1 Oh Jehovah God, to whom vengeance belongs; Oh God, to whom vengeance belongs, show yourself.
2 Lift up yourself, you judge of the Earth: render a reward to the proud.
3 Jehovah, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?
4 How long shall they utter and speak hard things? And all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
5 They break in pieces your people, oh, Jehovah, and humiliate your heritage.
6 They destroy the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
7 Yet they say, Jehovah shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.
8 Understand, you brutish among the people: and you fools, when will you be wise?
9 He who planted the ear, shall he not hear? He Who formed the eye, shall he not see?
10 He who chastises the heathen, shall not he correct? He Who teaches man knowledge, shall not he know? *
11 Jehovah knows the thoughts of man, that they are vapor.
12 Blessed is the man whom you chasten, oh, Jehovah, and teach him out of your law;
13 That you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be dug for the wicked.
14 For Jehovah will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
15 But judgment shall return to righteousness: and all the upright in mind shall follow it.
16 Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? Or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
17 Unless Jehovah had been my help, my mind had almost dwelt in silence.
18 When I said, My foot slips; your mercy, oh, Jehovah, held me up.
19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me your comforts delight my mind.
20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with you, which frames mischief by a law?
21 They gather themselves together against the person of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
22 But Jehovah is my defense; and my God is the rock of my Shelter.
23 And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yes, Jehovah our God shall cut them off.