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- 1 LORD, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out.
- 2 Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve.
- 3 LORD, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph?
- 4 They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.
- 5 They break your people in pieces, LORD, and afflict your heritage.
- 6 They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.
- 7 They say, “The LORD 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 The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.
- 12 Blessed is the man whom you discipline, LORD, 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 the LORD 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 evildoers?
- 17 Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul would have soon lived in silence.
- 18 When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, LORD, 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 the LORD 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. The LORD, our God, will cut them off.