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 <div class="label">94</div><div class="s1">Psalm 94#sn Psalm 94. The psalmist asks God to judge the wicked and affirms his confidence in God&#8217;s justice.</div><div class="p">1 O Lord, the God who avenges!</div><div class="p">O God who avenges, reveal your splendor!#tn Heb &#8220;shine forth&#8221; (see Pss 50:2; 80:1).</div><div class="p">2 Rise up, O judge of the earth!</div><div class="p">Pay back the proud!</div><div class="p">3 O Lord, how long will the wicked,</div><div class="p">how long will the wicked celebrate?#tn Or &#8220;exult.&#8221;</div><div class="p">4 They spew out threats#tn Heb &#8220;they gush forth [words].&#8221; and speak defiantly;</div><div class="p">all the evildoers boast.#tn The Hitpael of &#1488;&#1464;&#1502;&#1463;&#1512; (&#8217;amar) occurs only here (and perhaps in Isa 61:6).</div><div class="p">5 O Lord, they crush your people;</div><div class="p">they oppress the nation that belongs to you.#tn Or &#8220;your inheritance.&#8221;</div><div class="p">6 They kill the widow and the one residing outside his native land,</div><div class="p">and they murder the fatherless.#tn The Hebrew noun &#1497;&#1464;&#1514;&#1493;&#1465;&#1501; (yatom) refers to one who has lost his father (not necessarily his mother, see Ps 109:9). Because they were so vulnerable and were frequently exploited, fatherless children are often mentioned as epitomizing the oppressed (see Pss 10:14; 68:5; 82:3; 146:9; as well as Job 6:27; 22:9; 24:3, 9; 29:12; 31:17, 21).</div><div class="p">7 Then they say, &#8220;The Lord does not see this;</div><div class="p">the God of Jacob does not take notice of it.&#8221;#tn Heb &#8220;does not understand.&#8221;</div><div class="p">8 Take notice of this,#tn Heb &#8220;understand.&#8221; The verb used in v. 7 is repeated here for rhetorical effect. The people referred to here claim God is ignorant of their actions, but the psalmist corrects their faulty viewpoint. you ignorant people!#tn Heb &#8220;[you] brutish among the people.&#8221;</div><div class="p">You fools, when will you ever understand?</div><div class="p">9 Does the one who makes the human ear not hear?</div><div class="p">Does the one who forms the human eye not see?#tn Heb &#8220;The one who plants an ear, does he not hear? The one who forms an eye, does he not see?&#8221;</div><div class="p">10 Does the one who disciplines the nations not punish?</div><div class="p">He is the one who imparts knowledge to human beings!</div><div class="p">11 The Lord knows that</div><div class="p">peoples&#8217; thoughts are morally bankrupt.#tn Heb &#8220;the Lord knows the thoughts of man, that they are emptiness.&#8221; The psalmist thinks specifically of the &#8220;thoughts&#8221; expressed in v. 7.</div><div class="p">12 How blessed is the one#tn Heb &#8220;[Oh] the happiness [of] the man.&#8221; Hebrew wisdom literature often assumes and reflects the male-oriented perspective of ancient Israelite society. The principle of the psalm is certainly applicable to all people, regardless of their gender or age. To facilitate modern application, we translate the gender and age specific &#8220;man&#8221; with the more neutral &#8220;one.&#8221; The generic masculine pronoun is used in v. 2. whom you instruct, O Lord,</div><div class="p">the one whom you teach from your law,</div><div class="p">13 in order to protect him from times of trouble,#tn Heb &#8220;to give him rest from the days of trouble.&#8221;</div><div class="p">until the wicked are destroyed.#tn Heb &#8220;until a pit is dug for the wicked.&#8221;</div><div class="p">14 Certainly#tn Or &#8220;for.&#8221; the Lord does not forsake his people;</div><div class="p">he does not abandon the nation that belongs to him.#tn Or &#8220;his inheritance.&#8221;</div><div class="p">15 For justice will prevail,#tn Heb &#8220;for judgment will return to justice.&#8221;</div><div class="p">and all the morally upright#tn Heb &#8220;all the pure of heart.&#8221; The &#8220;heart&#8221; is here viewed as the seat of one&#8217;s moral character and motives. The &#8220;pure of heart&#8221; are God&#8217;s faithful followers who trust in and love the Lord and, as a result, experience his deliverance (see Pss 7:10; 11:2; 32:11; 36:10; 64:10; 97:11). will be vindicated.#tn Heb &#8220;and after it [are] the pure of heart.&#8221;</div><div class="p">16 Who will rise up to defend me#tn Heb &#8220;for me.&#8221; against the wicked?</div><div class="p">Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?