94:1 O LORD, the God who avenges! O God who avenges, reveal your splendor!
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?
94:4 They spew out threats and speak defiantly; all the evildoers boast.
94:5 O LORD, they crush your people; they oppress the nation that belongs to you.
94:6 They kill the widow and the one residing outside his native land, and they murder the fatherless.
94:7 Then they say, "The LORD does not see this; the God of Jacob does not take notice of it."
94:8 Take notice of this, you ignorant people! 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?
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.
94:12 How blessed is the one whom you instruct, O LORD, the one whom you teach from your law,
94:13 in order to protect him from times of trouble, until the wicked are destroyed.
94:14 Certainly the LORD does not forsake his people; he does not abandon the nation that belongs to him.
94:15 For justice will prevail, and all the morally upright will be vindicated.
94:16 Who will rise up to defend me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?
94:17 If the LORD had not helped me, I would have laid down in the silence of death.
94:18 If I say, "My foot is slipping," your loyal love, O LORD, supports me.
94:19 When worries threaten to overwhelm me, your soothing touch makes me happy.
94:20 Cruel rulers are not your allies, those who make oppressive laws.
94:21 They conspire against the blameless, and condemn to death the innocent.
94:22 But the LORD will protect me, and my God will shelter me.
94:23 He will pay them back for their sin. He will destroy them because of their evil; the LORD our God will destroy them.
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