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