1. O Lord, the God who avenges!O God who avenges, reveal your splendor!
2. Rise up, O judge of the earth!Pay back the proud!
3. O Lord, how long will the wicked,how long will the wicked celebrate?
4. They spew out threats and speak defiantly;all the evildoers boast.
5. O Lord, they crush your people;they oppress the nation that belongs to you.
6. They kill the widow and the one residing outside his native land,and they murder the fatherless.
7. Then they say, “The Lord does not see this;the God of Jacob does not take notice of it.”
8. Take notice of this, you ignorant people!You fools, when will you ever understand?
9. Does the one who makes the human ear not hear?Does the one who forms the human eye not see?
10. Does the one who disciplines the nations not punish?He is the one who imparts knowledge to human beings!
11. The Lord knows thatpeoples’ thoughts are morally bankrupt.
12. How blessed is the one whom you instruct, O Lord,the one whom you teach from your law,