#sn Who will stand up for me&#8230;? The questions anticipate the answer, &#8220;No one except God&#8221; (see v. 17).</div><div class="p">17 If the Lord had not helped me,</div><div class="p">I would have laid down in the silence of death.#tn Heb &#8220;If the Lord [were] not my help, quickly my life would have lain down in silence.&#8221; The psalmist, perhaps speaking as the nation&#8217;s representative, recalls God&#8217;s past intervention. For other examples of conditional sentences with the term &#1500;&#1493;&#1468;&#1500;&#1461;&#1497; (luley, &#8220;if not&#8221;) in the protasis and a perfect verbal form in the apodosis, see Pss 119:92 and 124:2-5.</div><div class="p">18 If I say, &#8220;My foot is slipping,&#8221;</div><div class="p">your loyal love, O Lord, supports me.</div><div class="p">19 When worries threaten to overwhelm me,#tn Heb &#8220;when my worries are many within me.&#8221;</div><div class="p">your soothing touch makes me happy.#tn Heb &#8220;your comforts cause my soul to delight.&#8221;</div><div class="p">20 Cruel rulers#tn Heb &#8220;a throne of destruction.&#8221; &#8220;Throne&#8221; stands here by metonymy for rulers who occupy thrones. are not your allies,</div><div class="p">those who make oppressive laws.#tn Heb &#8220;Is a throne of destruction united to you, one that forms trouble upon a statute?&#8221; The rhetorical question anticipates the answer, &#8220;Of course not!&#8221; The translation, while not preserving the interrogative form of the statement, reflects its rhetorical force.</div><div class="p">21 They conspire against#tn Or &#8220;attack.&#8221; the blameless,#tn Heb &#8220;the life of the blameless.&#8221;</div><div class="p">and condemn to death the innocent.#tn Heb &#8220;and the blood of the innocent they declare guilty.&#8221;</div><div class="p">22 But the Lord will protect me,#tn Heb &#8220;and the Lord has become my elevated place.&#8221; The prefixed verbal form with vav (&#1493;) consecutive is used in a rhetorical sense, describing an anticipated development as if it were already reality.</div><div class="p">and my God will shelter me.#tn Heb &#8220;and my God [has become] a rocky summit of my safety.&#8221;</div><div class="p">23 He will pay them back for their sin.#tn The prefixed verbal form with vav (&#1493;) consecutive is used in a rhetorical sense, describing an anticipated development as if it were already reality.</div><div class="p">He will destroy them because of#tn Or &#8220;in.&#8221; their evil;</div><div class="p">the Lord our God will destroy them.</div>
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O LORD, the God who avenges!
O God who avenges, reveal your splendor!
Rise up, O judge of the earth!
Pay back the proud!
O LORD, how long will the wicked,
how long will the wicked celebrate?
They spew out threats and speak defiantly;
all the evildoers boast.
O LORD, they crush your people;
they oppress the nation that belongs to you.
They kill the widow and the one residing outside his native land,
and they murder the fatherless.
Then they say, “The LORD does not see this;
the God of Jacob does not take notice of it.”
Take notice of this, you ignorant people!
You fools, when will you ever understand?
Does the one who makes the human ear not hear?
Does the one who forms the human eye not see?
Does the one who disciplines the nations not punish?
He is the one who imparts knowledge to human beings!
The LORD knows that
peoples’ thoughts are morally bankrupt.
How blessed is the one whom you instruct, O LORD,
the one whom you teach from your law,
in order to protect him from times of trouble,
until the wicked are destroyed.
Certainly the LORD does not forsake his people;
he does not abandon the nation that belongs to him.
For justice will prevail,
and all the morally upright will be vindicated.
Who will rise up to defend me against the wicked?
Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?
If the LORD had not helped me,
I would have laid down in the silence of death.
If I say, “My foot is slipping,”
your loyal love, O LORD, supports me.
When worries threaten to overwhelm me,
your soothing touch makes me happy.
Cruel rulers are not your allies,
those who make oppressive laws.
They conspire against the blameless,
and condemn to death the innocent.
But the LORD will protect me,
and my God will shelter me.
He will pay them back for their sin.
He will destroy them because of their evil;
the LORD our God will destroy them.

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