Psalmen 94

1. ¹Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs, You God to whom vengeance belongs, shine forth.
2. ²Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve.
3. ³Yahweh, how long will the wicked, How long will the wicked triumph?
4. ⁴They pour out arrogant words. All the evil-doers boast.
5. ⁵They break your people in pieces, Yahweh, And afflict your heritage.
6. ⁶They kill the widow and the alien, And murder the fatherless.
7. ⁷They say, "Yah will not see, Neither will Jacob's God consider."
8. ⁸Consider, you senseless among the people; You fools, when will you be wise?
9. ⁹He who implanted the ear, won't he hear? He who formed the eye, won't he see?
10. ¹⁰He who disciplines the nations, won't he punish? He who teaches man knows.
11. ¹¹Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, That they are futile.
12. ¹²Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, And teach out of your law;
13. ¹³That you may give him rest from the days of adversity, Until the pit is dug for the wicked.
14. ¹⁴For Yahweh won't reject his people, Neither will he forsake his inheritance.
15. ¹⁵For judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright in heart shall follow it.
16. ¹⁶Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evil-doers?
17. ¹⁷Unless Yahweh had been my help, My soul would have soon lived in silence.
18. ¹⁸When I said, "My foot is slipping!" Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.
19. ¹⁹In the multitude of my thoughts within me, Your comforts delight my soul.
20. ²⁰Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, Which brings about mischief by statute?
21. ²¹They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, And condemn the innocent blood.
22. ²²But Yahweh has been my high tower, My God, the rock of my refuge.
23. ²³He has brought on them their own iniquity, And will cut them off in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.

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