1 Y ahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out.

2 R ise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve.

3 Y ahweh, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph?

4 T hey pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.

5 T hey break your people in pieces, Yahweh, and afflict your heritage.

6 T hey kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.

7 T hey say, “Yah will not see, neither will Jacob’s God consider.”

8 C onsider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

9 H e who implanted the ear, won’t he hear? He who formed the eye, won’t he see?

10 H e who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish? He who teaches man knows.

11 Y ahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.

12 B lessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law;

13 t hat you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

14 F or Yahweh won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

15 F or judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright in heart shall follow it.

16 W ho will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?

17 U nless Yahweh had been my help, my soul would have soon lived in silence.

18 W hen I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.

19 I n the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul.

20 S hall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute?

21 T hey gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

22 B ut Yahweh has been my high tower, my God, the rock of my refuge.

23 H e has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.