[1] O Yahweh, God of vengeance, God of vengeance, shine forth! [2] Be lifted up, O Judge of the earth, Render recompense to the proud. [3] How long shall the wicked, O Yahweh, How long shall the wicked exult? [4] They pour forth words, they speak arrogantly; All workers of iniquity vaunt themselves. [5] They crush Your people, O Yahweh, And afflict Your inheritance. [6] They slay the widow and the sojourner And murder the orphans. [7] They have said, “Yah does not see, Nor does the God of Jacob discern.” [8] Discern, you senseless among the people; And when will you have insight, you fools? [9] He who planted the ear, does He not hear? He who formed the eye, does He not see? [10] He who disciplines the nations, will He not rebuke, Even He who teaches man knowledge? [11] Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, That they are vanity. [12] Blessed is the man whom You discipline, O Yah, And whom You teach out of Your law; [13] That You may grant him calm from the days of calamity, Until a pit is dug for the wicked. [14] For Yahweh will not abandon His people, Nor will He forsake His inheritance. [15] For judgment will again be righteous, And all the upright in heart will follow it. [16] Who will arise for me against evildoers? Who will take his stand for me against workers of iniquity? [17] If Yahweh had not been my help, My soul would soon have dwelt in the abode of silence. [18] If I should say, “My foot has stumbled,” Your lovingkindness, O Yahweh, will hold me up. [19] When my anxious thoughts multiply within me, Your consolations delight my soul. [20] Can a throne of destruction be allied with You, One which forms trouble by statute? [21] They band themselves together against the life of the righteous And condemn the innocent to death. [22] But Yahweh has been my stronghold, And my God the rock of my refuge. [23] He has brought back their iniquity upon them And will destroy them in their evil; Yahweh our God will destroy them.
