Psalm 94

94 ¹O Jehovah, 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.

³Jehovah, 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 Jehovah,

And afflict thy heritage.

⁶They slay the widow and the sojourner,

And murder the fatherless.

⁷And they say, ^aJehovah will not see,

Neither will 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 ^achastiseth the nations, shall not he correct,

Even he that teacheth man knowledge?

¹¹Jehovah knoweth the thoughts of man,

^aThat they are ^avanity.

¹²Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Jehovah,

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 Jehovah will not cast off his people,

Neither will he forsake his inheritance.

¹⁵For judgment 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 Jehovah had been my help,

My soul had soon dwelt in silence.

¹⁸When I said, My foot slippeth;

Thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, held me up.

¹⁹In the multitude of my ^athoughts within me Thy comforts delight my soul.

²⁰Shall the ^athrone 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 Jehovah hath been my high tower,

And my God the rock of my refuge.

²³And he hath brought upon them their own iniquity,

And will cut them off in their own wickedness;

Jehovah our God will cut them off.