| English Standard Version | NET Bible |
| 1O LORD, God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, shine forth! | 1O LORD, the God who avenges! O God who avenges, reveal your splendor! |
| 2Rise up, O judge of the earth; repay to the proud what they deserve! | 2Rise up, O judge of the earth! Pay back the proud! |
| 3O LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult? | 3O LORD, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked celebrate? |
| 4They pour out their arrogant words; all the evildoers boast. | 4They spew out threats and speak defiantly; all the evildoers boast. |
| 5They crush your people, O LORD, and afflict your heritage. | 5O LORD, they crush your people; they oppress the nation that belongs to you. |
| 6They kill the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless; | 6They kill the widow and the one residing outside his native land, and they murder the fatherless. |
| 7and they say, “The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob does not perceive.” | 7Then they say, "The LORD does not see this; the God of Jacob does not take notice of it." |
| 8Understand, O dullest of the people! Fools, when will you be wise? | 8Take notice of this, you ignorant people! You fools, when will you ever understand? |
| 9He who planted the ear, does he not hear? He who formed the eye, does he not see? | 9Does the one who makes the human ear not hear? Does the one who forms the human eye not see? |
| 10He who disciplines the nations, does he not rebuke? He who teaches man knowledge— | 10Does the one who disciplines the nations not punish? He is the one who imparts knowledge to human beings! |
| 11the LORD—knows the thoughts of man, that they are but a breath. | 11The LORD knows that peoples' thoughts are morally bankrupt. |
| 12Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O LORD, and whom you teach out of your law, | 12How blessed is the one whom you instruct, O LORD, the one whom you teach from your law, |
| 13to give him rest from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked. | 13in order to protect him from times of trouble, until the wicked are destroyed. |
| 14For the LORD will not forsake his people; he will not abandon his heritage; | 14Certainly the LORD does not forsake his people; he does not abandon the nation that belongs to him. |
| 15for justice will return to the righteous, and all the upright in heart will follow it. | 15For justice will prevail, and all the morally upright will be vindicated. |
| 16Who rises up for me against the wicked? Who stands up for me against evildoers? | 16Who will rise up to defend me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evildoers? |
| 17If the LORD had not been my help, my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence. | 17If the LORD had not helped me, I would have laid down in the silence of death. |
| 18When I thought, “My foot slips,” your steadfast love, O LORD, held me up. | 18If I say, "My foot is slipping," your loyal love, O LORD, supports me. |
| 19When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul. | 19When worries threaten to overwhelm me, your soothing touch makes me happy. |
| 20Can wicked rulers be allied with you, those who frame injustice by statute? | 20Cruel rulers are not your allies, those who make oppressive laws. |
| 21They band together against the life of the righteous and condemn the innocent to death. | 21They conspire against the blameless, and condemn to death the innocent. |
| 22But the LORD has become my stronghold, and my God the rock of my refuge. | 22But the LORD will protect me, and my God will shelter me. |
| 23He will bring back on them their iniquity and wipe them out for their wickedness; the LORD our God will wipe them out. | 23He will pay them back for their sin. He will destroy them because of their evil; the LORD our God will destroy them. |
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