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, “Yah will not see, neither will Jacob’s God consider.”
v8
Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?
v9
He who implanted the ear, won’t he hear? He who formed the eye, won’t he see?
v10
He who disciplines the nations, won’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 won’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, “My foot is slipping!” 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.