1 Psalm 94 God of Vengeance, Shine Forth O Yahweh, God of 94:1Or avenging acts vengeance,God of 94:1Or avenging acts vengeance, 94:1Or has shone forth shine forth!
2 Be lifted up, O Judge of the earth,Render recompense to the proud.
3 How long shall the wicked, O Yahweh,How long shall the wicked exult?
4 They pour forthwords, they speak arrogantly;All workers of iniquity vaunt themselves.
5 They crush Your people, O Yahweh,And afflict Your inheritance.
6 They slay the widow and the sojournerAnd murder the orphans.
7 They have said, “Yah does not see,Nor does the God of Jacob discern.”
8 ¶Discern, you senseless among the people;And when will you have insight,youfools?
9 He who planted the ear, 94:9Or can does He not hear?He who formed the eye, 94:9Or can does He not see?
10 He who 94:10Or instructs disciplines the nations, will He not rebuke,EvenHe who teaches man knowledge?
11 Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, 94:11 Or For That they are vanity.
12 ¶Blessed is the man whom You discipline, O Yah,And whom You teach out of Your law;
13 That You may grant him calm from the days of calamity,Until a pit is dug for the wicked.
14 For Yahweh will not abandon His people,Nor will He forsake His inheritance.
15 For 94:15Administration of justice judgment will 94:15Lit return to righteousness again be righteous,And all the upright in heart will 94:15Lit be after it follow it.
16 Who will arise for me against evildoers?Who will take his stand for me against workers of iniquity?
17 ¶If Yahweh had not been my help,My soul would soon have dwelt inthe abode ofsilence.
18 If I should say, “My foot has stumbled,”Your lovingkindness, O Yahweh, will hold me up.
19 When my anxious thoughts 94:19Or are many multiply within me,Your consolations delight my soul.
20 Can a 94:20Or tribunal throne of destruction be allied with You,One which forms 94:20Or misfortune trouble by statute?
21 They band themselves together against the 94:21Or soul life of the righteousAnd condemn 94:21Lit innocent blood the innocent to death.
22 But Yahweh has been my stronghold,And my God the rock of my refuge.
23 He has brought back their 94:23Or wickedness iniquity upon themAnd will 94:23Or silence destroy them in their evil;Yahweh our God will 94:23Or silence destroy them.