Psalm 94

1 God of vengeance, O YHWH, O God of vengeance, shine forth!

2 Rise up, O Judge of the earth! Return a recompense on the proud.

3 Until when [will] the wicked, O YHWH, until when [will] the wicked exult?

4 They pour out words of arrogance; all the workers of iniquity boast in themselves.

5 Your people, O YHWH, they crush, and Your heritage they afflict.

6 The widow and the foreigner they kill, and the fatherless they murder.

7 And they say, “Yah does not see, and the God of Jacob does not discern.”

8 Discern, O senseless among the people! O fools, when will you⁺ be wise?

9 The One planting the ear, can He not hear? Or the One forming the eye, can He not see?

10 The One disciplining the nations, does He not correct—the One teaching a man knowledge?

11 YHWH knows the thoughts of man, that they [are] vapor.

12 Blessed [is] the man whom You instruct, O YAH, and teach him from Your law,

13 that You may give rest to him from the days of evil, until a pit is dug for the wicked.

14 For YHWH will not forsake His people, and he will not forsake His inheritance.

15 But to righteousness the judgment will return, and all the upright of heart will follow it.

16 Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?

17 Unless YHWH [had been] the help for me, My soul would soon have dwelt in silence.

18 When I said, “My foot is slipping,” Your loving devotion, O YHWH, supports me.

19 In the abundance of my anxieties within me, Your comforts delighted my soul.

20 Can the throne of iniquity join with You—one shaping mischief by statute?

21 They band together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood.

22 And YHWH has become for me as a place up high, and my God as the rock of my refuge.

23 And He has turned back upon them their own iniquity, and in their wickedness He will finish them off—YHWH our God, will finish them off!