Psalms 94
1 A Psalm of David for the fourth [day] of the week. The Lord is a God of vengeance; the God of vengeance has declared himself.
O Lord God the auenger, O God the auenger, shewe thy selfe clearely.
2 Be you exalted, you that judge the earth: render a reward to the proud.
Exalt thy selfe, O Iudge of the worlde, and render a reward to the proude.
3 How long shall sinners, O Lord, how long shall sinners boast?
Lord how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?
4 They will utter and speak unrighteousness; all the workers of iniquity will speak [so].
They prate and speake fiercely: all the workers of iniquitie vaunt themselues.
5 They have afflicted your people, O Lord, and hurt your heritage.
They smite downe thy people, O Lord, and trouble thine heritage.
6 They have slain the widow and fatherless, and murdered the stranger.
They slay the widowe and the stranger, and murder the fatherlesse.
7 And they said, The Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob understand.
Yet they say, The Lord shall not see: neither will the God of Iaakob regard it.
8 Understand now, you simple among the people; and you fools, at length be wise.
Vnderstande ye vnwise among the people: and ye fooles, when will ye be wise?
9 He that planted the ear, does he not hear? or he that formed the eye, does not he perceive?
Hee that planted the eare, shall hee not heare? or he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
10 He that chastises the heathen, shall not he punish, [even] he that teaches man knowledge?
Or he that chastiseth the nations, shall he not correct? hee that teacheth man knowledge, shall he not knowe?
11 The Lord knows the thoughts of men, that they are vain.
The Lord knoweth the thoughtes of man, that they are vanitie.
12 Blessed is the man whoever you shall chasten, O Lord, and shall teach him out of your law;
Blessed is the man, whom thou chastisest, O Lord, and teachest him in thy Lawe,
13 to give him rest from evil days, until a pit be digged for the sinful one.
That thou mayest giue him rest from the dayes of euill, whiles the pitte is digged for the wicked.
14 For the Lord will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance;
Surely the Lord will not faile his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
15 until righteousness return to judgment, and all the upright in heart shall follow it. (Pause)
For iudgement shall returne to iustice, and all the vpright in heart shall follow after it.
16 Who will rise up for me against the transgressors? or who will stand up with me against the workers of iniquity?
Who will rise vp with me against the wicked? or who will take my part against the workers of iniquitie?
17 If the Lord had not helped me, my soul had almost sojourned in Hades.
If the Lord had not holpen me, my soule had almost dwelt in silence.
18 If I said, My foot has been moved;
When I said, My foote slideth, thy mercy, O Lord, stayed me.
19 your mercy, O Lord, helped me. O Lord, according to the multitude of my griefs within my heart, your consolation have soothed my soul.
In the multitude of my thoughts in mine heart, thy comfortes haue reioyced my soule.
20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with you, which frames mischief by an ordinance?
Hath the throne of iniquitie fellowship with thee, which forgeth wrong for a Lawe?
21 They will hunt for the soul of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood.
They gather them together against the soule of the righteous, and condemne the innocent blood.
22 But the Lord was my refuge; and my God the helper of my hope.
But the Lord is my refuge, and my God is the rocke of mine hope.
23 And he will recompense to them their iniquity and their wickedness: the Lord our God shall utterly destroy them.
And hee will recompence them their wickednes, and destroy them in their owne malice: yea, the Lord our God shall destroy them.
