Psalms 94
1 Yahweh, God who avenges, God who avenges, shine over us.
O God, of vengeance, Lord! O God of vengeance, shine forth.
2 Rise up, judge of the earth, give to the proud what they deserve.
Lift up thyself, O judge of the Earth! bring a recompense upon the proud.
3 How long will the wicked, Yahweh, how long will the wicked rejoice?
How long shall the wicked, O Lord—how long shall the wicked exult?
4 They pour out their arrogant words; all those who do evil boast.
They sputter, they speak hard things: all the workers of wickedness boast themselves.
5 They crush your people, Yahweh; they afflict the nation that belongs to you.
Thy people, O Lord! they crush, and thy heritage they afflict.
6 They kill the widow and foreigner who lives in their country, and they murder the fatherless.
The widow and the stranger they slay, and the fatherless they murder.
7 They say, “Yahweh will not see, the God of Jacob does not take notice of it.”
And they say, The Lord will not see, and the God of Jacob will not take notice of it.
8 Understand, you stupid people! You fools, when will you ever learn?
Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye become intelligent!
9 He who made the ear, does he not hear? He who formed 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 disciplines the nations, does he not correct? He is the one who gives knowledge to man.
He that admonisheth nations, shall he not correct? is it not he that teacheth man knowledge!
11 Yahweh knows the thoughts of men, that they are vapor.
The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are nought.
12 Blessed is the one whom you instruct, Yahweh, the one whom you teach from your law.
Happy is the man whom thou admonisheth, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law:
13 You give him rest in times of trouble until 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 Yahweh will not forsake his people or abandon his inheritance.
For the Lord will not cast off his people, and his inheritance will he not forsake.
15 For judgment will again be righteous; and all the upright in heart will follow it.
For unto righteousness will justice return; and it shall be followed by all the upright in heart.
16 Who will rise up to defend me against the evildoers? Who will stand up for me against the wicked?
Who will rise up for me against evil-doers? or who will stand forward for me against the workers of wickedness?
17 Unless Yahweh had been my help, I would soon be lying down in the place of 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 When I said, “My foot is slipping,” Your covenant faithfulness, Yahweh, held me up.
When I said, My foot hath slipped: thy kindness, O Lord, sustained me.
19 When cares within me are many, your consolations make me happy.
In the multitude of my [painful] thoughts within me, thy consolations delight my soul.
20 Can a throne of destruction be allied with you, one who creates injustice by statute?
Can there be associated with thee the throne of destructive wickedness, which frameth mischief as a law?
21 They conspire together to take the life of the righteous and they condemn the innocent to death.
They band themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and innocent blood do they condemn.
22 But Yahweh has been my high tower, and my God has been the rock of my refuge.
But the Lord is become my defence, and my God, the rock of my refuge.
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 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.
