1O Yehovah, you God to whom vengeance belongs, You God to whom vengeance belongs, shine forth.
2Lift up yourself, you judge of the earth: Render to the proud their due.
3Yehovah, how long shall the wicked, How long shall the wicked triumph?
4They babble, they speak arrogantly: All the workers of iniquity boast themselves.
5They break in pieces your people, O Yehovah, And afflict your heritage.
6They slay the widow and the sojourner, And murder the fatherless.
7And they say, Yehovah will not see, Nor will the God of Jacob consider.
8Consider, you brutish among the people; And you fools, when will you be wise?
9He who planted the ear, shall he not hear? He who formed the eye, shall he not see?
10He who chastises the nations, shall he not correct, Even he who teaches man knowledge?
11Yehovah knows the thoughts of man, That they are vanity.
12Blessed is the man whom you chasten, O Yehovah, And teach out of your law;
13That you may give him rest from the days of adversity, Until the pit is dug for the wicked.
14For Yehovah will not cast off his people, Nor will he forsake his inheritance.
15For judgment shall return to righteousness; And all the upright in heart shall follow it.
16Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
17Unless Yehovah had been my help, My soul would soon have dwelt in silence.
18When I said, My foot slips; Your lovingkindness, O Yehovah, 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 frames mischief by statute?
21They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, And condemn the innocent blood.
22But Yehovah has been my high tower, And my God the rock of my refuge.
23And he has brought upon them their own iniquity, And will cut them off in their own wickedness; Yehovah our God will cut them off.