Chapter 94
- The Lord Will Not Forsake His People O Adonai, God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, shine forth!
- Rise up, O judge of the earth; repay to the proud what they deserve!
- O Adonai, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult?
- They pour out their arrogant words; all the evildoers boast.
- They crush your people, O Adonai, and afflict your heritage.
- They kill the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless;
- and they say, The Lord does not see; the Elohim of Jacob does not perceive.
- Understand, O dullest of the people! Fools, when will you be wise?
- He who planted the ear, does he not hear? He who formed the eye, does he not see?
- He who disciplines the nations, does he not rebuke? He who teaches man knowledge —
- the Lord — knows the thoughts of man, that they are but a breath.
- Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Adonai, and whom you teach out of your law,
- to give him rest from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked.
- For the Lord will not forsake his people; he will not abandon his heritage;
- for justice will return to the righteous, and all the upright in heart will follow it.
- Who rises up for me against the wicked? Who stands up for me against evildoers?
- If the Lord had not been my help, my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence.
- When I thought, My foot slips, your steadfast love, O Adonai, held me up.
- When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul.
- Can wicked rulers be allied with you, those who frame injustice by statute?
- They band together against the life of the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.
- But the Lord has become my stronghold, and my God the rock of my refuge.
- He will bring back on them their iniquity and wipe them out for their wickedness; the Lord our God will wipe them out.