Psalms 94
1 Yahweh, God who avenges, God who avenges, shine over us.
God of vengeance — Jehovah! God of vengeance, shine forth.
2 Rise up, judge of the earth, give to the proud what they deserve.
Be lifted up, O Judge of the earth, Send back a recompence on the proud.
3 How long will the wicked, Yahweh, how long will the wicked rejoice?
Till when [do] the wicked, O Jehovah? Till when do the wicked exult?
4 They pour out their arrogant words; all those who do evil boast.
They utter — they speak an old saw, All working iniquity do boast themselves.
5 They crush your people, Yahweh; they afflict the nation that belongs to you.
Thy people, O Jehovah, they bruise, And Thine inheritance they afflict.
6 They kill the widow and foreigner who lives in their country, and they murder the fatherless.
Widow and sojourner they slay, And fatherless ones they murder.
7 They say, “Yahweh will not see, the God of Jacob does not take notice of it.”
And they say, 'Jehovah doth not see, And the God of Jacob doth not consider.'
8 Understand, you stupid people! You fools, when will you ever learn?
Consider, ye brutish among the people, And ye foolish, when do ye act wisely?
9 He who made the ear, does he not hear? He who formed the eye, does he not see?
He who planteth the ear doth He not hear? He who formeth the eye doth He not see?
10 He who disciplines the nations, does he not correct? He is the one who gives knowledge to man.
He who is instructing nations, Doth He not reprove? He who is teaching man knowledge [is] Jehovah.
11 Yahweh knows the thoughts of men, that they are vapor.
He knoweth the thoughts of man, that they [are] vanity.
12 Blessed is the one whom you instruct, Yahweh, the one whom you teach from your law.
O the happiness of the man Whom Thou instructest, O Jah, And out of Thy law teachest him,
13 You give him rest in times of trouble until a pit is dug for the wicked.
To give rest to him from days of evil, While a pit is digged for the wicked.
14 For Yahweh will not forsake his people or abandon his inheritance.
For Jehovah leaveth not His people, And His inheritance forsaketh not.
15 For judgment will again be righteous; and all the upright in heart will follow it.
For to righteousness judgment turneth back, And after it all the upright of heart,
16 Who will rise up to defend me against the evildoers? Who will stand up for me against the wicked?
Who riseth up for me with evil doers? Who stationeth himself for me with workers of iniquity?
17 Unless Yahweh had been my help, I would soon be lying down in the place of silence.
Unless Jehovah [were] a help to me, My soul had almost inhabited silence.
18 When I said, “My foot is slipping,” Your covenant faithfulness, Yahweh, held me up.
If I have said, 'My foot hath slipped,' Thy kindness, O Jehovah, supporteth me.
19 When cares within me are many, your consolations make me happy.
In the abundance of my thoughts within me, Thy comforts delight my soul.
20 Can a throne of destruction be allied with you, one who creates injustice by statute?
Is a throne of mischief joined [with] Thee? A framer of perverseness by statute?
21 They conspire together to take the life of the righteous and they condemn the innocent to death.
They decree against the soul of the righteous, And innocent blood declare wicked.
22 But Yahweh has been my high tower, and my God has been the rock of my refuge.
And Jehovah is for a high place to me, And my God [is] for a rock — 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 turneth back on them their iniquity, And in their wickedness cutteth them off; Jehovah our God doth cut them off!
