Extreme situations ask for extreme measures:
Hymn to Nemesis
By Mesomedes of Crete (2nd c. AD)
Translated by A.Z. Foreman
Nemesis, winged tilter of scales and lives,
Justice-spawned Goddess with steel-blue eyes!
You bridle vain men who roil in vain
Against Your adamantine rein.
Great hater of hubris and megalomania,
Obliterator of black resentment,
By Your trackless, churning, wracking wheel
Man’s glinting fortunes turn on earth.
You come in oblivion’s cloak to bend
The grandeur-deluded rebel neck,
With forearm measuring out lifetimes,
With brow frowning into the heart of man
And the yoke raised sovereign in Your hand.
Hail in the highest, O justice-queen
Nemesis, winged tilter of scales and lives,
Immortal Judge! I sing Your song,
Almighty Triumph on proud-spread wings,
Lieutenant of fairness, Requiter of wrongs.
Despise the lordly with all Your art
And lay them low in the Netherdark.
When it comes to Zeus, here are the useful epithets:
Labrandeus (raging/furious)
Palamnaeus (punisher of murderers)
Laoites (of the people)
Sosipolis (city-savior)
Eleuthereus (of freedom)
I don’t know of any useful full hymn but consider writing/improvising your own with those attributes.
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Nemesis, 1837
Alfred Rethel
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The Greek Goddess Nemesis, whose name means ’dispenser of dues’, is a Goddess of divine retribution, a paragon of Justice, and a punisher of those who succumb to their hubris (arrogance against the Gods).
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everything has reason in time.
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