Psalmen 94

1. ¹O LORD, Thou God to whom vengeance belongeth, Thou God to whom vengeance belongeth, shine forth.
2. ²Lift up Thyself, Thou Judge of the earth; render to the proud their recompense.
3. ³LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult?
4. ⁴They gush out, they speak arrogancy; all the workers of iniquity bear themselves loftily.
5. ⁵They crush Thy people, O LORD, and afflict Thy heritage.
6. ⁶They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
7. ⁷And they say: 'The LORD will not see, neither will the God of Jacob give heed.'
8. ⁸Consider, ye brutish among the people; and ye fools, when will ye understand?
9. ⁹He that planted the ear, shall He not hear? He that formed the eye, shall He not see?
10. ¹⁰He that instructeth nations, shall not He correct? even He that teacheth man knowledge?
11. ¹¹The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
12. ¹²Happy is the man whom Thou instructest, O LORD, and teachest out of Thy law;
13. ¹³That Thou mayest give him rest from the days of evil, until the pit be digged for the wicked.
14. ¹⁴For the LORD will not cast off His people, neither will He forsake His inheritance.
15. ¹⁵For right shall return unto justice, and all the upright in heart shall follow it.
16. ¹⁶Who will rise up for me against the evil-doers? Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
17. ¹⁷Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had soon dwelt in silence.
18. ¹⁸If I say: 'My foot slippeth', Thy mercy, O LORD, holdeth me up.
19. ¹⁹When my cares are many within me, Thy comforts delight my soul.
20. ²⁰Shall the seat of wickedness have fellowship with Thee, which frameth mischief by statute?
21. ²¹They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood.
22. ²²But the LORD hath been my high tower, and my God the rock of my refuge.
23. ²³And He hath brought upon them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own evil; the LORD our God will cut them off.

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