1. Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out.
2. Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve.
3. Yahweh, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph?
4. They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.
5. They break your people in pieces, Yahweh, and afflict your heritage.
6. They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.
7. They say, “Yah will not see, neither will Jacob’s God consider.”
8. Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?
9. He who implanted the ear, won’t he hear? He who formed the eye, won’t he see?
10. He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish? He who teaches man knows.
11. Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.
12. Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law;
13. that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.
14. For Yahweh won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.