Psalms 94

Psalms 94

¹Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs,

you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine forth.

²Rise up, you judge of the earth.

Pay back the proud what they deserve.

³Yahweh, how long will the wicked,

how long will the wicked triumph?

⁴They pour out arrogant words.

All the evildoers boast.

⁵They break your people in pieces, Yahweh,

and afflict your heritage.

⁶They kill the widow and the alien,

and murder the fatherless.

⁷They say, “Yah will not see,

neither will Jacob’s God consider.”

⁸Consider, you senseless among the people;

you fools, when will you be wise?

⁹He who implanted the ear, won’t he hear?

He who formed the eye, won’t he see?

¹⁰He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish?

He who teaches man knows.

¹¹Yahweh knows the thoughts of man,

that they are futile.

¹²Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah,

and teach out of your law;

¹³that you may give him rest from the days of adversity,

until the pit is dug for the wicked.

¹⁴For Yahweh won’t reject his people,

neither will he forsake his inheritance.

¹⁵For judgment will return to righteousness.

All the upright in heart shall follow it.

¹⁶Who will rise up for me against the wicked?

Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?

¹⁷Unless Yahweh had been my help,

my soul would have soon lived in silence.

¹⁸When I said, “My foot is slipping!”

Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.

¹⁹In the multitude of my thoughts within me,

your comforts delight my soul.

²⁰Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you,

which brings about mischief by statute?

²¹They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous,

and condemn the innocent blood.

²²But Yahweh has been my high tower,

my God, the rock of my refuge.

²³He has brought on them their own iniquity,

and will cut them off in their own wickedness.

Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.