Psalms 94
1 LORD, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out.
O God, of vengeance, Lord! O God of vengeance, 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! bring a recompense upon the proud.
3 LORD, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph?
How long shall the wicked, O Lord—how long shall the wicked exult?
4 They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.
They sputter, they speak hard things: all the workers of wickedness boast themselves.
5 They break your people in pieces, LORD, and afflict your heritage.
Thy people, O Lord! they crush, and thy heritage they afflict.
6 They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.
The widow and the stranger they slay, and the fatherless they murder.
7 They say, “The LORD will not see, neither will Jacob’s God consider.”
And they say, The Lord will not see, and the God of Jacob will not take notice of it.
8 Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?
Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye become intelligent!
9 He who implanted the ear, won’t he hear? He who formed the eye, won’t he 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, won’t he punish? He who teaches man knows.
He that admonisheth nations, shall he not correct? is it not he that teacheth man knowledge!
11 The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.
The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are nought.
12 Blessed is the man whom you discipline, LORD, and teach out of your law,
Happy is the man whom thou admonisheth, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law:
13 that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the 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 the LORD won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
For the Lord will not cast off 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 will justice return; and it shall be followed by 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 evil-doers? or who will stand forward for me against the workers of wickedness?
17 Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul would have soon lived in 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 loving kindness, LORD, held me up.
When I said, My foot hath slipped: thy kindness, O Lord, sustained me.
19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul.
In the multitude of my [painful] thoughts within me, thy consolations delight my soul.
20 Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute?
Can there be associated with thee the throne of destructive wickedness, which frameth mischief as a law?
21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
They band themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and innocent blood do they condemn.
22 But the LORD has been my high tower, my God, the rock of my refuge.
But the Lord is become my defence, and my God, the rock of my refuge.
23 He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. The LORD, 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.
