Psalms - Chapter 94 | English Standard Version

  • 1. O LORD, God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, shine forth!
  • 2. Rise up, O judge of the earth; repay to the proud what they deserve!
  • 3. O LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult?
  • 4. They pour out their arrogant words; all the evildoers boast.
  • 5. They crush your people, O LORD, and afflict your heritage.
  • 6. They kill the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless;
  • 7. and they say, "The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob does not perceive."
  • 8. Understand, O dullest of the people! Fools, when will you be wise?
  • 9. He who planted the ear, does he not hear? He who formed the eye, does he not see?
  • 10. He who disciplines the nations, does he not rebuke? He who teaches man knowledge--
  • 11. the LORD--knows the thoughts of man, that they are but a breath.
  • 12. Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O LORD, and whom you teach out of your law,
  • 13. to give him rest from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked.
  • 14. For the LORD will not forsake his people; he will not abandon his heritage;
  • 15. for justice will return to the righteous, and all the upright in heart will follow it.
  • 16. Who rises up for me against the wicked? Who stands up for me against evildoers?
  • 17. If the LORD had not been my help, my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence.
  • 18. When I thought, "My foot slips," your steadfast love, O LORD, held me up.
  • 19. When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul.
  • 20. Can wicked rulers be allied with you, those who frame injustice by statute?
  • 21. They band together against the life of the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.
  • 22. But the LORD has become my stronghold, and my God the rock of my refuge.
  • 23. He will bring back on them their iniquity and wipe them out for their wickedness; the LORD our God will wipe them out.
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