Psalm 94

¹God of vengeance—Jehovah! God of vengeance, shine forth.

²Be lifted up, O Judge of the earth, Send back a recompence on the proud.

³Till when do the wicked, O Jehovah? Till when do the wicked exult?

⁴They utter—they speak an old saw, All working iniquity do boast themselves.

⁵Thy people, O Jehovah, they bruise, And Thine inheritance they afflict.

⁶Widow and sojourner they slay, And fatherless ones they murder.

⁷And they say, ‘Jehovah doth not see, And the God of Jacob doth not consider.’

⁸Consider, ye brutish among the people, And ye foolish, when do ye act wisely?

⁹He who planteth the ear doth He not hear? He who formeth the eye doth He not see?

¹⁰He who is instructing nations, Doth He not reprove? He who is teaching man knowledge is Jehovah.

¹¹He knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

¹²O the happiness of the man Whom Thou instructest, O Jah, And out of Thy law teachest him,

¹³To give rest to him from days of evil, While a pit is digged for the wicked.

¹⁴For Jehovah leaveth not His people, And His inheritance forsaketh not.

¹⁵For to righteousness judgment turneth back, And after it all the upright of heart,

¹⁶Who riseth up for me with evil doers? Who stationeth himself for me with workers of iniquity?

¹⁷Unless Jehovah were a help to me, My soul had almost inhabited silence.

¹⁸If I have said, ‘My foot hath slipped,’ Thy kindness, O Jehovah, supporteth me.

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

²⁰Is a throne of mischief joined with Thee? A framer of perverseness by statute?

²¹They decree against the soul of the righteous, And innocent blood declare wicked.

²²And Jehovah is for a high place to me, And my God is for a rock—my refuge,

²³And turneth back on them their iniquity, And in their wickedness cutteth them off; Jehovah our God doth cut them off!

Psalm 95