Psalms 94

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

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

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

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

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

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

7 And they say, 'Jehovah doth not see, And the God of Jacob doth not consider.'⋮

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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