Psalms 94
1 O God, in whose hands is punishment, O God of punishment, let your shining face be seen.
O God, of vengeance, Lord! O God of vengeance, shine forth.
2 Be lifted up, O judge of the earth; let their reward come to the men of pride.
Lift up thyself, O judge of the Earth! bring a recompense upon the proud.
3 How long will sinners, O Lord, how long will sinners have joy over us?
How long shall the wicked, O Lord—how long shall the wicked exult?
4 Words of pride come from their lips; all the workers of evil say great things of themselves.
They sputter, they speak hard things: all the workers of wickedness boast themselves.
5 Your people are crushed by them, O Lord, your heritage is troubled,
Thy people, O Lord! they crush, and thy heritage they afflict.
6 They put to death the widow and the guest, they take the lives of children who have no father;
The widow and the stranger they slay, and the fatherless they murder.
7 And they say, Jah will not see it, the God of Jacob will not give thought to it.
And they say, The Lord will not see, and the God of Jacob will not take notice of it.
8 Give your mind to my words, you who are without wisdom among the people; you foolish men, when will you be wise?
Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye become intelligent!
9 Has he by whom your ears were planted no hearing? or is he blind by whom your eyes were formed?
He that hath planted the ear, shall he not hear? or he that hath formed the eye, shall he not see?
10 He who is the judge of the nations, will he not give men the reward of their acts, even he who gives knowledge to man?
He that admonisheth nations, shall he not correct? is it not he that teacheth man knowledge!
11 The Lord has knowledge of the thoughts of man, for they are only a breath.
The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are nought.
12 Happy is the man who is guided by you, O Jah, and to whom you give teaching out of your law;
Happy is the man whom thou admonisheth, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law:
13 So that you may give him rest from the days of evil, till a hole is made ready for the destruction of the sinners.
That thou mayest grant him repose from the days of evil, until the pot be dug for the wicked.
14 The Lord will not give up his people, or take away his support from his heritage;
For the Lord will not cast off his people, and his inheritance will he not forsake.
15 But decisions will again be made in righteousness; and they will be kept by all whose hearts are true.
For unto righteousness will justice return; and it shall be followed by all the upright in heart.
16 Who will give me help against the sinners? and who will be my support against the workers of evil?
Who will rise up for me against evil-doers? or who will stand forward for me against the workers of wickedness?
17 If the Lord had not been my helper, my soul would quickly have gone down into death.
Unless the Lord had been a help unto me, but a little would have been wanting that my soul had dwelt in the silence of death.
18 If I say, My foot is slipping; your mercy, O Lord, is my support.
When I said, My foot hath slipped: thy kindness, O Lord, sustained me.
19 Among all my troubled thoughts, your comforts are the delight of my soul.
In the multitude of my [painful] thoughts within me, thy consolations delight my soul.
20 What part with you has the seat of sin, which makes evil into a law?
Can there be associated with thee the throne of destructive wickedness, which frameth mischief as a law?
21 They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.
They band themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and innocent blood do they condemn.
22 But the Lord is my safe resting-place; my God is the Rock where I am safe.
But the Lord is become my defence, and my God, the rock of my refuge.
23 And he has made their evil designs come back on themselves, cutting them off in their sin; the Lord our God will put an end to them.
And he will bring back upon them their own injustice, and in their own wickedness will he destroy them: [yea], he will destroy them—the Lord our God.
