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| 1 O GOD of avenging–Yahweh, GOD of avenging, shine forth: |
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| 2 Lift up thyself, O judge of the earth, Render a recompense unto the proud. |
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| 3 How long shall the lawless, O Yahweh, How long shall the lawless exult? |
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| 4 They pour forth [words], they speak arrogantly, All the workers of iniquity, do boast: |
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| 5 Thy people, O Yahweh, they will crush, And, thine inheritance, tread down; |
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| 6 The widow and sojourner, they will slay, And, the fatherless, murder. |
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| 7 Yet have they said–Yah, doth not see, The God of Jacob, doth not understand. |
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| 8 Understand, ye brutish among the people, And, ye dullards, when will ye show discretion? |
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| 9 He that planteth the ear, shall he not hear? Or, that fashioneth the eye, shall he not have power to see? |
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| 10 He that correcteth nations, shall he not reprove? He that teacheth man knowledge! |
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| 11 Yahweh, knoweth the plans of men, That, they, are a breath! |
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| 12 How happy the man whom thou correctest, O Yah! And whom, out of thy law, thou instructest! |
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| 13 That thou mayest give him rest from the days of misfortune, Until there be digged–for the lawless one–a pit. |
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| 14 For Yahweh, will not abandon, his people, And, his inheritance, will he not forsake; |
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| 15 For, unto righteousness, shall the judicial sentence return, Then shall follow it–all the upright in heart. |
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| 16 Who will rise up for me, against the evil-doers? Who will make a stand for me, against the workers of iniquity? |
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| 17 If, Yahweh, had not been a help to me, Soon had sunk into silence–my soul! |
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| 18 If I say, My foot, hath slipped, Thy lovingkindness, O Yahweh, supporteth me. |
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| 19 In the multitude of my cares within me, Thy consolations, delight my soul. |
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| 20 Shall the throne that inflicteth ruin, have fellowship with thee, That frameth oppression, by statute? |
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| 21 They make an attack on the life of the righteous one,–And, innocent blood, they condemn. |
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| 22 But, Yahweh, hath become for me a high tower, And my God, my rock of refuge. |
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| 23 Thus hath he brought back on them their iniquity, And, by their own wickedness, will he destroy them, Destroy them, will Yahweh our God. |
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