Your arm is powerful, your hand strong, your right hand victorious.

Yes, we are consumed by your anger; we are terrified by your wrath.

Certainly you will see it with your very own eyes – you will see the wicked paid back.

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

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

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

For I eat ashes as if they were bread, and mix my drink with my tears,

to those who keep his covenant, who are careful to obey his commands.

Sing to him! Make music to him! Tell about all his miraculous deeds!

He let no one oppress them; he disciplined kings for their sake,

He called down a famine upon the earth; he cut off all the food supply.

Yes, he remembered the sacred promise he made to Abraham his servant.

Phinehas took a stand and intervened, and the plague subsided.

They did not destroy the nations, as the Lord had commanded them to do.

Yet he took notice of their distress, when he heard their cry for help.

He caused all their conquerors to have pity on them.

Let them present thank offerings, and loudly proclaim what he has done!

They cultivated fields, and planted vineyards, which yielded a harvest of fruit.

They repay me evil for good, and hate for love.

The sea looked and fled; the Jordan River turned back.