¹⁸ If I say, "My foot is slipping,"
your loyal love, O Lord, supports me.
¹⁹ When worries threaten to overwhelm me,
your soothing touch makes me happy.
²⁰ Cruel rulers are not your allies,
those who make oppressive laws.
²¹ They conspire against the blameless,
and condemn to death the innocent.
²² But the Lord will protect me,
and my God will shelter me.
²³ He will pay them back for their sin.
He will destroy them because of their evil;
the Lord our God will destroy them.