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[1] God of vengeance -- Jehovah! God of vengeance, shine forth.
[2] Be lifted up, O Judge of the earth, Send back a recompence on the proud.
[3] Till when [do] the wicked, O Jehovah? Till when do the wicked exult?
[4] They utter -- they speak an old saw, All working iniquity do boast themselves.
[5] Thy people, O Jehovah, they bruise, And Thine inheritance they afflict.
[6] Widow and sojourner they slay, And fatherless ones they murder.
[7] And they say, `Jehovah doth not see, And the God of Jacob doth not consider.'
[8] Consider, ye brutish among the people, And ye foolish, when do ye act wisely?
[9] He who planteth the ear doth He not hear? He who formeth the eye doth He not see?
[10] He who is instructing nations, Doth He not reprove? He who is teaching man knowledge [is] Jehovah.
[11] He knoweth the thoughts of man, that they [are] vanity.
[12] O the happiness of the man Whom Thou instructest, O Jah, And out of Thy law teachest him,
[13] To give rest to him from days of evil, While a pit is digged for the wicked.
[14] For Jehovah leaveth not His people, And His inheritance forsaketh not.
[15] For to righteousness judgment turneth back, And after it all the upright of heart,
[16] Who riseth up for me with evil doers? Who stationeth himself for me with workers of iniquity?
[17] Unless Jehovah [were] a help to me, My soul had almost inhabited silence.
[18] If I have said, `My foot hath slipped,' Thy kindness, O Jehovah, supporteth me.
[19] In the abundance of my thoughts within me, Thy comforts delight my soul.
[20] Is a throne of mischief joined [with] Thee? A framer of perverseness by statute?
[21] They decree against the soul of the righteous, And innocent blood declare wicked.
[22] And Jehovah is for a high place to me, And my God [is] for a rock -- my refuge,
[23] And turneth back on them their iniquity, And in their wickedness cutteth them off; Jehovah our God doth cut them off!
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