PSALM 94
1God of vengeance, O LORD,
God of vengeance, shine forth!
2Rise up, O judge of the earth,
bring down on the proud requital.
3How long the wicked, O LORD,
how long will the wicked exult?
4They utter arrogance, speak it,
all the wrongdoers bandy boasts.
5Your people, O LORD, they crush,
and Your estate they abuse.
6Widow and sojourner they kill,
and orphans they murder.
7And they say, “Yah will not see,
and the God of Jacob will not heed.”
8Take heed, you brutes in the people,
and you fools, when will you be wise?
9Who plants the ear, will He not hear?
Who fashions the eye, will He not look?
10The chastiser of nations, will He not punish,
Who teaches humankind knowledge?
11The LORD knows human designs,
that they are mere breath.
12Happy the man whom Yah chastises,
and whom from His teaching He instructs,
13to make him quiet in evil days
until a pit is dug for the wicked.
14For the LORD will not abandon His people,
and His estate He will not forsake.
15For justice will join with judgment,
and all the upright will follow it.
16Who will rise for me against evildoers,
who will take a stand for me against the wrongdoers?
17Were not the LORD a help to me,
I would have almost dwelled in the silent realm.
18When I thought my foot had stumbled,
Your kindness, LORD, sustained me.
19With my many cares within me,
Your consolations delighted me.
20Will the throne of disaster consort with You,
that fashions trouble against the law?
21They band together against the just man’s life,
22But the LORD became my fortress,
and my God, my sheltering rock.
23He will turn back against them their wickedness,
through their evil He will destroy them,