Psalms

¹LORD, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out. ²Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve. ³LORD, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph? ⁴They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast. ⁵They break your people in pieces, LORD, and afflict your heritage. ⁶They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless. ⁷They say, “The LORD will not see, neither will Jacob’s God consider.” ⁸Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise? ⁹He who implanted the ear, won’t he hear? He who formed the eye, won’t he see? ¹⁰He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish? He who teaches man knows. ¹¹The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile. ¹²Blessed is the man whom you discipline, LORD, and teach out of your law, ¹³that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked. ¹⁴For the LORD won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance. ¹⁵For judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright in heart shall follow it. ¹⁶Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evildoers? ¹⁷Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul would have soon lived in silence. ¹⁸When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, LORD, held me up. ¹⁹In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul. ²⁰Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute? ²¹They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood. ²²But the LORD has been my high tower, my God, the rock of my refuge. ²³He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. The LORD, our God, will cut them off.