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¹ O GOD of avenging - Yahweh, GOD of avenging, shine forth:² Lift up thyself, O judge of the earth, Render a recompense unto the proud.³ How long shall the lawless, O Yahweh, How long shall the lawless exult?⁴ They pour forth words , they speak arrogantly, All the workers of iniquity, do boast:⁵ Thy people, O Yahweh, they will crush, And, thine inheritance, tread down;⁶ The widow and sojourner, they will slay, And, the fatherless, murder.⁷ Yet have they said - Yah, doth not see, The God of Jacob, doth not understand.⁸ Understand, ye brutish among the people, And, ye dullards, when will ye show discretion?⁹ He that planteth the ear, shall he not hear? Or, that fashioneth the eye, shall he not have power to see?¹⁰ He that correcteth nations, shall he not reprove? He that teacheth man knowledge!¹¹ Yahweh, knoweth the plans of men, That, they, are a breath!

¹² How happy the man whom thou correctest, O Yah! And whom, out of thy law, thou instructest!¹³ That thou mayest give him rest from the days of misfortune, Until there be digged - for the lawless one - a pit.¹⁴ For Yahweh, will not abandon, his people, And, his inheritance, will he not forsake;¹⁵ For, unto righteousness, shall the judicial sentence return, Then shall follow it - all the upright in heart.¹⁶ Who will rise up for me, against the evil-doers? Who will make a stand for me, against the workers of iniquity?¹⁷ If, Yahweh, had not been a help to me, Soon had sunk into silence - my soul!¹⁸ If I say, My foot, hath slipped, Thy lovingkindness, O Yahweh, supporteth me.¹⁹ In the multitude of my cares within me, Thy consolations, delight my soul.²⁰ Shall the throne that inflicteth ruin, have fellowship with thee, That frameth oppression, by statute?²¹ They make an attack on the life of the righteous one, - And, innocent blood, they condemn.²² But, Yahweh, hath become for me a high tower, And my God, my rock of refuge.²³ Thus hath he brought back on them their iniquity, And, by their own wickedness, will he destroy them, Destroy them, will Yahweh our God.