Psalms 94
1 God of vengeance—YHWH! God of vengeance, shine forth.
O LORD! thou God of vengeance! O thou God of vengeance! shine forth!
2 Be lifted up, judging the earth, Send back a repayment on the proud.
Rouse thyself, thou judge of the earth! Render a recompense to the proud!
3 Until when do the wicked, O YHWH—Until when do the wicked exult?
How long, O LORD! shall the wicked, How long shall the wicked triumph?
4 They utter—they speak arrogance, All working iniquity boast [about] themselves.
How long shall their lips pour forth insolence? How long shall all the evil-doers boast?
5 Your people, O YHWH, they bruise, And they afflict Your inheritance.
O LORD! they trample upon thy people, And oppress thine inheritance!
6 They slay widow and sojourner, And they murder fatherless ones.
They slay the widow, and the stranger, And murder the fatherless;
7 And they say, “YAH does not see, And the God of Jacob does not consider.”
And they say, “The LORD doth not see, The God of Jacob doth not regard!”
8 Consider, you brutish among the people, And you foolish, when do you act wisely?
Be instructed, ye most stupid of mankind! O when, ye fools, will ye be wise?
9 He who plants the ear, does He not hear? He who forms the eye, does He not see?
He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? He that 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 chastiseth nations, shall not he punish? He that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?
11 He knows the thoughts of man, that they [are] vanity.
The LORD knoweth the thoughts of men, That they are vanity.
12 O the blessedness of the man Whom You instruct, O YAH, And teach him out of Your law,
Happy the man, O LORD! whom thou correctest, Whom by thy teaching thou makest wise;
13 To give rest to him from days of evil, While a pit is dug for the wicked.
To give him peace in the days of adversity, Until a pit be digged for the wicked!
14 For YHWH does not leave His people, And does not forsake His inheritance.
For the LORD will not forsake his people, Nor abandon his own inheritance.
15 For judgment turns back to righteousness, And after it all the upright of heart.
For judgment shall return to justice, And all the upright in heart shall follow it.
16 Who rises up for me with evildoers? Who stations himself for me with workers of iniquity?
Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evil-doers?
17 Unless YHWH [were] a help to me, My soul had almost inhabited silence.
If the LORD had not been my help, I had well nigh dwelt in the land of silence.
18 If I have said, “My foot has slipped,” Your kindness, O YHWH, supports me.
When I think that my foot is slipping, Thy goodness, O LORD! holdeth me up.
19 In the abundance of my thoughts within me, Your comforts delight my soul.
In the multitude of anxieties within me, Thy consolations revive my soul.
20 Is a throne of mischief joined [with] You? A framer of perverseness by statute?
Shall with thee be allied the throne of iniquity, Which deviseth mischief against law?
21 They decree against the soul of the righteous, And declare innocent blood wicked.
They band together against the life of the righteous, And condemn innocent blood.
22 And YHWH is for a high place to me, And my God [is] for a rock—my refuge,
But the LORD is my fortress, 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!
He will bring upon them their own iniquity; Yea, through their own wickedness he will cut them off; Yea, the LORD, our God, will cut them off.
