Psalms 94

1 LORD, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out.

God of vengeance — Jehovah! God of vengeance, shine forth.

2 Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve.

Be lifted up, O Judge of the earth, Send back a recompence on the proud.

3 LORD, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph?

Till when [do] the wicked, O Jehovah? Till when do the wicked exult?

4 They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.

They utter — they speak an old saw, All working iniquity do boast themselves.

5 They break your people in pieces, LORD, and afflict your heritage.

Thy people, O Jehovah, they bruise, And Thine inheritance they afflict.

6 They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.

Widow and sojourner they slay, And fatherless ones they murder.

7 They say, “The LORD will not see, neither will Jacob’s God consider.”

And they say, 'Jehovah doth not see, And the God of Jacob doth not consider.'

8 Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

Consider, ye brutish among the people, And ye foolish, when do ye act wisely?

9 He who implanted the ear, will not he hear? He who formed the eye, will not he see?

He who planteth the ear doth He not hear? He who formeth the eye doth He not see?

10 He who disciplines the nations, will not he punish? He who teaches man knows.

He who is instructing nations, Doth He not reprove? He who is teaching man knowledge [is] Jehovah.

11 The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.

He knoweth the thoughts of man, that they [are] vanity.

12 Blessed is the man whom you discipline, LORD, and teach out of your law,

O the happiness of the man Whom Thou instructest, O Jah, And out of Thy law teachest him,

13 that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

To give rest to him from days of evil, While a pit is digged for the wicked.

14 For the LORD will not reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

For Jehovah leaveth not His people, And His inheritance forsaketh not.

15 For judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright in heart shall follow it.

For to righteousness judgment turneth back, And after it all the upright of heart,

16 Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?

Who riseth up for me with evil doers? Who stationeth himself for me with workers of iniquity?

17 Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul would have soon lived in silence.

Unless Jehovah [were] a help to me, My soul had almost inhabited silence.

18 When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, LORD, held me up.

If I have said, 'My foot hath slipped,' Thy kindness, O Jehovah, supporteth me.

19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul.

In the abundance of my thoughts within me, Thy comforts delight my soul.

20 Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute?

Is a throne of mischief joined [with] Thee? A framer of perverseness by statute?

21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

They decree against the soul of the righteous, And innocent blood declare wicked.

22 But the LORD has been my high tower, my God, the rock of my refuge.

And Jehovah is for a high place to me, And my God [is] for a rock — my refuge,

23 He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. The LORD, our God, will cut them off.

And turneth back on them their iniquity, And in their wickedness cutteth them off; Jehovah our God doth cut them off!