¹O •God of vengeances, Jehovah, •God of vengeances, shine forth; ²Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth, render the reward to the proud. ³How long shall the wicked, O Jehovah, how long shall the wicked triumph? ⁴How long shall they utter and speak insolence—all the workers of iniquity boast themselves? ⁵They crush thy people, O Jehovah, and afflict thine inheritance; ⁶They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless, ⁷And say, Jah will not see, neither will the God of Jacob regard it. ⁸Understand, ye brutish among the people; and ye fools, when will ye be wise? ⁹He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? He that formed the eye, shall he not see? ¹⁰He that instructeth the nations, shall not he correct—he that teacheth man knowledge? ¹¹Jehovah knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

¹²Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Jah, and whom thou teachest out of thy law; ¹³That thou mayest give him rest from the days of evil, until the pit be digged for the wicked. ¹⁴For Jehovah will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance; ¹⁵For judgment shall return unto righteousness, and all the upright in heart shall follow it. ¹⁶Who will rise up for me against the evil-doers? who will stand for me against the workers of iniquity? ¹⁷If Jehovah had not been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence. ¹⁸When I said, My foot slippeth, thy loving-kindness, O Jehovah, held me up. ¹⁹In the multitude of my anxious thoughts within me thy comforts have delighted my soul. ²⁰Shall the throne of wickedness be united to thee, which frameth mischief into a law? ²¹They band together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood. ²²But Jehovah will be my high tower; and my God the rock of my refuge. ²³And he will bring upon them their iniquity, and will cut them off in their own evil: Jehovah our God will cut them off.

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