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- O God of vengeances, Jehovah, God of vengeances, shine forth;
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- Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth, render the reward to the proud.
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- How long shall the wicked, O Jehovah, how long shall the wicked triumph?
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- [How long] shall they utter [and] speak insolence — all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
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- They crush thy people, O Jehovah, and afflict thine inheritance;
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- They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless,
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- And say, Jah will not see, neither will the God of Jacob regard [it].
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- Understand, 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 instructeth the nations, shall not he correct — 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 Jah, and whom thou teachest out of thy law;
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- That thou mayest give him rest from the days of evil, 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 for me against the workers of iniquity?
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- If Jehovah had not been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.
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- When I said, My foot slippeth, thy loving-kindness, O Jehovah, held me up.
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- In the multitude of my anxious thoughts within me thy comforts have delighted my soul.
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- Shall the throne of wickedness be united to thee, which frameth mischief into a law?
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- They band together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood.
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- But Jehovah will be my high tower;
and my God the rock of my refuge.
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- And he will bring upon them their iniquity, and will cut them off in their own evil: Jehovah our God will cut them off.
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