✧LORD, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out. ✧2Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve. ✧3LORD, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph? ✧4They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast. ✧5They break your people in pieces, LORD, and afflict your heritage. ✧6They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless. ✧7They say, “The LORD will not see, neither will Jacob’s God consider.” ✧8Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise? ✧9He who implanted the ear, won’t he hear? He who formed the eye, won’t he see? ✧10He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish? He who teaches man knows. ✧11The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile. ✧12Blessed is the man whom you discipline, LORD, and teach out of your law, ✧13
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that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.
✧14For the LORD won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
✧15For judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright in heart shall follow it.
✧16Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?
✧17Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul would have soon lived in silence.
✧18When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, LORD, held me up.
✧19In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul.
✧20Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute?
✧21They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
✧22But the LORD has been my high tower, my God, the rock of my refuge.
✧23He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. The LORD, our God, will cut them off.