Psalms 94

1 Yahweh, you are able to get revenge [on your enemies]. [So] show them that you are going to punish them!

O Lord God the auenger, O God the auenger, shewe thy selfe clearely.

2 You are the one who judges all [people on] the earth; [so] arise, and give/punish the proud [leaders of our] people like they deserve.

Exalt thy selfe, O Iudge of the worlde, and render a reward to the proude.

3 Yahweh, how long will those wicked [people] be glad/happy? It is not right that [RHQ] they continue being glad!

Lord how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?

4 They do evil things, and they boast about doing them; how long will they [be allowed to] continue doing that?

They prate and speake fiercely: all the workers of iniquitie vaunt themselues.

5 Yahweh, [it is as though] those wicked people crush [us], your people; they (oppress/treat cruelly) those who belong to you [DOU].

They smite downe thy people, O Lord, and trouble thine heritage.

6 They murder widows and orphans and people from other countries who [think it is safe to] live in our land.

They slay the widowe and the stranger, and murder the fatherlesse.

7 Those wicked people say, “Yahweh does not see anything; [so] the God whom those Israelis [worship] does not see [the evil things that we do].”

Yet they say, The Lord shall not see: neither will the God of Iaakob regard it.

8 You evil people [who rule Israel], you are foolish and stupid; when will you become wise [RHQ]?

Vnderstande ye vnwise among the people: and ye fooles, when will ye be wise?

9 God made our ears; so [do you think that] he cannot hear [what you say] [RHQ]? He created our eyes; so do you think that he cannot see [the evil things that you do] [RHQ]?

Hee that planted the eare, shall hee not heare? or he that formed the eye, shall he not see?

10 He also scolds [the leaders of other] nations; so do you think that he will not punish [you] [RHQ]? He is the one who knows everything; [so why do you think that he does not know what you do] [RHQ]?

Or he that chastiseth the nations, shall he not correct? hee that teacheth man knowledge, shall he not knowe?

11 Yahweh knows [everything] that people are thinking; he knows that what they think ([is useless/vanishes as quickly as]) smoke [MET].

The Lord knoweth the thoughtes of man, that they are vanitie.

12 Yahweh, you are pleased with people who [want you to] discipline/correct them, those who [want you to] teach them your laws.

Blessed is the man, whom thou chastisest, O Lord, and teachest him in thy Lawe,

13 When those people have had troubles, you cause those troubles to cease, and some day [it will be as though] you will dig pits for wicked people, and they will fall into those pits [and die].

That thou mayest giue him rest from the dayes of euill, whiles the pitte is digged for the wicked.

14 Yahweh will not abandon his people; he will not desert like that those who belong to him [DOU].

Surely the Lord will not faile his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

15 [Some day] judges will decide matters fairly for people, and all honest/righteous people will be pleased about that.

For iudgement shall returne to iustice, and all the vpright in heart shall follow after it.

16 But when wicked [people] ([oppressed me/treated me cruelly]), (who defended me?/no one defended me.) [RHQ] No one stood up to testify for me against those evil people [RHQ].

Who will rise vp with me against the wicked? or who will take my part against the workers of iniquitie?

17 If Yahweh had not helped me [at that time], [I would have been executed], [and] my soul/spirit would have gone to the place where [dead people] say nothing.

If the Lord had not holpen me, my soule had almost dwelt in silence.

18 I said/thought [to myself], “I am about to die,” but Yahweh, you held me up by faithfully loving me.

When I said, My foote slideth, thy mercy, O Lord, stayed me.

19 Whenever I am very worried, you comfort/encourage me and cause me to be happy.

In the multitude of my thoughts in mine heart, thy comfortes haue reioyced my soule.

20 You have nothing to do with wicked judges, who establish laws that allow people to do what is not legal.

Hath the throne of iniquitie fellowship with thee, which forgeth wrong for a Lawe?

21 They plan to get rid of righteous [people], and they declare that (innocent people/people who have not done what is wrong) must be executed.

They gather them together against the soule of the righteous, and condemne the innocent blood.

22 But Yahweh (has become [like] my fortress/protects me) [MET]; my God is [like a huge] rock under which I am protected/safe [MET].

But the Lord is my refuge, and my God is the rocke of mine hope.

23 He will punish those wicked leaders in return for the wicked things that they have done, and will get rid of them for the sins that they have committed; [yes], Yahweh our God will (wipe them out/destroy them completely).

And hee will recompence them their wickednes, and destroy them in their owne malice: yea, the Lord our God shall destroy them.