Yahweh Will Not Forget His People

1God of vengeance, O YHWH,

O God of vengeance, shine forth!

2Rise up, O Judge of the earth!

Return a recompense on the proud.

3Until when will the wicked, O YHWH,

until when will the wicked exult?

4They pour out words of arrogance;

all the workers of iniquity boast in themselves.

5Your people, O YHWH, they crush,

and Your heritage they afflict.

6The widow and the foreigner they kill,

and the fatherless they murder.

7And they say, “Yah does not see,

and the God of Jacob does not discern.”

8Discern, O senseless among the people!

O fools, when will you⁺ be wise?

9The One planting the ear, can He not hear?

Or the One forming the eye, can He not see?

10The One disciplining the nations, does He not correct—

the One teaching a man knowledge?

11YHWH knows the thoughts of man,

that they are vapor.†

12Blessed is the man whom You instruct, O YAH,

and teach him from Your law,

13that You may give rest to him from the days of evil,

until a pit is dug for the wicked.

14For YHWH will not forsake His people,

and he will not forsake His inheritance.

15But to righteousness the judgment will return,

and all the upright of heart will follow it.

16Who will rise up for me against the evildoers?

Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?

17Unless YHWH had been the help for me,

My soul would soon have dwelt in silence.

18When I said, “My foot is slipping,”

Your loving devotion, O YHWH, supports me.

19In the abundance of my anxieties within me,

Your comforts delighted my soul.

20Can the throne of iniquity join with You—

one shaping mischief by statute?

21They band together against the soul of the righteous,

and condemn innocent blood.†

22And YHWH has become for me as a place up high,

and my God as the rock of my refuge.

23And He has turned back upon them their own iniquity,

and in their wickedness He will finish them off—

YHWH our God, will finish them off!