Psalm 94
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1O LORD, the God who avenges! O God who avenges, reveal your splendor! 1O LORD, God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, shine forth!
2Rise up, O judge of the earth! Pay back the proud! 2Rise up, O judge of the earth; repay to the proud what they deserve!
3O LORD, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked celebrate? 3O LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult?
4They spew out threats and speak defiantly; all the evildoers boast. 4They pour out their arrogant words; all the evildoers boast.
5O LORD, they crush your people; they oppress the nation that belongs to you. 5They crush your people, O LORD, and afflict your heritage.
6They kill the widow and the one residing outside his native land, and they murder the fatherless. 6They kill the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless;
7Then they say, "The LORD does not see this; the God of Jacob does not take notice of it." 7and they say, “The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob does not perceive.”
8Take notice of this, you ignorant people! You fools, when will you ever understand? 8Understand, O dullest of the people! Fools, when will you be wise?
9Does the one who makes the human ear not hear? Does the one who forms the human eye not see? 9He who planted the ear, does he not hear? He who formed the eye, does he not see?
10Does the one who disciplines the nations not punish? He is the one who imparts knowledge to human beings! 10He who disciplines the nations, does he not rebuke? He who teaches man knowledge—
11The LORD knows that peoples' thoughts are morally bankrupt. 11the LORD—knows the thoughts of man, that they are but a breath.
12How blessed is the one whom you instruct, O LORD, the one whom you teach from your law, 12Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O LORD, and whom you teach out of your law,
13in order to protect him from times of trouble, until the wicked are destroyed. 13to give him rest from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked.
14Certainly the LORD does not forsake his people; he does not abandon the nation that belongs to him. 14For the LORD will not forsake his people; he will not abandon his heritage;
15For justice will prevail, and all the morally upright will be vindicated. 15for justice will return to the righteous, and all the upright in heart will follow it.
16Who will rise up to defend me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evildoers? 16Who rises up for me against the wicked? Who stands up for me against evildoers?
17If the LORD had not helped me, I would have laid down in the silence of death. 17If the LORD had not been my help, my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence.
18If I say, "My foot is slipping," your loyal love, O LORD, supports me. 18When I thought, “My foot slips,” your steadfast love, O LORD, held me up.
19When worries threaten to overwhelm me, your soothing touch makes me happy. 19When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul.
20Cruel rulers are not your allies, those who make oppressive laws. 20Can wicked rulers be allied with you, those who frame injustice by statute?
21They conspire against the blameless, and condemn to death the innocent. 21They band together against the life of the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.
22But the LORD will protect me, and my God will shelter me. 22But the LORD has become my stronghold, and my God the rock of my refuge.
23He will pay them back for their sin. He will destroy them because of their evil; the LORD our God will destroy them. 23He will bring back on them their iniquity and wipe them out for their wickedness; the LORD our God will wipe them out.
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