Psalms 94

Psalms 94:1  
Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out.

Psalms 94:2  
Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve.

Psalms 94:3  
Yahweh, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph?

Psalms 94:4  
They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.

Psalms 94:5  
They break your people in pieces, Yahweh, and afflict your heritage.

Psalms 94:6  
They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.

Psalms 94:7  
They say, “Yah will not see, neither will Jacob’s God consider.”

Psalms 94:8  
Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

Psalms 94:9  
He who implanted the ear, won’t he hear? He who formed the eye, won’t he see?

Psalms 94:10  
He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish? He who teaches man knows.

Psalms 94:11  
Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.

Psalms 94:12  
Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law,

Psalms 94:13  
that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

Psalms 94:14  
For Yahweh won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

Psalms 94:15  
For judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright in heart shall follow it.

Psalms 94:16  
Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?

Psalms 94:17  
Unless Yahweh had been my help, my soul would have soon lived in silence.

Psalms 94:18  
When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.

Psalms 94:19  
In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul.

Psalms 94:20  
Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute?

Psalms 94:21  
They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

Psalms 94:22  
But Yahweh has been my high tower, my God, the rock of my refuge.

Psalms 94:23  
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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