New Living Translation NLT
Young's Literal Translation YLT
1 O LORD, the God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, let your glorious justice shine forth!
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God of vengeance -- Jehovah! God of vengeance, shine forth.
2 Arise, O Judge of the earth. Give 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, O LORD ? How long will the wicked be allowed to gloat?
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Till when [do] the wicked, O Jehovah? Till when do the wicked exult?
4 How long will they speak with arrogance? How long will these evil people boast?
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They utter -- they speak an old saw, All working iniquity do boast themselves.
5 They crush your people, LORD, hurting those you claim as your own.
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Thy people, O Jehovah, they bruise, And Thine inheritance they afflict.
6 They kill widows and foreigners and murder orphans.
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Widow and sojourner they slay, And fatherless ones they murder.
7 “The LORD isn’t looking,” they say, “and besides, the God of Israel doesn’t care.”
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And they say, `Jehovah doth not see, And the God of Jacob doth not consider.'
8 Think again, you fools! When will you finally catch on?
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Consider, ye brutish among the people, And ye foolish, when do ye act wisely?
9 Is he deaf—the one who made your ears? Is he blind—the one who formed your eyes?
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He who planteth the ear doth He not hear? He who formeth the eye doth He not see?
10 He punishes the nations—won’t he also punish you? He knows everything—doesn’t he also know what you are doing?
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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 people’s thoughts; he knows they are worthless!
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He knoweth the thoughts of man, that they [are] vanity.
12 Joyful are those you discipline, LORD, those you teach with your instructions.
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O the happiness of the man Whom Thou instructest, O Jah, And out of Thy law teachest him,
13 You give them relief from troubled times until a pit is dug to capture the wicked.
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To give rest to him from days of evil, While a pit is digged for the wicked.
14 The LORD will not reject his people; he will not abandon his special possession.
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For Jehovah leaveth not His people, And His inheritance forsaketh not.
15 Judgment will again be founded on justice, and those with virtuous hearts will pursue it.
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For to righteousness judgment turneth back, And after it all the upright of heart,
16 Who will protect me from the wicked? Who will stand up 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 helped me, I would soon have settled in the silence of the grave.
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Unless Jehovah [were] a help to me, My soul had almost inhabited silence.
18 I cried out, “I am slipping!” but your unfailing love, O LORD, supported me.
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If I have said, `My foot hath slipped,' Thy kindness, O Jehovah, supporteth me.
19 When doubts filled my mind, your comfort gave me renewed hope and cheer.
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In the abundance of my thoughts within me, Thy comforts delight my soul.
20 Can unjust leaders claim that God is on their side— leaders whose decrees permit injustice?
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Is a throne of mischief joined [with] Thee? A framer of perverseness by statute?
21 They gang up 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 is my fortress; my God is the mighty rock where I hide.
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And Jehovah is for a high place to me, And my God [is] for a rock -- my refuge,
23 God will turn the sins of evil people back on them. He will destroy them for their sins. 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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