O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth, thou God, to whom vengeance belongeth, show thyself.
Arise, thou Judge of the world, and reward the proud after their deserving.
Lord, how long shall the ungodly, how long shall the ungodly triumph? How long shall all wicked doers speak so disdainfully, and make such proud boasting? They smite down thy people, O Lord, and trouble thine heritage.
They murder the widow and the stranger, and put the fatherless to death.
And yet they say, Tush, the Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.
Take heed, ye unwise among the people;
O ye fools, when will ye understand? He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? or he that made the eye, shall he not see? Or he that instructeth the heathen, it is he that teacheth man knowledge;
shall not he punish? The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are but vain.
Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him in thy law, that thou mayest give him patience in time of adversity, until the pit be dug up for the ungodly.
For the Lord will not fail his people;
neither will he forsake his inheritance.
And why? judgement shall return again unto righteousness, and all such as are true in heart shall follow it.
Who will rise up with me against the wicked? or who will take my part against the evil doers? If the Lord had not helped me, it had not failed, but my soul had been put to silence.
But when I said, My foot hath slipped, thy mercy, O Lord, held me up.
In the multitude of the sorrows that I had in my heart, thy comforts have refreshed my soul.
Wilt thou have anything to do with the stool of wickedness, which imagineth mischief as a law? They gather them together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
But the Lord is my refuge, and my God is the strength of my confidence.
He shall recompense them their wickedness, and destroy them in their own malice;
yea, the Lord our God shall destroy them.