¹O Yahweh, God of vengeance, God of vengeance, shine forth. ²Rise up, O Judge of the earth. Repay upon the proud what is their rightful due. ³How long will the wicked, O Yahweh, how long will the wicked exult? ⁴⌞They gush words⌟ unrestrained. All the evildoers boast. ⁵They crush your people, O Yahweh; they oppress your inheritance. ⁶They kill widow and stranger, and they murder orphans, ⁷while they say, “Yah does not see,” and “The God of Jacob does not pay attention.” ⁸You pay attention, O brutes among the people. And you fools, when you will show insight? ⁹Will the one who planted the ear not hear? Will the one who formed the eye not see? ¹⁰Will the one who instructs nations not rebuke, the one who teaches humankind knowledge? ¹¹Yahweh knows the thoughts of humankind, that ⌞they are to no purpose⌟. ¹²Blessed is the man, O Yah, whom you instruct and teach from your law, ¹³to give him rest from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked. ¹⁴For Yahweh will not abandon his people, nor forsake his inheritance. ¹⁵For judgment will return to righteousness, and all the upright in heart will follow after it. ¹⁶Who rose up for me against the wicked? Who stood up for me against the workers of iniquity? ¹⁷If Yahweh had not been my help, my soul would soon have dwelt in silence. ¹⁸When I thought, “My foot is slipping,” your loyal love, O Yahweh, supported me. ¹⁹When my troubled thoughts were many ⌞within me⌟, your consolations cheered my soul. ²⁰Can there be allied with you a throne of destruction, one that forms trouble based on statute? ²¹They band together against the life of the righteous, and declare the blameless guilty of blood. ²²But Yahweh has become my high stronghold, and my God has become my rock of refuge. ²³And he will repay on them their iniquity, and by their evil he will destroy them. Yahweh our God will destroy them.