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- O Jehovah, thou God to whom vengeance belongeth, Thou God to whom vengeance belongeth, shine forth.
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- Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: Render to the proud [their] desert.
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- Jehovah, how long shall the wicked, How long shall the wicked triumph?
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- They prate, they speak arrogantly: All the workers of iniquity boast themselves.
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- They break in pieces thy people, O Jehovah, And afflict thy heritage.
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- They slay the widow and the sojourner, And murder the fatherless.
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- And they say, Jehovah will not see, Neither will the God of Jacob consider.
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- Consider, ye brutish among the people;
And ye fools, when will ye be wise?
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- He that planted the ear, shall he not hear?
He that formed the eye, shall he not see?
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- He that chastiseth the nations, shall not he correct, [Even] he that teacheth man knowledge?
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- Jehovah knoweth the thoughts of man, That they are vanity.
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- Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Jehovah, And teachest out of thy law;
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- That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, Until the pit be digged for the wicked.
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- For Jehovah will not cast off his people, Neither will he forsake his inheritance.
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- For judgment shall return unto righteousness;
And all the upright in heart shall follow it.
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- Who will rise up for me against the evil-doers?
Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
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- Unless Jehovah had been my help, My soul had soon dwelt in silence.
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- When I said, My foot slippeth;
Thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, held me up.
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- In the multitude of my thoughts within me Thy comforts delight my soul.
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- Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with thee, Which frameth mischief by statute?
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- They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, And condemn the innocent blood.
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- But Jehovah hath been my high tower, And my God the rock of my refuge.
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- And he hath brought upon them their own iniquity, And will cut them off in their own wickedness;
Jehovah our God will cut them off.
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