Psalms 94

1O Jehovah, thou God to whom vengeance belongeth, Thou God to whom vengeance belongeth, shine forth.

1O God, in whose hands is punishment, O God of punishment, let your shining face be seen.

1Come let us praise the Lord with joy: let us joyfully sing to God our saviour.

2Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: Render to the proudtheir desert.

2Be lifted up, O judge of the earth; let their reward come to the men of pride.

2Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; and make a joyful noise to him with psalms.

3Jehovah, how long shall the wicked, How long shall the wicked triumph?

3How long will sinners, O Lord, how long will sinners have joy over us?

3For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.

4They prate, they speak arrogantly: All the workers of iniquity boast themselves.

4Words of pride come from their lips; all the workers of evil say great things of themselves.

4For in his hand are all the ends of the earth: and the heights of the mountains are his.

5They break in pieces thy people, O Jehovah, And afflict thy heritage.

5Your people are crushed by them, O Lord, your heritage is troubled,

5For the sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.

6They slay the widow and the sojourner, And murder the fatherless.

6They put to death the widow and the guest, they take the lives of children who have no father;

6Come let us adore and fall down: and weep before the Lord that made us.

7And they say, Jehovah will not see, Neither will the God of Jacob consider.

7And they say, Jah will not see it, the God of Jacob will not give thought to it.

7For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand.

8Consider, ye brutish among the people; And ye fools, when will ye be wise?

8Give your mind to my words, you who are without wisdom among the people; you foolish men, when will you be wise?

8To day if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts:

9He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? He that formed the eye, shall he not see?

9Has he by whom your ears were planted no hearing? or is he blind by whom your eyes were formed?

9As in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the wilderness: where your fathers tempted me, they proved me, and saw my works.

10He that chastiseth the nations, shall not he correct, Evenhe that teacheth man knowledge?

10He who is the judge of the nations, will he not give men the reward of their acts, even he who gives knowledge to man?

10Forty years long was I offended with that generation, and I said: These always err in heart.

11Jehovah knoweth the thoughts of man, That they are vanity.

11The Lord has knowledge of the thoughts of man, for they are only a breath.

11And these men have not known my ways: so I swore in my wrath that they shall not enter into my rest.

12Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Jehovah, And teachest out of thy law;

12Happy is the man who is guided by you, O Jah, and to whom you give teaching out of your law;

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13That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, Until the pit be digged for the wicked.

13So that you may give him rest from the days of evil, till a hole is made ready for the destruction of the sinners.

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14For Jehovah will not cast off his people, Neither will he forsake his inheritance.

14The Lord will not give up his people, or take away his support from his heritage;

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15For judgment shall return unto righteousness; And all the upright in heart shall follow it.

15But decisions will again be made in righteousness; and they will be kept by all whose hearts are true.

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16Who will rise up for me against the evil-doers? Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?

16Who will give me help against the sinners? and who will be my support against the workers of evil?

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17Unless Jehovah had been my help, My soul had soon dwelt in silence.

17If the Lord had not been my helper, my soul would quickly have gone down into death.

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18When I said, My foot slippeth; Thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, held me up.

18If I say, My foot is slipping; your mercy, O Lord, is my support.

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19In the multitude of my thoughts within me Thy comforts delight my soul.

19Among all my troubled thoughts, your comforts are the delight of my soul.

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20Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with thee, Which frameth mischief by statute?

20What part with you has the seat of sin, which makes evil into a law?

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21They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, And condemn the innocent blood.

21They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.

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22But Jehovah hath been my high tower, And my God the rock of my refuge.

22But the Lord is my safe resting-place; my God is the Rock where I am safe.

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23And he hath brought upon them their own iniquity, And will cut them off in their own wickedness; Jehovah our God will cut them off.

23And he has made their evil designs come back on themselves, cutting them off in their sin; the Lord our God will put an end to them.

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