  - 94:1 Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs,
- you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine forth.
- 94:2 Rise up, you judge of the earth.
- Pay back the proud what they deserve.
- 94:3 Yahweh, how long will the wicked,
- how long will the wicked triumph?
- 94:4 They pour out arrogant words.
- All the evil-doers boast.
- 94:5 They break your people in pieces, Yahweh,
- and afflict your heritage.
- 94:6 They kill the widow and the alien,
- and murder the fatherless.
- 94:7 They say, "Yah will not see,
- neither will Jacob's God consider."
- 94:8 Consider, you senseless among the people;
- you fools, when will you be wise?
- 94:9 He who implanted the ear, won't he hear?
- He who formed the eye, won't he see?
- 94:10 He who disciplines the nations, won't he punish?
- He who teaches man knows.
- 94:11 Yahweh knows the thoughts of man,
- that they are futile.
- 94:12 Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah,
- and teach out of your law;
- 94:13 that you may give him rest from the days of adversity,
- until the pit is dug for the wicked.
- 94:14 For Yahweh won't reject his people,
- neither will he forsake his inheritance.
- 94:15 For judgment will return to righteousness.
- All the upright in heart shall follow it.
- 94:16 Who will rise up for me against the wicked?
- Who will stand up for me against the evil-doers?
- 94:17 Unless Yahweh had been my help,
- my soul would have soon lived in silence.
- 94:18 When I said, "My foot is slipping!"
- Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.
- 94:19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me,
- your comforts delight my soul.
- 94:20 Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you,
- which brings about mischief by statute?
- 94:21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous,
- and condemn the innocent blood.
- 94:22 But Yahweh has been my high tower,
- my God, the rock of my refuge.
- 94:23 He 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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