## God of Vengeance, Shine Forth 

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O Yahweh, God of vengeance, God of vengeance, shine forth! 

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Be lifted up, O Judge of the earth, Render recompense to the proud. 

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How long shall the wicked, O Yahweh, How long shall the wicked exult? 

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They pour forth _words_, they speak arrogantly; All workers of iniquity vaunt themselves. 

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They crush Your people, O Yahweh, And afflict Your inheritance. 

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They slay the widow and the sojourner And murder the orphans. 

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They have said, "Yah does not see, Nor does the God of Jacob discern." 

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Discern, you senseless among the people; And when will you have insight, _you_ fools? 

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He who planted the ear, does He not hear? He who formed the eye, does He not see? 

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He who disciplines the nations, will He not rebuke, _Even_ He who teaches man knowledge? 

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Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, That they are vanity. 

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Blessed is the man whom You discipline, O Yah, And whom You teach out of Your law; 

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That You may grant him calm from the days of calamity, Until a pit is dug for the wicked. 

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For Yahweh will not abandon His people, Nor will He forsake His inheritance. 

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For judgment will again be righteous, And all the upright in heart will follow it. 

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Who will arise for me against evildoers? Who will take his stand for me against workers of iniquity? 

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If Yahweh had not been my help, My soul would soon have dwelt in _the abode of_ silence. 

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If I should say, "My foot has stumbled," Your lovingkindness, O Yahweh, will hold me up. 

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When my anxious thoughts multiply within me, Your consolations delight my soul. 

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Can a throne of destruction be allied with You, One which forms trouble by statute? 

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They band themselves together against the life of the righteous And condemn the innocent to death. 

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But Yahweh has been my stronghold, And my God the rock of my refuge. 

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He has brought back their iniquity upon them And will destroy them in their evil; Yahweh our God will destroy them.