Psalms 54:5

He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.

“Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans. For you will no longer be called tender and delicate.

you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your servant girl. You have freed me from my chains.

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

Solomon loved Yahweh, walking in the statutes of David his father; except that he sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.

then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.

The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

Show me your ways, Yahweh. Teach me your paths.

Evil shall kill the wicked. Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.

I will sing of the loving kindness of Yahweh forever. With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.

Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore to David in your faithfulness?

Yahweh is on my side among those who help me. Therefore I will look in triumph at those who hate me.

I declared my ways, and you answered me. Teach me your statutes.

See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.

In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies, and destroy all those who afflict my soul, For I am your servant.

Shout against her all around. She has submitted herself. Her bulwarks have fallen. Her walls have been thrown down, for it is the vengeance of Yahweh. Take vengeance on her. As she has done, do to her.

“Call together the archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp against her all around. Let none of it escape. Pay her back according to her work. According to all that she has done, do to her; for she has been proud against Yahweh, against the Holy One of Israel.

of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.

Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me your way, now, that I may know you, so that I may find favor in your sight; and consider that this nation is your people.”

The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers. Every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father in killing his seventy brothers;

May Yahweh judge between me and you, and may Yahweh avenge me of you; but my hand will not be on you.

but the children of the murderers he didn’t put to death; according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, as Yahweh commanded, saying, “The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin.”

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.

For you meet him with the blessings of goodness. You set a crown of fine gold on his head.

My foot stands in an even place. In the congregations I will bless Yahweh.

Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings. Give them according to the operation of their hands. Bring back on them what they deserve.

Sing praise to Yahweh, you saints of his. Give thanks to his holy name.

For he has delivered me out of all trouble. My eye has seen triumph over my enemies.

Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me. Turn your ear to me, and save me.

My eye has also seen my enemies. My ears have heard of the wicked enemies who rise up against me.

Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve.

You who love Yahweh, hate evil! He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

His heart is established. He will not be afraid in the end when he sees his adversaries.

Yahweh preserves all those who love him, but he will destroy all the wicked.

I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

“Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh’s hand double for all her sins.”

First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.”

But Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have revealed my cause to you.

All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.”

he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger. He will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.

The great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered in the sight of God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.

The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of the sexual immorality of the earth.

Thus Yahweh saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.

then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

Though men may rise up to pursue you, and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord will be bound in the bundle of life with Yahweh your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies, as from the hollow of a sling.

David said, “As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.

I am weak today, though anointed king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah are too hard for me. May Yahweh reward the evildoer according to his wickedness.”

but my loving kindness will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you.

Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our possessions.

the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jews’ enemy, but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.

In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Let me never be disappointed. Deliver me in your righteousness.

Oh fear Yahweh, you his saints, for there is no lack with those who fear him.

God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living.

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness, for you reward every man according to his work.

They plot injustice, saying, “We have made a perfect plan!” Surely man’s mind and heart are cunning.

But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.

Yahweh, you know. Remember me, visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors. You are patient, so don’t take me away. Know that for your sake I have suffered reproach.

Therefore Yahweh says: “You have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim to you a liberty,” says Yahweh, “to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine. I will make you be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.

“I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight,” says Yahweh.

You will pay them back, Yahweh, according to the work of their hands.

The king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions mauled them, and broke all their bones in pieces, before they came to the bottom of the den.

For the day of Yahweh is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head.

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I don’t say that he should make a request concerning this.

They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”

“Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her.”

You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’ Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.

Lead me, Yahweh, in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your way straight before my face.

Teach me your way, Yahweh. Lead me in a straight path, because of my enemies.

Oh love Yahweh, all you his saints! Yahweh preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.

My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.

My God will go before me with his loving kindness. God will let me look at my enemies in triumph.

He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.

Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, he will be happy who repays you, as you have done to us.

Hear my prayer, Yahweh. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.

Alexander, the coppersmith, did much evil to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds,

Return to her just as she returned, and repay her double as she did, and according to her works. In the cup which she mixed, mix to her double.