
94 - Deus ultionum

1   O Lord God to whom vengeance belongs, 🞙
    O God to whom vengeance belongs, show yourself.

2   Arise, O Judge of the world, 🞙
    and reward the proud according to their deserving.

3   O Lord, how long shall the ungodly, 🞙
    how long shall the ungodly triumph?

4   How long shall all evildoers speak so disdainfully 🞙
    and make such proud boasting?

5   They smite down your people, O Lord, 🞙
    and trouble your heritage.

6   They murder the widow and the stranger, 🞙
    and put the fatherless to death.

7   And yet they say, “The Lord shall not see, 🞙
    neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.”

8   Take heed, you unwise among the people; 🞙
    O you fools, when will you understand?

9   He who planted the ear, shall he not hear? 🞙
    Or he who made the eye, shall he not see?

10  Or he who nurtures the nations, 🞙
    he who teaches humanity knowledge, shall he not punish?

11  The Lord knows the thoughts of man, 🞙
    that they are but vain.

12  Blessed is the one whom you chasten, O Lord, 🞙
    and whom you teach your law,

13  That you may give him patience in time of adversity, 🞙
    until a pit is dug for the ungodly.

14  For the Lord will not fail his people, 🞙
    neither will he forsake his inheritance,

15  But righteousness shall return to the place of judgment, 🞙
    and all those who are true of heart shall follow it.

16  Who will rise up with me against the wicked, 🞙
    or who will take my part against the evildoers?

17  If the Lord had not helped me, 🞙
    my soul would soon have dwelt in the land of silence.

18  But when I said, “My foot has slipped,” 🞙
    your mercy, O Lord, held me up.

19  In the multitude of the sorrows that I had in my heart, 🞙
    your comforts refreshed my soul.

20  Will you have anything to do with the council of wickedness, 🞙
    which turns evil into law?

21  They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous 🞙
    and condemn the innocent to death.

22  But the Lord is my refuge, 🞙
    and my God is the rock of my confidence.

23  He shall recompense them for their wickedness, and destroy them in their own malice; 🞙
    indeed, the Lord our God shall destroy them.
