1 Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs,
you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out.
2 Rise up, you judge of the earth.
Pay back the proud what they deserve.
3 Yahweh, how long will the wicked,
how long will the wicked triumph?
4 They pour out arrogant words.
All the evildoers boast.
5 They break your people in pieces, Yahweh,
and afflict your heritage.
6 They kill the widow and the alien,
and murder the fatherless.
7 They say, "Yah will not see,
neither will Jacob’s God consider."
8 Consider, you senseless among the people;
you fools, when will you be wise?
9 He who implanted the ear, won’t he hear?
He who formed the eye, won’t he see?
10 He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish?
He who teaches man knows.
11 Yahweh knows the thoughts of man,
that they are futile.
12 Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah,
and teach out of your law,
13 that you may give him rest from the days of adversity,
until the pit is dug for the wicked.
14 For Yahweh won’t reject his people,
neither will he forsake his inheritance.
15 For judgment will return to righteousness.
All the upright in heart shall follow it.
16 Who will rise up for me against the wicked?
Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?
17 Unless Yahweh had been my help,
my soul would have soon lived in silence.
18 When I said, "My foot is slipping!"
Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.
19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me,
your comforts delight my soul.
20 Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you,
which brings about mischief by statute?
21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous,
and condemn the innocent blood.
22 But Yahweh has been my high tower,
my God, the rock of my refuge.
23 He has brought on them their own iniquity,
and will cut them off in their own wickedness.
Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.
1 God van wraak, o HERE, God van wraak, verskyn in ligglans!
2 Verhef U, o regter van die aarde, vergeld die trotsaards hulle dade!
3 Hoe lank sal die goddelose, o HERE, hoe lank sal die goddelose jubel?
4 Hulle smaal, hulle praat onbeskaamd -- al die werkers van ongeregtigheid verhef hulle.
5 o HERE, hulle verbrysel u volk, en hulle verdruk u erfdeel.
6 Hulle maak die weduwee en die vreemdeling dood en vermoor die wese
7 en sê: Die HERE sien dit nie, en die God van Jakob merk dit nie.
8 Let op, o onverstandiges onder die volk, en julle dwase, wanneer sal julle verstandig word?
9 Sou Hy wat die oor plant, nie hoor nie, of Hy wat die oog formeer, nie sien nie?
10 Sou Hy wat die nasies tugtig, nie straf nie -- Hy wat die mens kennis leer?
11 Die HERE ken die gedagtes van die mense -- dat hulle nietigheid is.
12 Welgeluksalig is die man, o HERE, wat U onderrig en wat U leer uit u wet,
13 om hom rus te gee van die dae van teëspoed, totdat die kuil vir die goddelose gegrawe word.
14 Want die HERE sal sy volk nie verwerp en sal sy erfdeel nie verlaat nie;
15 want die regspraak sal terugkeer tot geregtigheid, en al die opregtes van hart sal dit volg.
16 Wie sal vir my optree teen die kwaaddoeners? Wie sal my bystaan teen die werkers van ongeregtigheid?
17 As die HERE vir my nie 'n hulp was nie, dan het my siel gou in die stilte gewoon.
18 As ek dink: My voet wankel -- dan ondersteun u goedertierenheid my, o HERE!
19 As my gedagtes binne-in my vermenigvuldig, dan verkwik u vertroostinge my siel.
20 Het die regterstoel wat onheil stig, met U gemeenskap; wat moeite versin teen die insettinge in?
21 Hulle bestorm die lewe van die regverdige en veroordeel onskuldige bloed.
22 Maar die HERE is 'n rotsvesting vir my, en my God die rots van my toevlug.
23 En Hy laat hulle ongeregtigheid op hulle terugkeer en verdelg hulle in hul boosheid; die HERE onse God verdelg hulle.