Psalm 94 - The Scriptures 2009

¹ O יהוה, Ěl of vengeance; O Ěl of vengeance, shine forth!

² Raise Yourself up, O Judge of the earth; Render punishment to the proud.

³ יהוה, how long are the wrong, How long are the wrong going to exult?

⁴ They pour forth words, They speak arrogantly; All the workers of wickedness boast in themselves.

⁵ They crush Your people, O יהוה, And they afflict Your inheritance.

⁶ They kill the widow and the stranger, And murder the fatherless.

⁷ Yet they say, “Yah does not see, And the Elohim of Ya‛aqoḇ pays no heed.”

⁸ Take heed, you senseless among the people; And you fools, when would you become 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 reprove – The One teaching man knowledge?

¹¹ יהוה knows the thoughts of man, That they are but a breath.

¹² Blessed is the man You discipline, O Yah, And instruct out of Your Torah,

¹³ To give him rest from the days of evil, Until the pit is dug for the wrong.

¹⁴ For יהוה does not leave His people, Nor does He forsake His inheritance.

¹⁵ For right-ruling returns man to righteousness, And all the upright in heart follow it.

¹⁶ Who would rise up for me against evil-doers? Who would stand up for me against workers of wickedness?

¹⁷ If יהוה had not been my help, My being would soon have settled in silence.

¹⁸ When I said, “My foot has slipped,” Your loving-commitment, O יהוה, supported me.

¹⁹ When anxiety was great within me, Your comforts delighted my being.

²⁰ Would a throne of destruction, Which devises trouble by law, Be joined with You?

²¹ They band together against the life of the righteous, And declare innocent blood wrong.

²² But יהוה is my defence, And my Elohim the rock of my refuge,

²³ And brings back on them their own wickedness, And cuts them off in their own wrongdoing; יהוה our Elohim does cut them off.