1Yahweh, God who avenges,
God who avenges, shine over us.

2Rise up, judge of the earth,
give to the proud what they deserve.

3How long will the wicked, Yahweh,
how long will the wicked rejoice?

4They pour out their arrogant words;
all those who do evil boast.

5They crush your people, Yahweh;
they afflict the nation that belongs to you.

6They kill the widow and foreigner who lives in their country,
and they murder the fatherless.

7They say, “Yahweh will not see,
the God of Jacob does not take notice of it.”

8Understand, you stupid people!
You fools, when will you ever learn?

9He who made the ear, does he not hear?
He who formed the eye, does he not see?

10He who disciplines the nations, does he not correct?
He is the one who gives knowledge to man.

11Yahweh knows the thoughts of men,
that they are vapor.

12Blessed is the one whom you instruct, Yahweh,
the one whom you teach from your law.

13You give him rest in times of trouble
until a pit is dug for the wicked.

14For Yahweh will not forsake his people
or abandon his inheritance.

15For judgment will again be righteous;
and all the upright in heart will follow it.

16Who will rise up to defend me against the evildoers?
Who will stand up for me against the wicked?

17Unless Yahweh had been my help,
I would soon be lying down in the place of silence.

18When I said, “My foot is slipping,”
Your covenant faithfulness, Yahweh, held me up.

19When cares within me are many, your consolations make me happy.

20Can a throne of destruction be allied with you,
one who creates injustice by statute?

21They conspire together to take the life of the righteous
and they condemn the innocent to death.

22But Yahweh has been my high tower,
and my God has been the rock of my refuge.

23He will bring on them their own iniquity
and will cut them off in their own wickedness.
Yahweh our God will cut them off.