For you will vindicate your persecuted people, showing your tender love to all your servants.
Here he comes to judge his people! He summons his court with heaven and earth as his jury, saying,
You are Yahweh who judges the people. Vindicate me publicly, Yahweh, and restore my honor and integrity. Declare me innocent.
So they threw away the false gods from among them and returned to worshiping Yahweh. At last, Yahweh felt Israel’s misery and could bear it no longer.
Return to us again, O God! How much longer will it take until you show us your abundant compassion?
For here he comes, the Lord God, and he’s ready to judge the world. He will do what’s right and can be trusted to always do what’s fair.