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Young's Literal Translation YLT
1 The LORD is a God who avenges. O God who avenges, shine forth.
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God of vengeance -- Jehovah! God of vengeance, shine forth.
2 Rise up, Judge of the earth; pay back to the proud what they deserve.
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Be lifted up, O Judge of the earth, Send back a recompence on the proud.
3 How long, LORD, will the wicked, how long will the wicked be jubilant?
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Till when [do] the wicked, O Jehovah? Till when do the wicked exult?
4 They pour out arrogant words; all the evildoers are full of boasting.
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They utter -- they speak an old saw, All working iniquity do boast themselves.
5 They crush your people, LORD; they oppress your inheritance.
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Thy people, O Jehovah, they bruise, And Thine inheritance they afflict.
6 They slay the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.
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Widow and sojourner they slay, And fatherless ones they murder.
7 They say, “The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob takes no notice.”
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And they say, `Jehovah doth not see, And the God of Jacob doth not consider.'
8 Take notice, you senseless ones among the people; you fools, when will you become wise?
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Consider, ye brutish among the people, And ye foolish, when do ye act wisely?
9 Does he who fashioned the ear not hear? Does he who formed the eye not see?
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He who planteth the ear doth He not hear? He who formeth the eye doth He not see?
10 Does he who disciplines nations not punish? Does he who teaches mankind lack knowledge?
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He who is instructing nations, Doth He not reprove? He who is teaching man knowledge [is] Jehovah.
11 The LORD knows all human plans; he knows that they are futile.
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He knoweth the thoughts of man, that they [are] vanity.
12 Blessed is the one you discipline, LORD, the one you teach from your law;
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O the happiness of the man Whom Thou instructest, O Jah, And out of Thy law teachest him,
13 you grant them relief from days of trouble, till a pit is dug for the wicked.
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To give rest to him from days of evil, While a pit is digged for the wicked.
14 For the LORD will not reject his people; he will never forsake his inheritance.
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For Jehovah leaveth not His people, And His inheritance forsaketh not.
15 Judgment will again be founded on righteousness, and all the upright in heart will follow it.
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For to righteousness judgment turneth back, And after it all the upright of heart,
16 Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will take a stand for me against evildoers?
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Who riseth up for me with evil doers? Who stationeth himself for me with workers of iniquity?
17 Unless the LORD had given me help, I would soon have dwelt in the silence of death.
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Unless Jehovah [were] a help to me, My soul had almost inhabited silence.
18 When I said, “My foot is slipping,” your unfailing love, LORD, supported me.
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If I have said, `My foot hath slipped,' Thy kindness, O Jehovah, supporteth me.
19 When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought me joy.
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In the abundance of my thoughts within me, Thy comforts delight my soul.
20 Can a corrupt throne be allied with you— a throne that brings on misery by its decrees?
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Is a throne of mischief joined [with] Thee? A framer of perverseness by statute?
21 The wicked band together against the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.
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They decree against the soul of the righteous, And innocent blood declare wicked.
22 But the LORD has become my fortress, and my God the rock in whom I take refuge.
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And Jehovah is for a high place to me, And my God [is] for a rock -- my refuge,
23 He will repay them for their sins and destroy them for their wickedness; the LORD our God will destroy them.
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And turneth back on them their iniquity, And in their wickedness cutteth them off; Jehovah our God doth cut them off!
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