Psalms 94
1 God of vengeance—YHWH! God of vengeance, shine forth.
O God, of vengeance, Lord! O God of vengeance, shine forth.
2 Be lifted up, judging the earth, Send back a repayment on the proud.
Lift up thyself, O judge of the Earth! bring a recompense upon the proud.
3 Until when do the wicked, O YHWH—Until when do the wicked exult?
How long shall the wicked, O Lord—how long shall the wicked exult?
4 They utter—they speak arrogance, All working iniquity boast [about] themselves.
They sputter, they speak hard things: all the workers of wickedness boast themselves.
5 Your people, O YHWH, they bruise, And they afflict Your inheritance.
Thy people, O Lord! they crush, and thy heritage they afflict.
6 They slay widow and sojourner, And they murder fatherless ones.
The widow and the stranger they slay, and the fatherless they murder.
7 And they say, “YAH does not see, And the God of Jacob does not consider.”
And they say, The Lord will not see, and the God of Jacob will not take notice of it.
8 Consider, you brutish among the people, And you foolish, when do you act wisely?
Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye become intelligent!
9 He who plants the ear, does He not hear? He who forms the eye, does He not see?
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 instructing nations, does He not reprove? He who is teaching man knowledge [is] YHWH.
He that admonisheth nations, shall he not correct? is it not he that teacheth man knowledge!
11 He knows the thoughts of man, that they [are] vanity.
The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are nought.
12 O the blessedness of the man Whom You instruct, O YAH, And 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 rest to him from days of evil, While a pit is dug for the wicked.
That thou mayest grant him repose from the days of evil, until the pot be dug for the wicked.
14 For YHWH does not leave His people, And does not forsake His inheritance.
For the Lord will not cast off his people, and his inheritance will he not forsake.
15 For judgment turns back to righteousness, And after it all the upright of heart.
For unto righteousness will justice return; and it shall be followed by all the upright in heart.
16 Who rises up for me with evildoers? Who stations himself for me with 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 Unless YHWH [were] a help to me, My soul had almost inhabited silence.
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 have said, “My foot has slipped,” Your kindness, O YHWH, supports me.
When I said, My foot hath slipped: thy kindness, O Lord, sustained me.
19 In the abundance of my thoughts within me, Your comforts delight my soul.
In the multitude of my [painful] thoughts within me, thy consolations delight my soul.
20 Is a throne of mischief joined [with] You? A framer of perverseness by statute?
Can there be associated with thee the throne of destructive wickedness, which frameth mischief as a law?
21 They decree against the soul of the righteous, And declare innocent blood wicked.
They band themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and innocent blood do they condemn.
22 And YHWH is for a high place to me, And my God [is] for a rock—my refuge,
But the Lord is become my defence, and my God, the rock of my refuge.
23 And He turns back their iniquity on them, And in their wickedness cuts them off; Our God YHWH cuts them off!
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.
