Psalm 94

Rise up, judge of the earth, return recompense upon the proud. \* 3 Until when will the wicked, God, until when will the wicked rejoice? 4 They pour out, they speak, arrogance; all doers of evil praise themselves. \* 5 They crush your people, God; they afflict your inheritance. 6 They kill the widow and the sojourner, and they murder the fatherless. 7 They say, “Yah does not see, the God of Jacob does not perceive.” \* 8 Understand, stupid ones among the people! O fools, when will you have insight? 9 The one planting the ear, does he not hear? Or the one forming the eye, does he not observe? \* 10 The one instructing nations, does he not rebuke? Does the one teaching mankind lack knowledge? 11 God knows the thoughts of mankind, that they are vapor. \* 12 The joys of the man whom you instruct, Yah, and from your law you teach him, 13 to give rest to him from days of evil until a pit is dug for the wicked. \* 14 For God will not forsake his people and he will not abandon his inheritance. 15 For judgment will return to the right; and all the upright in heart {are} after it. 16 Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? Who will stand up for me against the workers of wickedness? \* 17 Unless God {had been} a help to me, shortly my soul would have dwelt in silence. 18 When I said, “My foot is slipping,” Your covenant faithfulness, God, supported me. 19 When my cares within me {are} many, your consolations gladden my soul. \* 20 Can a throne of destruction be your ally, one creating injustice by statute? 21 They conspire together against the life of the righteous and they condemn innocent blood. \* 22 But God has been to me a high tower, and my God, the rock of my refuge. 23 He will return on them their iniquity and he will destroy them in their wickedness. God our God will destroy them. \*