¹God of vengeances, Yahweh, God of vengeances, shine out.

²Lift yourself up, judge of the land; bring back their recompense on the arrogant.

³How long will the wicked, Yahweh, how long will the wicked exult?

⁴They pour out, they speak arrogance; they boast, all who do wickedness.

⁵Your people, Yahweh, they crush, and your inheritance they afflict.

⁶The widow and the sojourner they kill, and the fatherless they murder.

⁷And they said, Yahweh does not see, and the God of Jacob does not discern.

⁸Discern, you brutish ones among the people; and fools, when will you act wisely?

⁹He who planted the ear, does he not hear? Or he who formed the eye, does he not look?

¹⁰He who disciplines the nations, does he not reprove, he who teaches man knowledge?

¹¹Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are vapor.

¹²Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Yahweh, and teach from your instruction.

¹³To give him quiet from the days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked.

¹⁴For Yahweh will not abandon his people, and his inheritance he will not forsake.

¹⁵For justice will return to righteousness, and all the upright in heart will follow it.

¹⁶Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? Who will take his stand for me against those who do wickedness?

¹⁷Had Yahweh not been a help to me, my being would almost have dwelt in silence.

¹⁸When I said, My foot has slipped, your loyal love, Yahweh, supported me.

¹⁹In the multitude of my disquieting thoughts within me, your consolations delight my being.

²⁰Will a throne of destruction be joined to you, one that fashions mischief by decree?

²¹They band together against the being of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood as guilty.

²²But Yahweh has become a stronghold for me, and my God the rock of my refuge.

²³He brought back on them their wickedness, and in their evil he will put an end to them; Yahweh our God will put an end to them.