✧O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself. ✧2Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud. ✧3LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph? ✧4[How long] shall they utter [and] speak hard things? [and] all the workers of iniquity boast themselves? ✧5They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage. ✧6They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless. ✧7Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall 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 chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, [shall not he know]? ✧11The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they [are] vanity. ✧12Blessed [is] the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law; ✧13That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked. ✧14For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance. ✧15But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it. ✧16Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? [or] who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity? ✧17Unless the LORD [had been] my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence. ✧18When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up. ✧19In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul. ✧20Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law? ✧21They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood. ✧22But the LORD is my defence; and my God [is] the rock of my refuge. ✧23And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; [yea], the LORD our God shall cut them off.