Saint of the day · April 10

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.