Psalms 94

1 Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out.⋮

2 Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve.⋮

3 Yahweh, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph?⋮

4 They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.⋮

5 They break your people in pieces, Yahweh, and afflict your heritage.⋮

6 They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.⋮

7 They say, “Yah will not see, neither will Jacob’s God consider.”⋮

8 Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?⋮

9 He who implanted the ear, won’t he hear? He who formed the eye, won’t he see?⋮

10 He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish? He who teaches man knows.⋮

11 Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.⋮

12 Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law,⋮

13 that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.⋮

14 For Yahweh won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.⋮

15 For judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright in heart shall follow it.⋮

16 Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?⋮

17 Unless Yahweh had been my help, my soul would have soon lived in silence.⋮

18 When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.⋮

19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul.⋮

20 Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute?⋮

21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.⋮

22 But Yahweh has been my high tower, my God, the rock of my refuge.⋮

23 He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.⋮