The Message Bible MSG
World English Bible WEB
1 God, put an end to evil; avenging God, show your colors!
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Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs, You God to whom vengeance belongs, shine forth.
2 Judge of the earth, take your stand; throw the book at the arrogant.
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Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve.
3 God, the wicked get away with murder - how long will you let this go on?
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Yahweh, how long will the wicked, How long will the wicked triumph?
4 They brag and boast and crow about their crimes!
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They pour out arrogant words. All the evil-doers boast.
5 They walk all over your people, God, exploit and abuse your precious people.
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They break your people in pieces, Yahweh, And afflict your heritage.
6 They take out anyone who gets in their way; if they can't use them, they kill them.
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They kill the widow and the alien, And murder the fatherless.
7 They think, "God isn't looking, Jacob's God is out to lunch."
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They say, "Yah will not see, Neither will Jacob's God consider."
8 Well, think again, you idiots, fools - how long before you get smart?
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Consider, you senseless among the people; You fools, when will you be wise?
9 Do you think Ear-Maker doesn't hear, Eye-Shaper doesn't see?
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He who implanted the ear, won't he hear? He who formed the eye, won't he see?
10 Do you think the trainer of nations doesn't correct, the teacher of Adam doesn't know?
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He who disciplines the nations, won't he punish? He who teaches man knows.
11 God knows, all right - knows your stupidity, sees your shallowness.
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Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, That they are futile.
12 How blessed the man you train, God, the woman you instruct in your Word,
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Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, And teach out of your law;
13 Providing a circle of quiet within the clamor of evil, while a jail is being built for 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 God will never walk away from his people, never desert his precious people.
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For Yahweh won't reject his people, Neither will he forsake his inheritance.
15 Rest assured that justice is on its way and every good heart put right.
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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 evil workers?
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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 God hadn't been there for me, I never would have made it.
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Unless Yahweh had been my help, My soul would have soon lived in silence.
18 The minute I said, "I'm slipping, I'm falling," your love, God, took hold and held me fast.
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When I said, "My foot is slipping!" Your lovingkindness, Yahweh, held me up.
19 When I was upset and beside myself, you calmed me down and cheered me up.
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In the multitude of my thoughts within me, Your comforts delight my soul.
20 Can Misrule have anything in common with you? Can Troublemaker pretend to be on your side?
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Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, Which brings about mischief by statute?
21 They ganged up on good people, plotted behind the backs of the innocent.
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They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, And condemn the innocent blood.
22 But God became my hideout, God was my high mountain retreat,
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But Yahweh has been my high tower, My God, the rock of my refuge.
23 Then boomeranged their evil back on them: for their evil ways he wiped them out, our God cleaned them out for good.
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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.