Psalms 94
1 Yahweh, God who avenges, God who avenges, shine over us.
O Lord God the auenger, O God the auenger, shewe thy selfe clearely.
2 Rise up, judge of the earth, give to the proud what they deserve.
Exalt thy selfe, O Iudge of the worlde, and render a reward to the proude.
3 How long will the wicked, Yahweh, how long will the wicked rejoice?
Lord how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?
4 They pour out their arrogant words; all those who do evil boast.
They prate and speake fiercely: all the workers of iniquitie vaunt themselues.
5 They crush your people, Yahweh; they afflict the nation that belongs to you.
They smite downe thy people, O Lord, and trouble thine heritage.
6 They kill the widow and foreigner who lives in their country, and they murder the fatherless.
They slay the widowe and the stranger, and murder the fatherlesse.
7 They say, “Yahweh will not see, the God of Jacob does not take notice of it.”
Yet they say, The Lord shall not see: neither will the God of Iaakob regard it.
8 Understand, you stupid people! You fools, when will you ever learn?
Vnderstande ye vnwise among the people: and ye fooles, when will ye be wise?
9 He who made the ear, does he not hear? He who formed the eye, does he not see?
Hee that planted the eare, shall hee not heare? or he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
10 He who disciplines the nations, does he not correct? He is the one who gives knowledge to man.
Or he that chastiseth the nations, shall he not correct? hee that teacheth man knowledge, shall he not knowe?
11 Yahweh knows the thoughts of men, that they are vapor.
The Lord knoweth the thoughtes of man, that they are vanitie.
12 Blessed is the one whom you instruct, Yahweh, the one whom you teach from your law.
Blessed is the man, whom thou chastisest, O Lord, and teachest him in thy Lawe,
13 You give him rest in times of trouble until a pit is dug for the wicked.
That thou mayest giue him rest from the dayes of euill, whiles the pitte is digged for the wicked.
14 For Yahweh will not forsake his people or abandon his inheritance.
Surely the Lord will not faile his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
15 For judgment will again be righteous; and all the upright in heart will follow it.
For iudgement shall returne to iustice, and all the vpright in heart shall follow after it.
16 Who will rise up to defend me against the evildoers? Who will stand up for me against the wicked?
Who will rise vp with me against the wicked? or who will take my part against the workers of iniquitie?
17 Unless Yahweh had been my help, I would soon be lying down in the place of silence.
If the Lord had not holpen me, my soule had almost dwelt in silence.
18 When I said, “My foot is slipping,” Your covenant faithfulness, Yahweh, held me up.
When I said, My foote slideth, thy mercy, O Lord, stayed me.
19 When cares within me are many, your consolations make me happy.
In the multitude of my thoughts in mine heart, thy comfortes haue reioyced my soule.
20 Can a throne of destruction be allied with you, one who creates injustice by statute?
Hath the throne of iniquitie fellowship with thee, which forgeth wrong for a Lawe?
21 They conspire together to take the life of the righteous and they condemn the innocent to death.
They gather them together against the soule of the righteous, and condemne the innocent blood.
22 But Yahweh has been my high tower, and my God has been the rock of my refuge.
But the Lord is my refuge, and my God is the rocke of mine hope.
23 He will bring on them their own iniquity and will cut them off in their own wickedness. Yahweh our God will cut them off.
And hee will recompence them their wickednes, and destroy them in their owne malice: yea, the Lord our God shall destroy them.
