Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out.
O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself.
Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve.
Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.
Yahweh, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph?
LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?
They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.
How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
They break your people in pieces, Yahweh, and afflict your heritage.
They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.
They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.
They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
They say, “Yah will not see, neither will Jacob’s God consider.”
Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it .
Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?
Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
He who implanted the ear, won’t he hear? He who formed the eye, won’t he see?
He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish? He who teaches man knows.
He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know ?
Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.
The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law,
Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;
that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.
That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.
For Yahweh won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
For judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright in heart shall follow it.
But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.
Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?
Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
Unless Yahweh had been my help, my soul would have soon lived in silence.
Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.
When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.
When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.
In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul.
In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.
Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute?
Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?
They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
But Yahweh has been my high tower, my God, the rock of my refuge.
But the LORD is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge.
He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.
And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea , the LORD our God shall cut them off.