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1 - God of vengeance--Jehovah! God of vengeance, shine forth.

2 - Be lifted up, O Judge of the earth, Send back a recompence on the proud.

3 - Till when <FI>do<Fi> the wicked, O Jehovah? Till when do the wicked exult?

4 - They utter--they speak an old saw, All working iniquity do boast themselves.

5 - Thy people, O Jehovah, they bruise, And Thine inheritance they afflict.

6 - Widow and sojourner they slay, And fatherless ones they murder.

7 - And they say, `Jehovah doth not see, And the God of Jacob doth not consider.'

8 - Consider, ye brutish among the people, And ye foolish, when do ye act wisely?

9 - He who planteth the ear doth He not hear? He who formeth the eye doth He not see?

10 - He who is instructing nations, Doth He not reprove? He who is teaching man knowledge <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah.

11 - He knoweth the thoughts of man, that they <FI>are<Fi> vanity.

12 - O the happiness of the man Whom Thou instructest, O Jah, And out of Thy law teachest him,

13 - To give rest to him from days of evil, While a pit is digged for the wicked.

14 - For Jehovah leaveth not His people, And His inheritance forsaketh not.

15 - For to righteousness judgment turneth back, And after it all the upright of heart,

16 - Who riseth up for me with evil doers? Who stationeth himself for me with workers of iniquity?

17 - Unless Jehovah <FI>were<Fi> a help to me, My soul had almost inhabited silence.

18 - If I have said, `My foot hath slipped,' Thy kindness, O Jehovah, supporteth me.

19 - In the abundance of my thoughts within me, Thy comforts delight my soul.

20 - Is a throne of mischief joined <FI>with<Fi> Thee? A framer of perverseness by statute?

21 - They decree against the soul of the righteous, And innocent blood declare wicked.

22 - And Jehovah is for a high place to me, And my God <FI>is<Fi> for a rock--my refuge,

23 - And turneth back on them their iniquity, And in their wickedness cutteth them off; Jehovah our God doth cut them off!