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 God, of vengeance, Lord! O God of vengeance, shine forth.
2 Be you exalted, you that judge the earth: render a reward to the proud.
Lift up thyself, O judge of the Earth! bring a recompense upon the proud.
3 How long shall sinners, O Lord, how long shall sinners boast?
How long shall the wicked, O Lord—how long shall the wicked exult?
4 They will utter and speak unrighteousness; all the workers of iniquity will speak [so].
They sputter, they speak hard things: all the workers of wickedness boast themselves.
5 They have afflicted your people, O Lord, and hurt your heritage.
Thy people, O Lord! they crush, and thy heritage they afflict.
6 They have slain the widow and fatherless, and murdered the stranger.
The widow and the stranger they slay, and the fatherless they murder.
7 And they said, The Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob understand.
And they say, The Lord will not see, and the God of Jacob will not take notice of it.
8 Understand now, you simple among the people; and you fools, at length be wise.
Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye become intelligent!
9 He that planted the ear, does he not hear? or he that formed the eye, does not he perceive?
He that hath planted the ear, shall he not hear? or he that hath formed the eye, shall he not see?
10 He that chastises the heathen, shall not he punish, [even] he that teaches man knowledge?
He that admonisheth nations, shall he not correct? is it not he that teacheth man knowledge!
11 The Lord knows the thoughts of men, that they are vain.
The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are nought.
12 Blessed is the man whoever you shall chasten, O Lord, and shall teach him out of your law;
Happy is the man whom thou admonisheth, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law:
13 to give him rest from evil days, until a pit be digged for the sinful one.
That thou mayest grant him repose from the days of evil, until the pot be dug for the wicked.
14 For the Lord will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance;
For the Lord will not cast off his people, and his inheritance will he not forsake.
15 until righteousness return to judgment, and all the upright in heart shall follow it. (Pause)
For unto righteousness will justice return; and it shall be followed by all the upright in heart.
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 up for me against evil-doers? or who will stand forward for me against the workers of wickedness?
17 If the Lord had not helped me, my soul had almost sojourned in Hades.
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 said, My foot has been moved;
When I said, My foot hath slipped: thy kindness, O Lord, sustained 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 [painful] thoughts within me, thy consolations delight my soul.
20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with you, which frames mischief by an ordinance?
Can there be associated with thee the throne of destructive wickedness, which frameth mischief as a law?
21 They will hunt for the soul of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood.
They band themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and innocent blood do they condemn.
22 But the Lord was my refuge; and my God the helper of my hope.
But the Lord is become my defence, and my God, the rock of my refuge.
23 And he will recompense to them their iniquity and their wickedness: the Lord our God shall utterly destroy 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.
