| 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! |