Psalm 94

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God of Vengeance, Shine Forth

O Yahweh, God of vengeance,

God of vengeance, shine forth!

Be lifted up, O Judge of the earth,

Render recompense to the proud.

How long shall the wicked, O Yahweh,

How long shall the wicked exult?

They pour forth words, they speak arrogantly;

All workers of iniquity vaunt themselves.

They crush Your people, O Yahweh,

And afflict Your inheritance.

They slay the widow and the sojourner

And murder the orphans.

They have said, “Yah does not see,

Nor does the God of Jacob discern.”

Discern, you senseless among the people;

And when will you have insight, you fools?

He who planted the ear, does He not hear?

He who formed the eye, does He not see?

He who disciplines the nations, will He not rebuke,

Even He who teaches man knowledge?

Yahweh knows the thoughts of man,

That they are vanity.

Blessed is the man whom You discipline, O Yah,

And whom You teach out of Your law;

That You may grant him calm from the days of calamity,

Until a pit is dug for the wicked.

For Yahweh will not abandon His people,

Nor will He forsake His inheritance.

For judgment will again be righteous,

And all the upright in heart will follow it.

Who will arise for me against evildoers?

Who will take his stand for me against workers of iniquity?

If Yahweh had not been my help,

My soul would soon have dwelt in the abode of silence.

If I should say, “My foot has stumbled,”

Your lovingkindness, O Yahweh, will hold me up.

When my anxious thoughts multiply within me,

Your consolations delight my soul.

Can a throne of destruction be allied with You,

One which forms trouble by statute?

They band themselves together against the life of the righteous

And condemn the innocent to death.

But Yahweh has been my stronghold,

And my God the rock of my refuge.

He has brought back their iniquity upon them

And will destroy them in their evil;

Yahweh our God will destroy them.

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