Psalms 94
1 Yahweh, God who avenges, God who avenges, shine over us.
O GOD of avenging—Yahweh, GOD of avenging, shine forth:
2 Rise up, judge of the earth, give to the proud what they deserve.
Lift up thyself, O judge of the earth, Render a recompense unto the proud.
3 How long will the wicked, Yahweh, how long will the wicked rejoice?
How long shall the lawless, O Yahweh, How long shall the lawless exult?
4 They pour out their arrogant words; all those who do evil boast.
They pour forth [words], they speak arrogantly, All the workers of iniquity, do boast:
5 They crush your people, Yahweh; they afflict the nation that belongs to you.
Thy people, O Yahweh, they will crush, And, thine inheritance, tread down;
6 They kill the widow and foreigner who lives in their country, and they murder the fatherless.
The widow and sojourner, they will slay, And, the fatherless, murder.
7 They say, “Yahweh will not see, the God of Jacob does not take notice of it.”
Yet have they said—Yah, doth not see, The God of Jacob, doth not understand.
8 Understand, you stupid people! You fools, when will you ever learn?
Understand, ye brutish among the people, And, ye dullards, when will ye show discretion?
9 He who made the ear, does he not hear? He who formed the eye, does he not see?
He that planteth the ear, shall he not hear? Or, that fashioneth the eye, shall he not have power to see?
10 He who disciplines the nations, does he not correct? He is the one who gives knowledge to man.
He that correcteth nations, shall he not reprove? He that teacheth man knowledge!
11 Yahweh knows the thoughts of men, that they are vapor.
Yahweh, knoweth the plans of men, That, they, are a breath!
12 Blessed is the one whom you instruct, Yahweh, the one whom you teach from your law.
How happy the man whom thou correctest, O Yah! And whom, out of thy law, thou instructest!
13 You give him rest in times of trouble until a pit is dug for the wicked.
That thou mayest give him rest from the days of misfortune, Until there be digged—for the lawless one—a pit.
14 For Yahweh will not forsake his people or abandon his inheritance.
For Yahweh, will not abandon, his people, And, his inheritance, will he not forsake;
15 For judgment will again be righteous; and all the upright in heart will follow it.
For, unto righteousness, shall the judicial sentence return, Then shall follow it—all the upright in heart.
16 Who will rise up to defend me against the evildoers? Who will stand up for me against the wicked?
Who will rise up for me, against the evil-doers? Who will make a stand for me, against the workers of iniquity?
17 Unless Yahweh had been my help, I would soon be lying down in the place of silence.
If, Yahweh, had not been a help to me, Soon had sunk into silence—my soul!
18 When I said, “My foot is slipping,” Your covenant faithfulness, Yahweh, held me up.
If I say, My foot, hath slipped, Thy lovingkindness, O Yahweh, supporteth me.
19 When cares within me are many, your consolations make me happy.
In the multitude of my cares within me, Thy consolations, delight my soul.
20 Can a throne of destruction be allied with you, one who creates injustice by statute?
Shall the throne that inflicteth ruin, have fellowship with thee, That frameth oppression, by statute?
21 They conspire together to take the life of the righteous and they condemn the innocent to death.
They make an attack on the life of the righteous one, —And, innocent blood, they condemn.
22 But Yahweh has been my high tower, and my God has been the rock of my refuge.
But, Yahweh, hath become for me a high tower, And my God, my rock of refuge.
23 He will bring on them their own iniquity and will cut them off in their own wickedness. Yahweh our God will cut them off.
Thus hath he brought back on them their iniquity, And, by their own wickedness, will he destroy them, Destroy them, will Yahweh our God.
