Does the one who makes the human ear not hear? Does the one who forms the human eye not see?

Who will rise up to defend me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?

O Lord, the God who avenges! O God who avenges, reveal your splendor!

If I say, "My foot is slipping," your loyal love, O Lord, supports me.

How blessed is the one whom you instruct, O Lord, the one whom you teach from your law,

When worries threaten to overwhelm me, your soothing touch makes me happy.

But the Lord will protect me, and my God will shelter me.

The Lord knows that peoples' thoughts are morally bankrupt.

Certainly the Lord does not forsake his people; he does not abandon the nation that belongs to him.

Cruel rulers are not your allies, those who make oppressive laws.

If the Lord had not helped me, I would have laid down in the silence of death.

Take notice of this, you ignorant people! You fools, when will you ever understand?

O Lord, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked celebrate?

Rise up, O judge of the earth! Pay back the proud!

They spew out threats and speak defiantly; all the evildoers boast.

Then they say, "The Lord does not see this; the God of Jacob does not take notice of it."

Does the one who disciplines the nations not punish? He is the one who imparts knowledge to human beings!

They kill the widow and the one residing outside his native land, and they murder the fatherless.

He will pay them back for their sin. He will destroy them because of their evil; the Lord our God will destroy them.

O Lord, they crush your people; they oppress the nation that belongs to you.

For justice will prevail, and all the morally upright will be vindicated.

They conspire against the blameless, and condemn to death the innocent.

in order to protect him from times of trouble, until the wicked are destroyed.