Psalm 94

A Psalm of David for the fourth day of the week.

¹ The Lord is a God of vengeance; the God of ¹vengeance has declared himself. ² Be thou exalted, thou that judgest the earth: render a reward to the proud.

³ How long shall sinners, O Lord, how long shall sinners boast? ⁴ They will utter and speak unrighteousness; all the workers of iniquity will speak so. ⁵ They have afflicted thy people, O Lord, and hurt thine heritage. ⁶ They have slain the widow and fatherless, and murdered the stranger. ⁷ And they said, The Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob understand.

⁸ Understand now, ye simple among the people; and ye fools, at length be wise. ⁹ He that planted the ear, does he not hear? or he that formed the eye, does not he perceive? ¹⁰ He that chastises the heathen, shall not he punish, even he that teaches man knowledge? ^{11 2}The Lord knows the thoughts of men, that they are vain.

¹² Blessed is the man whomsoever thou shalt chasten, O Lord, and shalt teach him out of thy law; ¹³ to give him rest from evil days, until a pit be digged for the sinful one. ¹⁴ For the Lord will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance; ¹⁵ until righteousness return to judgment, and all the upright in heart shall follow it. Pause.

¹⁶ Who will rise up for me against the transgressors? or who will stand up with me against the workers of iniquity? ¹⁷ If the Lord had not helped me, my soul had almost sojourned in Hades. ¹⁸ If I said, My foot has been moved; ¹⁹ thy mercy, O Lord, helped me. O Lord, according to the multitude of my griefs within my heart, thy consolation have ³soothed my soul.

²⁰ Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frames mischief by an ordinance? ²¹ They will hunt for the soul of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood. ²² But the Lord was my refuge; and my God the helper of my hope. ²³ And he will recompense to them their iniquity and their wickedness: the Lord our God shall utterly destroy them.

Psalm 95

The praise of a Song by David.

¹ Come, let us exult ⁴in the Lord; let us

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make a joyful noise to God our Saviour. ² Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise to him with psalms. ³ For the Lord is a great God, and a great king over all gods: ⁵for the Lord will not cast off his people. ⁴ For the ends of the earth are in his hands; and the heights of the mountains are his. ⁵ For the sea is his, and he made it: and is hands formed the dry land.

⁶ Come, let us worship and fall down before him; and weep before the Lord that made us. ⁷ For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. ^{8 6}To-day, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, according to the day of ⁷irritation in the wilderness: ⁹ where your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works. ¹⁰ Forty years was I grieved with this generation, and said, They do always err in their heart, and they have not known my ways. ¹¹ So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.