Chapter 94

¹Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs,

You God to whom vengeance belongs, shine forth.

²Rise up, you judge of the earth.

Pay back the proud what they deserve.

³Yahweh, how long will the wicked,

How long will the wicked triumph?

⁴They pour out arrogant words.

All the evil-doers boast.

⁵They break your people in pieces, Yahweh,

And afflict your heritage.

⁶They kill the widow and the alien,

And murder the fatherless.

⁷They say, “Yah will not see,

Neither will Jacob’s God consider.”

⁸Consider, you senseless among the people;

You fools, when will you be wise?

⁹He who implanted the ear, won’t he hear?

He who formed the eye, won’t he see?

¹⁰He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish?

He who teaches man knows.

¹¹Yahweh knows the thoughts of man,

That they are futile.

¹²Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah,

And teach out of your law;

¹³That you may give him rest from the days of adversity,

Until the pit is dug for the wicked.

¹⁴For Yahweh won’t reject his people,

Neither will he forsake his inheritance.

¹⁵For judgment will return to righteousness.

All the upright in heart shall follow it.

¹⁶Who will rise up for me against the wicked?

Who will stand up for me against the evil-doers?

¹⁷Unless Yahweh had been my help,

My soul would have soon lived in silence.

¹⁸When I said, “My foot is slipping!”

Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.

¹⁹In the multitude of my thoughts within me,

Your comforts delight my soul.

²⁰Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you,

Which brings about mischief by statute?

²¹They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous,

And condemn the innocent blood.

²²But Yahweh has been my high tower,

My God, the rock of my refuge.

²³He has brought on them their own iniquity,

And will cut them off in their own wickedness.

Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.