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| 1 God of vengeance Jehovah! God of vengeance, shine forth. |
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| 2 Be lifted up, O Judge of the earth, Send back a recompence on the proud. |
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| 3 Till when [do] the wicked, O Jehovah Till when do the wicked exult |
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| 4 They utter they speak an old saw, All working iniquity do boast themselves. |
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| 5 Thy people, O Jehovah, they bruise, And Thine inheritance they afflict. |
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| 6 Widow and sojourner they slay, And fatherless ones they murder. |
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| 7 And they say, 'Jehovah doth not see, And the God of Jacob doth not consider.' |
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| 8 Consider, ye brutish among the people, And ye foolish, when do ye act wisely |
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| 9 He who planteth the ear doth He not hear He who formeth the eye doth He not see |
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| 10 He who is instructing nations, Doth He not reprove He who is teaching man knowledge [is] Jehovah. |
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| 11 He knoweth the thoughts of man, that they [are] vanity. |
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| 12 O the happiness of the man Whom Thou instructest, O Jah, And out of Thy law teachest him, |
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| 13 To give rest to him from days of evil, While a pit is digged for the wicked. |
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| 14 For Jehovah leaveth not His people, And His inheritance forsaketh not. |
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| 15 For to righteousness judgment turneth back, And after it all the upright of heart, |
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| 16 Who riseth up for me with evil doers Who stationeth himself for me with workers of iniquity |
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| 17 Unless Jehovah [were] a help to me, My soul had almost inhabited silence. |
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| 18 If I have said, 'My foot hath slipped,' Thy kindness, O Jehovah, supporteth me. |
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| 19 In the abundance of my thoughts within me, Thy comforts delight my soul. |
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| 20 Is a throne of mischief joined [with] Thee A framer of perverseness by statute |
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| 21 They decree against the soul of the righteous, And innocent blood declare wicked. |
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| 22 And Jehovah is for a high place to me, And my God [is] for a rock my refuge, |
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| 23 And turneth back on them their iniquity, And in their wickedness cutteth them off; Jehovah our God doth cut them off! |
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