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- Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine forth.
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- Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve.
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- Yahweh, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph?
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- They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.
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- They break your people in pieces, Yahweh, and afflict your heritage.
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- They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.
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- They say, "Yah will not see, neither will Jacob's God consider."
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- Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?
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- He who implanted the ear, won't he hear? He who formed the eye, won't he see?
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- He who disciplines the nations, won't he punish? He who teaches man knows.
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- Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.
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- Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law;
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- that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.
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- For Yahweh won't reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
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- For judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright in heart shall follow it.
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- Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?
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- Unless Yahweh had been my help, my soul would have soon lived in silence.
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- When I said, "My foot is slipping!" Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.
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- In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul.
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- Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about 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 Yahweh has been my high tower, my God, the rock of my refuge.
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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.
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