| Chapter 94 |
1 | Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs, You God to whom vengeance belongs, shine forth.
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2 | Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve.
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3 | Yahweh, how long will the wicked, How long will the wicked triumph?
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4 | They pour out arrogant words. All the evil-doers boast.
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5 | They break your people in pieces, Yahweh, And afflict your heritage.
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6 | They kill the widow and the alien, And murder the fatherless.
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7 | They say, 'Yah will not see, Neither will Jacob's God consider.'
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8 | Consider, you senseless among the people; You fools, when will you be wise?
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9 | He who implanted the ear, won't he hear? He who formed the eye, won't he see?
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10 | He who disciplines the nations, won't he punish? He who teaches man knows.
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11 | Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, That they are futile.
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12 | Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, And teach out of your law;
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13 | That you may give him rest from the days of adversity, Until the pit is dug for the wicked.
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14 | For Yahweh won't reject his people, Neither will he forsake his inheritance.
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15 | For judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright in heart shall follow it.
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16 | Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evil-doers?
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17 | Unless Yahweh had been my help, My soul would have soon lived in silence.
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18 | When I said, 'My foot is slipping!' Your lovingkindness, Yahweh, held me up.
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19 | In the multitude of my thoughts within me, Your comforts delight my soul.
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20 | Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, Which brings about mischief by statute?
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21 | They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, And condemn the innocent blood.
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22 | But Yahweh has been my high tower, My God, the rock of my refuge.
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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. Psalm 95
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