Psalm 94:1–96:13

God of Vengeance, Shine Forth

¹O Yahweh, God of ^1avengeance,

God of ²vengeance, ^3bshine forth!

^2aBe lifted up, O ^bJudge of the earth,

Render recompense ^cto the proud.

³How long shall the wicked, O Yahweh,

How long shall the ^awicked exult?

⁴They pour forth words, they ^aspeak arrogantly;

All workers of iniquity ^bvaunt themselves.

⁵They ^acrush Your people, O Yahweh,

And ^bafflict Your inheritance.

⁶They ^aslay the widow and the sojourner

And murder the orphans.

^7aThey have said, “Yah does not see,

Nor does the God of Jacob discern.”

⁸Discern, you ^asenseless among the people;

And when will you have insight, ^byou fools?

⁹He who ^aplanted the ear, ¹does He not hear?

He who formed the eye, ²does He not see?

¹⁰He who ^1adisciplines the nations, will He not rebuke,

Even He who ^bteaches man knowledge?

¹¹Yahweh ^aknows the thoughts of man,

¹That they are vanity.

¹²Blessed is the man whom ^aYou discipline, O Yah,

And ^bwhom You teach out of Your law;

¹³That You may grant him ^acalm from the ^bdays of calamity,

Until ^ca pit is dug for the wicked.

¹⁴For ^aYahweh will not abandon His people,

Nor will He ^bforsake His inheritance.

¹⁵For ^1ajudgment will ²again be righteous,

And all the upright in heart will ³follow it.

¹⁶Who will ^aarise for me against evildoers?

Who will take his stand for me ^bagainst workers of iniquity?

¹⁷If ^aYahweh had not been my help,

My soul would soon have dwelt in the abode of silence.

¹⁸If I should say, “^aMy foot has stumbled,”

Your lovingkindness, O Yahweh, will hold me up.

¹⁹When my anxious thoughts ¹multiply within me,

Your ^aconsolations delight my soul.

²⁰Can a ^1athrone of destruction be allied with You,

One ^bwhich forms ²trouble by statute?

²¹They ^aband themselves together against the ¹life of the righteous

And ^bcondemn ²the innocent to death.

²²But Yahweh has been my ^astronghold,

And my God the ^brock of my refuge.

²³He has ^abrought back their ¹iniquity upon them

And will ^2bdestroy them in their evil;

Yahweh our God will ³destroy them.

PSALM 95

Let Us Kneel Before Yahweh Our Maker

¹Oh come, let us ^asing for joy to Yahweh,

Let us make a loud shout to ^bthe rock of our salvation.

²Let us ^acome before His presence ^bwith ¹thanksgiving,

Let us make a loud shout to Him ^cwith songs of praise.

³For Yahweh is a ^agreat God

And a great King ^babove all gods,

⁴In whose hand are the ^adepths of the earth,

The peaks of the mountains are His also.

⁵¹The sea is His, for it was He ^awho made it,

And His hands formed the dry land.

⁶Come, let us ^aworship and bow down,

Let us ^bkneel before Yahweh our ^cMaker.

⁷For He is our God,

And ^awe are the people of His ^bpasture and the sheep of His hand.

^cToday, ¹if you hear His voice,

⁸Do not harden your hearts, as at ^1aMeribah,

As in the day of ^2bMassah in the wilderness,

⁹“When your fathers ^atried Me,

They tested Me, though they had seen My work.

¹⁰“For ^aforty years I loathed that generation,

And said they are a people who wander in their heart,

And they do not know My ways.

¹¹“Therefore I ^aswore in My anger,

They shall never enter into My ^brest.”

PSALM 96

Ascribe to Yahweh Glory and Strength

^1aSing to Yahweh a ^bnew song;

Sing to Yahweh, all the earth.

²Sing to Yahweh, bless His name;

^aProclaim good news of His salvation from day to day.

³Recount ^aHis glory among the nations,

His wondrous deeds among all the peoples.

⁴For ^agreat is Yahweh and ^bgreatly to be praised;

He is ¹more ^2cfearsome ^dthan all gods.

⁵For ^aall the gods of the peoples are ¹idols,

But ^bYahweh made the heavens.

^6aSplendor and majesty are before Him,

Strength and beauty are in His sanctuary.

⁷¹Ascribe to Yahweh, O ^afamilies of the peoples,

^2bAscribe to Yahweh glory and strength.

⁸Ascribe to Yahweh the ^aglory of His name;

Lift up ¹an ^boffering and come into His courts.

^9aWorship Yahweh in the splendor of holiness;

^bTremble before Him, all the earth.

¹⁰Say among the nations, “^aYahweh ¹reigns;

Indeed, the ^bworld is established, it will not be shaken;

He will ^crender justice to the peoples with ²equity.”

¹¹Let the ^aheavens be glad, and let the ^bearth rejoice;

Let ^cthe sea ¹roar, as well as its fullness;

¹²Let the ^afield exult, and all that is in it.

Then all the ^btrees of the forest will sing for joy

¹³Before Yahweh, ^afor He is coming,

For He is coming to judge the earth.

^bHe will judge the world in righteousness

And the peoples in His faithfulness.