Psalms 94
1 LORD, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out.
O LORD! thou God of vengeance! O thou God of vengeance! shine forth!
2 Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve.
Rouse thyself, thou judge of the earth! Render a recompense to the proud!
3 LORD, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph?
How long, O LORD! shall the wicked, How long shall the wicked triumph?
4 They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.
How long shall their lips pour forth insolence? How long shall all the evil-doers boast?
5 They break your people in pieces, LORD, and afflict your heritage.
O LORD! they trample upon thy people, And oppress thine inheritance!
6 They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.
They slay the widow, and the stranger, And murder the fatherless;
7 They say, “The LORD will not see, neither will Jacob’s God consider.”
And they say, “The LORD doth not see, The God of Jacob doth not regard!”
8 Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?
Be instructed, ye most stupid of mankind! O when, ye fools, will ye be wise?
9 He who implanted the ear, will not he hear? He who formed the eye, will not he see?
He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? He that formed the eye, shall he not see?
10 He who disciplines the nations, will not he punish? He who teaches man knows.
He that chastiseth nations, shall not he punish? He that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?
11 The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.
The LORD knoweth the thoughts of men, That they are vanity.
12 Blessed is the man whom you discipline, LORD, and teach out of your law,
Happy the man, O LORD! whom thou correctest, Whom by thy teaching thou makest wise;
13 that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.
To give him peace in the days of adversity, Until a pit be digged for the wicked!
14 For the LORD will not reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
For the LORD will not forsake his people, Nor abandon his own inheritance.
15 For judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright in heart shall follow it.
For judgment shall return to justice, And all the upright in heart shall follow it.
16 Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?
Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evil-doers?
17 Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul would have soon lived in silence.
If the LORD had not been my help, I had well nigh dwelt in the land of silence.
18 When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, LORD, held me up.
When I think that my foot is slipping, Thy goodness, O LORD! holdeth me up.
19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul.
In the multitude of anxieties within me, Thy consolations revive my soul.
20 Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute?
Shall with thee be allied the throne of iniquity, Which deviseth mischief against law?
21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
They band together against the life of the righteous, And condemn innocent blood.
22 But the LORD has been my high tower, my God, the rock of my refuge.
But the LORD is my fortress, And my God the rock of my refuge.
23 He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. The LORD, our God, will cut them off.
He will bring upon them their own iniquity; Yea, through their own wickedness he will cut them off; Yea, the LORD, our God, will cut them off.
