Psalms 94
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Psalm 94
1O Lord, God of vengeance,
O God of vengeance, appear!
2Arise, O Judge of the earth.
Give arrogant people what they deserve.
3How long, O Lord, will wicked people triumph?
How long?
4They ramble.
They speak arrogantly.
All troublemakers brag about themselves.
5They crush your people, O Lord.
They make those who belong to you suffer.
6They kill widows and foreigners, and they murder orphans.
7They say, “The Lord doesn’t see it.
The God of Jacob doesn’t even pay attention to it.”
8Pay attention, you stupid people!
When will you become wise, you fools?
9God created ears.
Do you think he can’t hear?
He formed eyes.
Do you think he can’t see?
10He disciplines nations.
Do you think he can’t punish?
He teaches people.
Do you think he doesn’t know anything?
11The Lord knows that people’s thoughts are pointless.
12O Lord, blessed is the person
whom you discipline and instruct from your teachings.
13You give him peace and quiet from times of trouble
while a pit is dug to trap wicked people.
14The Lord will never desert his people
or abandon those who belong to him.
15The decisions of judges will again become fair,
and everyone whose motives are decent will pursue justice.
16Who will stand up for me against evildoers?
Who will stand by my side against troublemakers?
17If the Lord had not come to help me,
my soul would have quickly fallen silent ⌞in death⌟.
18When I said, “My feet are slipping,”
your mercy, O Lord, continued to hold me up.
19When I worried about many things,
your assuring words soothed my soul.
20Are wicked rulers who use the law to do unlawful things
able to be your partners?
21They join forces to take the lives of righteous people.
They condemn innocent people to death.
22The Lord has become my stronghold.
My God has become my rock of refuge.
23He has turned their own wickedness against them.
He will destroy them because of their sins.
The Lord our God will destroy them.
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Psalms 94
94
1O LORD, thou God to whom vengeance belongeth,
Thou God to whom vengeance belongeth, shine forth.
2Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth:
Render to the proud their desert.
3 LORD, how long shall the wicked,
How long shall the wicked triumph?
4They prate, they speak arrogantly:
All the workers of iniquity boast themselves.
5They break in pieces thy people, O LORD,
And afflict thine heritage.
6They slay the widow and the stranger,
And murder the fatherless.
7And they say, The LORD shall not see,
Neither shall the God of Jacob consider.
8Consider, ye brutish among the people:
And ye fools, when will ye be wise?
9He that planted the ear, shall he not hear?
He that formed the eye, shall he not see?
10He that chastiseth the nations, shall not he correct,
Even he that teacheth man knowledge?
11The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man,
That they are vanity.
12Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD,
And teachest out of thy law;
13That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity,
Until the pit be digged for the wicked.
14For the LORD will not cast off his people,
Neither will he forsake his inheritance.
15For judgement shall return unto righteousness:
And all the upright in heart shall follow it.
16Who will rise up for me against the evil-doers?
Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
17Unless the LORD had been my help,
My soul had soon dwelt in silence.
18When I said, My foot slippeth;
Thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.
19In the multitude of my thoughts within me
Thy comforts delight my soul.
20Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with thee,
Which frameth mischief by statute?
21They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous,
And condemn the innocent blood.
22But the LORD hath been my high tower;
And my God the rock of my refuge.
23And he hath brought upon them their own iniquity,
And shall cut them off in their own evil;
the LORD our God shall cut them off.
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