Psalms, 94

^{1 *1} O God^*2 of acts of vengeance, Jehovah, O God of acts of vengeance, beam forth!

² Raise yourself up, O Judge of the earth. Bring back a retribution upon the haughty ones.

³ How long are the wicked, O Jehovah, How long are the wicked themselves going to exult?

⁴ They keep bubbling forth, they keep speaking unrestrained; All the practicers of what is hurtful keep bragging about themselves.

⁵ Your people, O Jehovah, they keep crushing, And your inheritance they keep afflicting.

⁶ The widow and the alien resident they kill, And the fatherless boys they murder.

⁷ And they keep saying: “Jah^*1 does not see; And the God^*2 of Jacob does not understand [it].”

⁸ Understand, YOU who are unreasoning among the people; And as for YOU stupid ones, when will YOU have any insight?

⁹ The One planting the ear, can he not hear? Or the One forming the eye, can he not look?

¹⁰ The One correcting the nations, can he not reprove, Even the One teaching men knowledge?

¹¹ Jehovah is knowing the thoughts of men,^*1 that they are as an exhalation.

¹² Happy is the able-bodied man^*1 whom you correct, O Jah, And whom you teach out of your own law,

¹³ To give him quietness from days of calamity, Until for the wicked one a pit is excavated.

¹⁴ For Jehovah will not forsake his people, Nor will he leave his own inheritance.

¹⁵ For judicial decision will return even to righteousness, And all the upright in heart will follow it.

¹⁶ Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? Who will take his stand for me against the practicers of hurtfulness?

¹⁷ Unless Jehovah had been of assistance to me, In a little while my soul would have resided in silence.

¹⁸ When I said: “My foot will certainly move unsteadily,” Your own loving-kindness, O Jehovah, kept sustaining me.

¹⁹ When my disquieting thoughts became many inside of me, Your own consolations began to fondle my soul.

²⁰ Will the throne causing adversities be allied with you While it is framing trouble by decree?

²¹ They make sharp attacks on the soul of the righteous one And pronounce wicked even the blood of the innocent one.

²² But Jehovah will become a secure height for me, And my God the rock of my refuge.

²³ And he will turn back upon them their hurtfulness And will silence them with their own calamity. Jehovah our God will silence them.