1O Lord, God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, shine forth! (تث 32:35; تث 32:41; تث 32:43; مز 50:2; إش 35:4; إر 51:56; نا 1:2; رو 12:19)2Rise up, O judge of the earth; repay to the proud what they deserve! (مز 7:6; مز 58:11; لو 1:51)3O Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult? (أي 20:5; مز 74:10; رؤ 6:10)4They pour out their arrogant words; all the evildoers boast. (1صم 2:3; مز 31:18; مز 92:7; مز 92:9; مز 125:5; يه 1:15)5They crush your people, O Lord, and afflict your heritage. (أم 22:22; إش 3:15)6They kill the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless; (إش 10:2)7and they say, “The Lord does not see; the God of Jacob does not perceive.” (أي 22:13)8Understand, O dullest of the people! Fools, when will you be wise? (مز 49:10)9He who planted the ear, does he not hear? He who formed the eye, does he not see? (خر 4:11; أم 20:12)10He who disciplines the nations, does he not rebuke? He who teaches man knowledge— (أي 12:23; أي 35:11)11the Lord—knows the thoughts of man, that they are but a breath.[1] (مز 30:5; مز 30:11; 1كو 3:20)12Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord, and whom you teach out of your law, (تث 8:5; أي 5:17; أم 3:11; 1كو 11:32; عب 12:5)13to give him rest from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked. (أي 34:29; مز 49:5; مز 55:23)14For the Lord will not forsake his people; he will not abandon his heritage; (تث 32:9; 1صم 12:22; رو 11:2)15for justice will return to the righteous, and all the upright in heart will follow it. (1صم 12:14; 1مل 14:8; إش 42:3)16Who rises up for me against the wicked? Who stands up for me against evildoers? (مز 12:5)17If the Lord had not been my help, my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence. (مز 31:17; مز 124:1)18When I thought, “My foot slips,” your steadfast love, O Lord, held me up. (مز 20:2; مز 38:16; مز 73:2)19When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul.20Can wicked rulers be allied with you, those who frame[2] injustice by statute? (مز 50:16; مز 58:2; إش 10:1; عا 6:3)21They band together against the life of the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.[3] (مت 27:1; مت 27:4)22But the Lord has become my stronghold, and my God the rock of my refuge. (مز 9:9; مز 14:6; مز 18:2)23He will bring back on them their iniquity and wipe them out for their wickedness; the Lord our God will wipe them out. (مز 7:16; مز 34:21; مز 92:9; أم 2:22)