Psalm 94–96

Psalm 94

¹O Jehovah, thou God to whom vengeance belongeth,

Thou God to whom vengeance belongeth, shine forth.

²Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth:

Render to the proud their desert.

³Jehovah, how long shall the wicked,

How long shall the wicked triumph?

⁴They prate, they speak arrogantly:

All the workers of iniquity boast themselves.

⁵They break in pieces thy people, O Jehovah,

And afflict thy heritage.

⁶They slay the widow and the sojourner,

And murder the fatherless.

⁷And they say, Jehovah will not see,

Neither will the God of Jacob consider.

⁸Consider, ye brutish among the people;

And ye fools, when will ye be wise?

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

He that formed the eye, shall he not see?

¹⁰He that chastiseth the nations, shall not he correct,

Even he that teacheth man knowledge?

¹¹Jehovah knoweth the thoughts of man,

That they are vanity.

¹²Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Jehovah,

And teachest out of thy law;

¹³That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity,

Until the pit be digged for the wicked.

¹⁴For Jehovah will not cast off his people,

Neither will he forsake his inheritance.

¹⁵For judgment shall return unto righteousness;

And all the upright in heart shall follow it.

¹⁶Who will rise up for me against the evil-doers?

Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?

¹⁷Unless Jehovah had been my help,

My soul had soon dwelt in silence.

¹⁸When I said, My foot slippeth;

Thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, held me up.

¹⁹In the multitude of my thoughts within me

Thy comforts delight my soul.

²⁰Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with thee,

Which frameth mischief by statute?

²¹They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous,

And condemn the innocent blood.

²²But Jehovah hath been my high tower,

And my God the rock of my refuge.

²³And he hath brought upon them their own iniquity,

And will cut them off in their own wickedness;

Jehovah our God will cut them off.

Psalm 95

¹Oh come, let us sing unto Jehovah;

Let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.

²Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving;

Let us make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.

³For Jehovah is a great God,

And a great King above all gods.

⁴In his hand are the deep places of the earth;

The heights of the mountains are his also.

⁵The sea is his, and he made it;

And his hands formed the dry land.

⁶Oh come, let us worship and bow down;

Let us kneel before Jehovah our Maker:

⁷For he is our God,

And we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.

To-day, oh that ye would hear his voice!

⁸Harden not your heart, as at Meribah,

As in the day of Massah in the wilderness;

⁹When your fathers tempted me,

Proved me, and saw my work.

¹⁰Forty years long was I grieved with that generation,

And said, It is a people that do err in their heart,

And they have not known my ways:

¹¹Wherefore I sware in my wrath,

That they should not enter into my rest.

Psalm 96

¹Oh sing unto Jehovah a new song:

Sing unto Jehovah, all the earth.

²Sing unto Jehovah, bless his name;

Show forth his salvation from day to day.

³Declare his glory among the nations,

His marvellous works among all the peoples.

⁴For great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised:

He is to be feared above all gods.

⁵For all the gods of the peoples are idols;

But Jehovah made the heavens.

⁶Honor and majesty are before him:

Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.

⁷Ascribe unto Jehovah, ye kindreds of the peoples,

Ascribe unto Jehovah glory and strength.

⁸Ascribe unto Jehovah the glory due unto his name:

Bring an offering, and come into his courts.

⁹Oh worship Jehovah in holy array:

Tremble before him, all the earth.

¹⁰Say among the nations, Jehovah reigneth:

The world also is established that it cannot be moved:

He will judge the peoples with equity

¹¹Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice;

Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof;

¹²Let the field exult, and all that is therein;

Then shall all the trees of the wood sing for joy

¹³Before Jehovah; for he cometh,

For he cometh to judge the earth:

He will judge the world with righteousness,

And the peoples with his truth.