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📚✭O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongs;
O God, to whom vengeance
belongs, shine forth!
2 📚✭Rise up, O judge of the earth!
Mete out repayment to the proud!
3 📚LORD, how long will the wicked,
how long will the wicked triumph?
4 📚✭How long will they speak
and say hard things,
and all the evildoers boast
of themselves?
5 📚✭They break your people
in pieces,
O LORD, and afflict your inheritance.
6 📚✭They kill the widow
and the foreigner,
and murder the fatherless.
7 📚✭Yet they say, “The LORD
does not see,
the God of Jacob does not pay
attention to it”.
8 📚✭Understand, you senseless among
the people.
And you fools, when
will you be wise?
9 📚He who planted the ear, does
he not hear?
He who formed the eye,
does he not see?
10 📚He who corrects the nations,
does he not judge rightly?
He who teaches man knowledge,
does he not know?
11 📚The LORD knows the thoughts
of man,
that they are futile.
12 📚✭✭Blessed is the man
whom you discipline,
O LORD, and teach from your law,
13 📚✭That you may give him rest
from the days of trouble,
until the pit has been
dug for the wicked.
14 📚For the LORD will not cast away
his people,
he will not forsake his inheritance.
15 📚But judgment will return to
righteousness,
and all the upright in heart
will follow it.
16 📚Who will rise up for me against
the evildoers?
Or who will stand up
for me against
those who do evil?
17 📚✭Unless the LORD had been
my help,
my soul would soon have dwelt
in silence.
18 📚When I said, “My foot
is slipping”,
your mercy, O LORD, held me up.
19 📚✭In my many anxieties
within me,
your comforts delight
my soul.
20 📚✭Will the throne of wickedness,
which creates trouble by law,
have fellowship with you?
21 📚They gather themselves
together against
the soul of the righteous,
and condemn innocent blood.
22 📚But the LORD is my defense✭,
and my God is my rock✭
of refuge.
23 📚And he will bring on them
their own evil,
and will cut them off in their
own wickedness;
yes, the LORD our God
will cut them off.