Psalm 94:1-23
[1]O Lord God, You to Whom vengeance belongs, O God, You to Whom vengeance belongs, shine forth!
[2]Rise up, O Judge of the earth; render to the proud a fit compensation!
[3]Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph and exult?
[4]They pour out arrogant words, speaking hard things; all the evildoers boast loftily. [Jude 14, 15.]
[5]They crush Your people, O Lord, and afflict Your heritage.
[6]They slay the widow and the transient stranger and murder the unprotected orphan.
[7]Yet they say, The Lord does not see, neither does the God of Jacob notice it.
[8]Consider and understand, you stupid ones among the people! And you [self-confident] fools, when will you become wise?
[9]He Who planted the ear, shall He not hear? He Who formed the eye, shall He not see?
[10]He Who disciplines and instructs the nations, shall He not punish, He Who teaches man knowledge?
[11]The Lord knows the thoughts of man, that they are vain (empty and futileโonly a breath). [I Cor. 3:20.]
[12]Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the man whom You discipline and instruct, O Lord, and teach out of Your law,
[13]That You may give him power to keep himself calm in the days of adversity, until the [inevitable] pit of corruption is dug for the wicked.
[14]For the Lord will not cast off nor spurn His people, neither will He abandon His heritage.
[15]For justice will return to the [uncompromisingly] righteous, and all the upright in 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 the Lord had been my help, I would soon have dwelt in [the land where there is] silence.
[18]When I said, My foot is slipping, Your mercy and loving-kindness, O Lord, held me up.
[19]In the multitude of my [anxious] thoughts within me, Your comforts cheer and delight my soul!
[20]Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with Youโthey who frame and hide their unrighteous doings under [the sacred name of] law?
[21]They band themselves together against the life of the [consistently] righteous and condemn the innocent to death.
[22]But the Lord has become my High Tower and Defense, and my God the Rock of my refuge.
[23]And He will turn back upon them their own iniquity and will wipe them out by means of their own wickedness; the Lord our God will wipe them out.

