Psalms 94
1 O God, of vengeance, Lord! O God of vengeance, shine forth.
Lord, God of vengeance, God of vengeance, shine forth.
2 Lift up thyself, O judge of the Earth! bring a recompense upon the proud.
Rise up, judge of the earth, pay back the proud what they deserve.
3 How long shall the wicked, O Lord—how long shall the wicked exult?
Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult,
4 They sputter, they speak hard things: all the workers of wickedness boast themselves.
with their blustering arrogant words, their braggart and wicked speech,
5 Thy people, O Lord! they crush, and thy heritage they afflict.
crushing your people, Lord, and afflicting your heritage,
6 The widow and the stranger they slay, and the fatherless they murder.
murdering widows and strangers, slaying the fatherless?
7 And they say, The Lord will not see, and the God of Jacob will not take notice of it.
They think that the Lord does not see, nor the God of Jacob regard it.
8 Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye become intelligent!
Take heed, you dullest of people; when will you be wise, you fools?
9 He that hath planted the ear, shall he not hear? or he that hath formed the eye, shall he not see?
Is he deaf, who shaped the ear? Is he blind, who fashioned the eye?
10 He that admonisheth nations, shall he not correct? is it not he that teacheth man knowledge!
Can he who trains nations not punish them he who teaches knowledge to people?
11 The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are nought.
The Lord knows the thoughts of people, that only a breath are they.
12 Happy is the man whom thou admonisheth, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law:
Happy are those whom you chasten, and teach out of your law,
13 That thou mayest grant him repose from the days of evil, until the pot be dug for the wicked.
keeping them calm in the day of misfortune, till a pit be dug for the wicked.
14 For the Lord will not cast off his people, and his inheritance will he not forsake.
For the Lord will not leave his people, he will not forsake his inheritance.
15 For unto righteousness will justice return; and it shall be followed by all the upright in heart.
For the righteous shall come to their rights, and all true-hearted people shall follow them.
16 Who will rise up for me against evil-doers? or who will stand forward for me against the workers of wickedness?
Who will rise up for me against those who do evil? Who will stand up for me against workers of wrong?
17 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.
Were it not for the help of the Lord, I would soon have gone to the silent grave.
18 When I said, My foot hath slipped: thy kindness, O Lord, sustained me.
When I thought that my foot was slipping, your kindness, Lord, held me up.
19 In the multitude of my [painful] thoughts within me, thy consolations delight my soul.
When with cares my heart was crowded, your comforts make me glad.
20 Can there be associated with thee the throne of destructive wickedness, which frameth mischief as a law?
Can corrupt justice be your ally, framing mischief by statute?
21 They band themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and innocent blood do they condemn.
They assail the life of the righteous, and innocent blood condemn.
22 But the Lord is become my defence, and my God, the rock of my refuge.
But the Lord is my sure retreat, my God is the rock of my refuge.
23 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.
He will bring back their sin upon them, for their wickedness he will destroy them; the Lord our God will destroy them.
