Good News Translation GNT
World English Bible WEB
1 Lord, you are a God who punishes; reveal your anger!
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Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs, You God to whom vengeance belongs, shine forth.
2 You are the judge of us all; rise and give the proud what they deserve!
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Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve.
3 How much longer will the wicked be glad? How much longer, Lord?
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Yahweh, how long will the wicked, How long will the wicked triumph?
4 How much longer will criminals be proud and boast about their crimes?
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They pour out arrogant words. All the evil-doers boast.
5 They crush your people, Lord; they oppress those who belong to you.
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They break your people in pieces, Yahweh, And afflict your heritage.
6 They kill widows and orphans, and murder the strangers who live in our land.
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They kill the widow and the alien, And murder the fatherless.
7 They say, "The Lord does not see us; the God of Israel does not notice."
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They say, "Yah will not see, Neither will Jacob's God consider."
8 My people, how can you be such stupid fools? When will you ever learn?
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Consider, you senseless among the people; You fools, when will you be wise?
9 God made our ears - can't he hear? He made our eyes - can't he see?
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He who implanted the ear, won't he hear? He who formed the eye, won't he see?
10 He scolds the nations - won't he punish them? He is the teacher of us all - hasn't he any knowledge?
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He who disciplines the nations, won't he punish? He who teaches man knows.
11 The Lord knows what we think; he knows how senseless our reasoning is.
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Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, That they are futile.
12 Lord, how happy are those you instruct, the ones to whom you teach your law!
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Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, And teach out of your law;
13 You give them rest from days of trouble until a pit is dug to trap the wicked.
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That you may give him rest from the days of adversity, Until the pit is dug for the wicked.
14 The Lord will not abandon his people; he will not desert those who belong to him.
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For Yahweh won't reject his people, Neither will he forsake his inheritance.
15 Justice will again be found in the courts, and all righteous people will support it.
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For judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright in heart shall follow it.
16 Who stood up for me against the wicked? Who took my side against the evildoers?
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Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evil-doers?
17 If the Lord had not helped me, I would have gone quickly to the land of silence.
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Unless Yahweh had been my help, My soul would have soon lived in silence.
18 I said, "I am falling"; but your constant love, O Lord, held me up.
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When I said, "My foot is slipping!" Your lovingkindness, Yahweh, held me up.
19 Whenever I am anxious and worried, you comfort me and make me glad.
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In the multitude of my thoughts within me, Your comforts delight my soul.
20 You have nothing to do with corrupt judges, who make injustice legal,
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Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, Which brings about mischief by statute?
21 who plot against good people and sentence the innocent to death.
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They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, And condemn the innocent blood.
22 But the Lord defends me; my God protects me.
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But Yahweh has been my high tower, My God, the rock of my refuge.
23 He will punish them for their wickedness and destroy them for their sins; the Lord our God will destroy them.
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He has brought on them their own iniquity, And will cut them off in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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