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 They bluster in their insolence; * all evildoers are full of boasting.

They crush your people, O, * and afflict your chosen nation.

They murder the widow and the stranger * and put the orphans to death.

Yet they say, “The does not see, * the God of Jacob takes no notice.”

Consider well, you dullards among the people; * when will you fools understand?

He that planted the ear, does he not hear? * he that formed the eye, does he not see?

He who admonishes the nations, will he not punish? * he who teaches all the world, has he no knowledge?

The knows our human thoughts; * how like a puff of wind they are.

Happy are they whom you instruct, O Lord! * whom you teach out of your law;

To give them rest in evil days, * until a pit is dug for the wicked.

For the will not abandon his people, * nor will he forsake his own.

For judgment will again be just, * and all the true of heart will follow it.

Who rose up for me against the wicked? * who took my part against the evildoers?

If the had not come to my help, * I should soon have dwelt in the land of silence.