Psalms 94
1 Jehovah, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine forth.
O GOD of avenging—Yahweh, GOD of avenging, shine forth:
2 Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve.
Lift up thyself, O judge of the earth, Render a recompense unto the proud.
3 Jehovah, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph?
How long shall the lawless, O Yahweh, How long shall the lawless exult?
4 They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.
They pour forth [words], they speak arrogantly, All the workers of iniquity, do boast:
5 They break your people in pieces, Jehovah, and afflict your heritage.
Thy people, O Yahweh, they will crush, And, thine inheritance, tread down;
6 They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.
The widow and sojourner, they will slay, And, the fatherless, murder.
7 They say, "JAH will not see, neither will Jacob's God consider."
Yet have they said—Yah, doth not see, The God of Jacob, doth not understand.
8 Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?
Understand, ye brutish among the people, And, ye dullards, when will ye show discretion?
9 He who implanted the ear, won't he hear? He who formed the eye, won't he see?
He that planteth the ear, shall he not hear? Or, that fashioneth the eye, shall he not have power to see?
10 He who disciplines the nations, won't he punish? He who teaches man knows.
He that correcteth nations, shall he not reprove? He that teacheth man knowledge!
11 Jehovah knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.
Yahweh, knoweth the plans of men, That, they, are a breath!
12 Blessed is the man whom you discipline, JAH, and teach out of your Law;
How happy the man whom thou correctest, O Yah! And whom, out of thy law, thou instructest!
13 that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.
That thou mayest give him rest from the days of misfortune, Until there be digged—for the lawless one—a pit.
14 For Jehovah won't reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
For Yahweh, will not abandon, his people, And, his inheritance, will he not forsake;
15 For judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright in heart shall follow it.
For, unto righteousness, shall the judicial sentence return, Then shall follow it—all the upright in heart.
16 Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?
Who will rise up for me, against the evil-doers? Who will make a stand for me, against the workers of iniquity?
17 Unless Jehovah had been my help, my soul would have soon lived in silence.
If, Yahweh, had not been a help to me, Soon had sunk into silence—my soul!
18 When I said, "My foot is slipping." Your loving kindness, Jehovah, held me up.
If I say, My foot, hath slipped, Thy lovingkindness, O Yahweh, supporteth me.
19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul.
In the multitude of my cares within me, Thy consolations, delight my soul.
20 Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute?
Shall the throne that inflicteth ruin, have fellowship with thee, That frameth oppression, by statute?
21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
They make an attack on the life of the righteous one, —And, innocent blood, they condemn.
22 But Jehovah has been my high tower, my God, the rock of my refuge.
But, Yahweh, hath become for me a high tower, And my God, my rock of refuge.
23 He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. Jehovah, our God, will cut them off.
Thus hath he brought back on them their iniquity, And, by their own wickedness, will he destroy them, Destroy them, will Yahweh our God.
