Psalms - Chapter 94 | Good News Translation

  • 1. LORD, you are a God who punishes; reveal your anger!
  • 2. You are the judge of us all; rise and give the proud what they deserve!
  • 3. How much longer will the wicked be glad? How much longer, LORD?
  • 4. How much longer will criminals be proud and boast about their crimes?
  • 5. They crush your people, LORD; they oppress those who belong to you.
  • 6. They kill widows and orphans, and murder the strangers who live in our land.
  • 7. They say, "The LORD does not see us; the God of Israel does not notice."
  • 8. My people, how can you be such stupid fools? When will you ever learn?
  • 9. God made our ears---can't he hear? He made our eyes---can't he see?
  • 10. He scolds the nations---won't he punish them? He is the teacher of us all---hasn't he any knowledge?
  • 11. The LORD knows what we think; he knows how senseless our reasoning is.
  • 12. LORD, how happy are those you instruct, the ones to whom you teach your law!
  • 13. You give them rest from days of trouble until a pit is dug to trap the wicked.
  • 14. The LORD will not abandon his people; he will not desert those who belong to him.
  • 15. Justice will again be found in the courts, and all righteous people will support it.
  • 16. Who stood up for me against the wicked? Who took my side against the evildoers?
  • 17. If the LORD had not helped me, I would have gone quickly to the land of silence.
  • 18. I said, "I am falling"; but your constant love, O LORD, held me up.
  • 19. Whenever I am anxious and worried, you comfort me and make me glad.
  • 20. You have nothing to do with corrupt judges, who make injustice legal,
  • 21. who plot against good people and sentence the innocent to death.
  • 22. But the LORD defends me; my God protects me.
  • 23. He will punish them for their wickedness and destroy them for their sins; the LORD our God will destroy them.
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