Psalms

¹A Psalm of David himself. The Fourth Sabbath. The Lord is the God of retribution. The God of retribution acts in order to deliver. ↗

²Lift yourself up, for you judge the earth. Repay the arrogant with retribution. ↗

³How long will sinners, O Lord, how long will sinners glory? ↗

⁴How long will they utter and speak iniquity? How long will all who work injustice speak out? ↗

⁵They have humiliated your people, O Lord, and they have harassed your inheritance. ↗

⁶They have executed the widow and the new arrival, and they have slaughtered the orphan. ↗

⁷And they have said, ”The Lord will not see, nor will the God of Jacob understand.“ ↗

⁸Understand, you senseless ones among the people. And be wise at last, you foolish ones. ↗

⁹He who formed the ear, will he not hear? And he who forged the eye, does he not look closely? ↗

¹⁰He who chastises nations, he who teaches man knowledge, will he not rebuke? ↗

¹¹The Lord knows the thoughts of men: that these are in vain. ↗

¹²Blessed is the man whom you will instruct, O Lord. And you will teach him from your law. ↗

¹³So may you soothe him from the evil days, until a pit may be dug for sinners. ↗

¹⁴For the Lord will not drive away his people, and he will not abandon his inheritance, ↗

¹⁵even until the time when justice is being converted into judgment, and when those who are close to justice are all those who are upright of heart. ↗

¹⁶Who will rise up with me against the malignant? Or who will stand with me against the workers of iniquity? ↗

¹⁷Except that the Lord assisted me, my soul almost would have dwelt in Hell. ↗

¹⁸If ever I said, ”My foot is slipping,“ then your mercy, O Lord, assisted me. ↗

¹⁹According to the multitude of my sorrows in my heart, your consolations have given joy to my soul. ↗

²⁰Does the seat of iniquity adhere to you, you who contrive hardship within a commandment? ↗

²¹They will hunt down the soul of the just, and they will condemn innocent blood. ↗

²²And the Lord has been made into a refuge for me, and my God into the assistance of my hope. ↗

²³And he will repay them their iniquity, and he will destroy them in their malice. The Lord our God will utterly destroy them. ↗