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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1O LORD, the God who avenges! O God who avenges, reveal your splendor! |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Rise up, O judge of the earth! Pay back the proud! |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3O LORD, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked celebrate? |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4They spew out threats and speak defiantly; all the evildoers boast. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5O LORD, they crush your people; they oppress the nation that belongs to you. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6They kill the widow and the one residing outside his native land, and they murder the fatherless. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Then they say, "The LORD does not see this; the God of Jacob does not take notice of it." |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Take notice of this, you ignorant people! You fools, when will you ever understand? |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Does the one who makes the human ear not hear? Does the one who forms the human eye not see? |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Does the one who disciplines the nations not punish? He is the one who imparts knowledge to human beings! |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11The LORD knows that peoples' thoughts are morally bankrupt. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12How blessed is the one whom you instruct, O LORD, the one whom you teach from your law, |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13in order to protect him from times of trouble, until the wicked are destroyed. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Certainly the LORD does not forsake his people; he does not abandon the nation that belongs to him. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15For justice will prevail, and all the morally upright will be vindicated. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Who will rise up to defend me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evildoers? |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17If the LORD had not helped me, I would have laid down in the silence of death. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18If I say, "My foot is slipping," your loyal love, O LORD, supports me. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19When worries threaten to overwhelm me, your soothing touch makes me happy. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Cruel rulers are not your allies, those who make oppressive laws. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21They conspire against the blameless, and condemn to death the innocent. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22But the LORD will protect me, and my God will shelter me. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23He will pay them back for their sin. He will destroy them because of their evil; the LORD our God will destroy them. |
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