Psalm 94¹¹

94:1 O LORD, the God who avenges!
O God who avenges, reveal your splendor!¹
94:2 Rise up, O judge of the earth!
Pay back the proud!
94:3 O LORD, how long will the wicked,
how long will the wicked celebrate?²
94:4 They spew out threats³ and speak defiantly,
all the evildoers boast.⁴
94:5 O LORD, they crush your people,
they oppress the nation that belongs to you.⁵
94:6 They kill the widow and the one residing outside his native land,
and they murder the fatherless.⁶
94:7 Then they say, “The LORD does not see this,
the God of Jacob does not take notice of it.”⁷
94:8 Take notice of this,⁸ you ignorant people!⁹
You fools, when will you ever understand?
94:9 Does the one who makes the human ear not hear?
Does the one who forms the human eye not see?¹⁰
94:10 Does the one who disciplines the nations not punish?
He is the one who imparts knowledge to human beings!
94:11 The LORD knows that
peoples’ thoughts are morally bankrupt.¹¹
94:12 How happy is the one¹² whom you instruct, O LORD,
the one whom you teach from your law,
94:13 in order to protect him from times of trouble,¹³
until the wicked are destroyed.¹⁴
94:14 Certainly¹⁵ the LORD does not forsake his people,
he does abandon the nation that belongs to him.¹⁶
94:15 For justice will prevail,¹⁷
and all the morally upright¹⁸ will be vindicated.¹⁹
94:16 Who will rise up to defend me²⁰ against the wicked?
Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?²¹
94:17 If the LORD had not helped me,
I would have lied down in the silence of death.²²
94:18 If I say, “My foot is slipping,”
your loyal love, O LORD, supports me.
94:19 When worries threaten to overwhelm me,²³
your soothing touch makes me happy.²⁴
94:20 Cruel rulers are not your allies,
those who make oppressive laws.²⁵
94:21 They conspire against²⁶ the blameless,²⁷
and condemn to death the innocent.²⁸
94:22 But the LORD will protect me,²⁹
and my God will shelter me.³⁰
94:23 He will pay them back for their sin.³¹
He will destroy them because of³² their evil,
the LORD our God will destroy them.