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¹ O Yahweh, God to whom vengeance belongs, God to whom vengeance belongs, shine forth.² Lift up yourself, Judge of the earth: Render to the proud [their] desert.³ Yahweh, how long shall the wicked, How long shall the wicked triumph?⁴ They prate, they speak arrogantly: All the workers of iniquity boast themselves.⁵ They break in pieces your people, O Yahweh, And afflict your heritage.⁶ They slay the widow and the sojourner, And murder the fatherless.⁷ And they say, Yah will not see, Neither will the God of Jacob consider.⁸ Consider, you brutish among the people; And you fools, when will you be wise?⁹ He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? He that formed the eye, shall he not see?¹⁰ He that chastises the nations, shall not he correct, [Even] he that teaches man knowledge?¹¹ Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, That they are vanity.

¹² Blessed is the [noble] man whom you chasten, O 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 will not cast off his people, Neither will he forsake his inheritance.¹⁵ For judgment shall return to righteousness; And all the upright in heart shall follow it.¹⁶ Who will rise up for me against the evil-doers? Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?¹⁷ Unless Yahweh had been my help, My soul had soon dwelt in silence.¹⁸ When I said, My foot slips; Your loving-kindness, O Yahweh, held me up.¹⁹ In the multitude of my thoughts inside me Your comforts delight my soul.²⁰ Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, Which frames 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, And my God the rock of my refuge.²³ And he has brought on them their own iniquity, And will cut them off in their own wickedness; Yahweh our God will cut them off.