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¹ Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs, You God to whom vengeance belongs, shine forth. ² Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve. ³ Yahweh, how long will the wicked, How long will the wicked triumph? ⁴ They pour out arrogant words. All the evil-doers boast. ⁵ They break your people in pieces, Yahweh, And afflict your heritage. ⁶ They kill the widow and the alien, And murder the fatherless. ⁷ They say, "Yah will not see, Neither will Jacob's God consider." ⁸ Consider, you senseless among the people; You fools, when will you be wise? ⁹ He who implanted the ear, won't he hear? He who formed the eye, won't he see? ¹⁰ He who disciplines the nations, won't he punish? He who teaches man knows. ¹¹ Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, That they are futile.

¹² Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, And teach out of your law; ¹³ That you may give him rest from the days of adversity, Until the pit is dug for the wicked. ¹⁴ For Yahweh won't reject his people, Neither will he forsake his inheritance. ¹⁵ For judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright in heart shall follow it. ¹⁶ Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evil-doers? ¹⁷ Unless Yahweh had been my help, My soul would have soon lived in silence. ¹⁸ When I said, "My foot is slipping!" Your lovingkindness, Yahweh, held me up. ¹⁹ In the multitude of my thoughts within me, Your comforts delight my soul. ²⁰ Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, Which brings about mischief by statute? ²¹ They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, And condemn the innocent blood. ²² But Yahweh has been my high tower, My God, the rock of my refuge. ²³ He has brought on them their own iniquity, And will cut them off in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.