Psalm 94

¹ O Jehovah, thou God to whom vengeance belongeth, Thou God to whom vengeance belongeth, shine forth.

² Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: Render to the proud their desert.

³ Jehovah, how long shall the wicked, How long shall the wicked triumph?

⁴ They prate, they speak arrogantly: All the workers of iniquity boast themselves.

⁵ They break in pieces thy people, O Jehovah, And afflict thy heritage.

⁶ They slay the widow and the sojourner, And murder the fatherless.

⁷ And they say, Jehovah will not see, Neither will the God of Jacob consider.

⁸ Consider, ye brutish among the people; And ye fools, when will ye be wise?

⁹ He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? He that formed the eye, shall he not see?

¹⁰ He that chastiseth the nations, shall not he correct, Even he that teacheth man knowledge?

¹¹ Jehovah knoweth the thoughts of man, That they are vanity.

¹² Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Jehovah, And teachest out of thy law;

¹³ That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, Until the pit be digged for the wicked.

¹⁴ For Jehovah will not cast off his people, Neither will he forsake his inheritance.

¹⁵ For judgment shall return unto righteousness; And all the upright in heart shall follow it.

¹⁶ Who will rise up for me against the evil-doers? Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?

¹⁷ Unless Jehovah had been my help, My soul had soon dwelt in silence.

¹⁸ When I said, My foot slippeth; Thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, held me up.

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

²⁰ Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with thee, Which frameth mischief by statute?

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

²² But Jehovah hath been my high tower, And my God the rock of my refuge.

²³ And he hath brought upon them their own iniquity, And will cut them off in their own wickedness; Jehovah our God will cut them off.