^t“Those who have never been told of him will see,

and those who have never heard will understand.”

1  ^xMake haste, O God, to deliver me!

O Lord, ^ymake haste to help me!

2  ^zLet them be put to shame and confusion

who seek my life!

Let them be turned back and brought to dishonor

who delight in my hurt!

3  Let them turn back because of their shame

who say, ^a“Aha, Aha!”

4  May all who seek you

rejoice and be ^bglad in you!

May those who love your salvation

say evermore, “God is great!”

5  But ^cI am poor and needy;

hasten to me, O God!

You are my help and my deliverer;

O Lord, do not delay!

1  ^d“Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak,

and let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

2  May my teaching drop as the rain,

my speech distill as the dew,

like gentle rain upon the tender grass,

and like showers upon the herb.

3  For I will ^eproclaim the name of the Lord;

ascribe greatness to our God!

4  “The ^fRock, ^ghis work is perfect,

for ^hall his ways are justice.

A God of ⁱfaithfulness and without iniquity,

just and upright is he.

5  They have dealt corruptly with him;

^jthey are no longer his children because they are blemished;

they are a crooked and twisted generation.

6  Do you thus repay the Lord,

you foolish and senseless people?

Is not he your ^kfather, who created you,

who made you and established you?

7  Remember the ^ldays of old;

consider the years of many generations;

ask your father, and he will show you,

your elders, and they will tell you.

8  When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance,

when he divided mankind,

^mhe fixed the borders¹ of the peoples

according to the number of the sons of God.²

9  But the Lord’s portion is his people,

Jacob his allotted ⁿheritage.

10  “He found him in a desert land,

and in the howling waste of the wilderness;

he encircled him, he cared for him,

he kept him as the ^oapple of his eye.

11  Like an eagle that stirs up its nest,

that flutters over its young,

spreading out its wings, catching them,

^pbearing them on its pinions,

12  the Lord alone ^qguided him,

no foreign god was with him.

13  He ^rmade him ride on the high places of the land,

and he ate the produce of the field,

and he suckled him with ^shoney out of the rock,

and ^toil out of the flinty rock.

14  Curds from the herd, and milk from the flock,

with fat³ of lambs,

rams of Bashan and goats,

with the very finest⁴ of the wheat—

and you drank foaming wine made from the ^ublood of the grape.

15  “But ^vJeshurun ^wgrew fat, and kicked;

you grew fat, stout, and sleek;

then he forsook God who made him

and scoffed at the ^xRock of his salvation.

16  ^yThey stirred him to jealousy with strange gods;

with abominations they provoked him to anger.

17  They ^zsacrificed to demons that were not God,

to gods they had never known,

to ^anew gods that had come recently,

whom your fathers had never dreaded.

18  You were unmindful of the Rock that bore⁵ you,

and you forgot the God who gave you birth.

19  “The Lord saw it and spurned them,

because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.

20  And he said, ‘I will hide my face from them;

I will see what their end will be,

for they are a perverse generation,

children in whom is no faithfulness.

21  They have made me jealous with what is no god;

they have provoked me to anger with their idols.

So ^bI will make them jealous with those who are no people;

I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

22  For ^ca fire is kindled by my anger,

and it burns to the depths of Sheol,

devours the earth and its increase,

and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

23  “‘And I will heap disasters upon them;

I will spend my arrows on them;

24  they shall be wasted with hunger,

and devoured by plague

and poisonous pestilence;

I will send the teeth of ^dbeasts against them,

with the venom of things that crawl in the dust.

25  ^eOutdoors the sword shall bereave,

and indoors terror,

for young man and woman alike,

the nursing child with the man of gray hairs.

26  I would have said, “I will cut them to pieces;

I will wipe them from human memory,”

27  had I not feared provocation by the enemy,

lest their adversaries should misunderstand,

lest they should say, “Our hand is triumphant,

it was not the Lord who did all this.”’

28  “For they are a nation void of counsel,

and there is ^fno understanding in them.

29  If they were wise, they would understand this;

they would discern their latter end!

30  How could ^gone have chased a thousand,

and two have put ten thousand to flight,

unless their Rock had ^hsold them,

and the Lord had given them up?

31  For their rock is not as our Rock;

our enemies are by themselves.

32  For their vine comes from the vine of Sodom

and from the fields of Gomorrah;

their grapes are grapes of poison;

their clusters are bitter;

33  their wine is the poison of serpents

and the cruel venom of asps.

34  “‘Is not this laid up in store with me,

sealed up in my treasuries?

35  ⁱVengeance is mine, and recompense,⁶

for the time when their foot shall slip;

for the day of their calamity is at hand,

and their doom comes swiftly.’

36  For ^jthe Lord will vindicate⁷ his people

and have compassion on his servants,

when he sees that their power is gone

and there is none remaining, ^kbond or free.

37  Then he will say, ^l‘Where are their gods,

the rock in which they took refuge,

38  who ate the fat of their sacrifices

and drank the wine of their drink offering?

^mLet them rise up and help you;

let them be your protection!

39  “‘See now that ⁿI, even I, am he,

and there is no god beside me;

^oI kill and I make alive;

^pI wound and I heal;

and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

40  For I lift up my hand to heaven

and swear, As I live forever,

41  if I sharpen my flashing sword⁸

and my hand takes hold on judgment,

I will take vengeance on my adversaries

and will repay those who hate me.

42  I will make my arrows drunk with blood,

and my sword shall devour flesh—

with the blood of the slain and the captives,

from the long-haired heads of the enemy.’

43  “Rejoice with him, O heavens;⁹

bow down to him, all gods,¹⁰

for he avenges the blood of his children¹¹

and takes vengeance on his adversaries.

He repays those who hate him¹²

and cleanses¹³ his people’s land.”¹⁴