| English Standard Version | King James Bible |
| 1O LORD, God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, shine forth! | 1O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself. |
| 2Rise up, O judge of the earth; repay to the proud what they deserve! | 2Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud. |
| 3O LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult? | 3LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph? |
| 4They pour out their arrogant words; all the evildoers boast. | 4How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves? |
| 5They crush your people, O LORD, and afflict your heritage. | 5They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage. |
| 6They kill the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless; | 6They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless. |
| 7and they say, “The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob does not perceive.” | 7Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it. |
| 8Understand, O dullest of the people! Fools, when will you be wise? | 8Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise? |
| 9He who planted the ear, does he not hear? He who formed the eye, does he not see? | 9He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see? |
| 10He who disciplines the nations, does he not rebuke? He who teaches man knowledge— | 10He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know? |
| 11the LORD—knows the thoughts of man, that they are but a breath. | 11The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity. |
| 12Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O LORD, and whom you teach out of your law, | 12Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law; |
| 13to give him rest from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked. | 13That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked. |
| 14For the LORD will not forsake his people; he will not abandon his heritage; | 14For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance. |
| 15for justice will return to the righteous, and all the upright in heart will follow it. | 15But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it. |
| 16Who rises up for me against the wicked? Who stands up for me against evildoers? | 16Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity? |
| 17If the LORD had not been my help, my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence. | 17Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence. |
| 18When I thought, “My foot slips,” your steadfast love, O LORD, held me up. | 18When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up. |
| 19When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul. | 19In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul. |
| 20Can wicked rulers be allied with you, those who frame injustice by statute? | 20Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law? |
| 21They band together against the life of the righteous and condemn the innocent to death. | 21They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood. |
| 22But the LORD has become my stronghold, and my God the rock of my refuge. | 22But the LORD is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge. |
| 23He will bring back on them their iniquity and wipe them out for their wickedness; the LORD our God will wipe them out. | 23And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them off. |
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