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