Psalm 93–95

PSALM 93

The Majesty of the Lord.

^1aThe Lord ¹reigns, He is ^bclothed with majesty;

The Lord has ^cclothed and girded Himself with strength;

Indeed, the ^dworld is firmly established, it will not be moved.

²Your ^athrone is established from of old;

You ^bare from everlasting.

³The ^afloods have lifted up, O Lord,

The floods have lifted up their voice,

The floods lift up their pounding waves.

⁴More than the sounds of many waters,

Than the mighty breakers of the sea,

The Lord ^aon high is mighty.

⁵Your ^atestimonies are fully confirmed;

^bHoliness befits Your house,

O Lord, ¹forevermore.

PSALM 94

The Lord Implored to Avenge His People.

¹O Lord, God of ^1avengeance,

God of vengeance, ^2bshine forth!

^2aRise up, O ^bJudge of the earth,

Render recompense ^cto the proud.

³How long shall the wicked, O Lord,

How long shall the ^awicked exult?

⁴They pour forth words, they ^aspeak arrogantly;

All who do wickedness ^bvaunt themselves.

⁵They ^acrush Your people, O Lord,

And ^bafflict Your heritage.

⁶They ^aslay the widow and the ¹stranger

And murder the orphans.

^7aThey have said, “¹The Lord does not see,

Nor does the God of Jacob pay heed.”

⁸Pay heed, you ^asenseless among the people;

And when will you understand, stupid ones?

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

He who formed the eye, does He not see?

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

Even He who ^bteaches man knowledge?

¹¹The Lord ^aknows the thoughts of man,

¹That they are a mere breath.

¹²Blessed is the man whom ^aYou chasten, O ¹Lord,

And ^bwhom You teach out of Your law;

¹³That You may grant him ^arelief from the ^bdays of adversity,

Until ^ca pit is dug for the wicked.

¹⁴For ^athe Lord will not abandon His people,

Nor will He ^bforsake His inheritance.

¹⁵For ^1ajudgment ²will again be righteous,

And all the upright in heart ³will follow it.

¹⁶Who will ^astand up for me against evildoers?

Who will take his stand for me ^bagainst those who do wickedness?

¹⁷If ^athe Lord had not been my help,

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

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

Your lovingkindness, O Lord, 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 devises ²mischief by decree?

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

And ^bcondemn ²the innocent to death.

²²But the Lord has been my ^astronghold,

And my God the ^brock of my refuge.

²³He has ^abrought back their wickedness upon them

And will ^1bdestroy them in their evil;

The Lord our God will destroy them.

PSALM 95

Praise to the Lord, and Warning against Unbelief.

¹O come, let us ^asing for joy to the Lord,

Let us shout joyfully to ^bthe rock of our salvation.

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

Let us shout joyfully to Him ^cwith ²psalms.

³For the Lord 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 the Lord our ^cMaker.

⁷For He is our God,

And ^awe are the people of His ^1bpasture and the sheep of His hand.

^cToday, ²if you would hear His voice,

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

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

⁹“When your fathers ^atested Me,

They tried Me, though they had seen My work.

¹⁰“For ^aforty years I loathed that generation,

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

And they do not know My ways.

¹¹“Therefore I ^aswore in My anger,

Truly they shall not enter into My ^brest.”