Psalm 94

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v1

Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out.

v2

Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve.

v3

Yahweh, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph?

v4

They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.

v5

They break your people in pieces, Yahweh, and afflict your heritage.

v6

They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.

v7

They say, โ€œYah will not see, neither will Jacobโ€™s God consider.โ€

v8

Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

v9

He who implanted the ear, wonโ€™t he hear? He who formed the eye, wonโ€™t he see?

v10

He who disciplines the nations, wonโ€™t he punish? He who teaches man knows.

v11

Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.

v12

Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law,

v13

that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

v14

For Yahweh wonโ€™t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

v15

For judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright in heart shall follow it.

v16

Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?

v17

Unless Yahweh had been my help, my soul would have soon lived in silence.

v18

When I said, โ€œMy foot is slipping!โ€ Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.

v19

In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul.

v20

Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute?

v21

They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

v22

But Yahweh has been my high tower, my God, the rock of my refuge.

v23

He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.


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