1: GOD, put an end to evil; avenging God, show your colors!
2: Judge of the earth, take your stand; throw the book at the arrogant.
3: GOD, the wicked get away with murder--how long will you let this go on?
4: They brag and boast and crow about their crimes!
5: They walk all over your people, GOD, exploit and abuse your precious people.
6: They take out anyone who gets in their way; if they can't use them, they kill them.
7: They think, "GOD isn't looking, Jacob's God is out to lunch."
8: Well, think again, you idiots, fools--how long before you get smart?
9: Do you think Ear-Maker doesn't hear, Eye-Shaper doesn't see?
10: Do you think the trainer of nations doesn't correct, the teacher of Adam doesn't know?
11: GOD knows, all right--knows your stupidity, sees your shallowness.
12: How blessed the man you train, GOD, the woman you instruct in your Word,
13: Providing a circle of quiet within the clamor of evil, while a jail is being built for the wicked.
14: GOD will never walk away from his people, never desert his precious people.
15: Rest assured that justice is on its way and every good heart put right.
16: Who stood up for me against the wicked? Who took my side against evil workers?
17: If GOD hadn't been there for me, I never would have made it.
18: The minute I said, "I'm slipping, I'm falling," your love, GOD, took hold and held me fast.
19: When I was upset and beside myself, you calmed me down and cheered me up.
20: Can Misrule have anything in common with you? Can Troublemaker pretend to be on your side?
21: They ganged up on good people, plotted behind the backs of the innocent.
22: But GOD became my hideout, God was my high mountain retreat,
23: Then boomeranged their evil back on them: for their evil ways he wiped them out, our GOD cleaned them out for good.