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Psalm 94

¹O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself.
²Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.
³Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?
⁴How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
⁵They break in pieces thy people, O Lord, and afflict thine heritage.
⁶They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
⁷Yet they say, The Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.
⁸Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
⁹He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
¹⁰He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?
¹¹The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
¹²Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law;
¹³That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.
¹⁴For the Lord will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
¹⁵But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.
¹⁶Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
¹⁷Unless the Lord had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.
¹⁸When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O Lord, held me up.
¹⁹In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.
²⁰Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?
²¹They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
²²But the Lord is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge.
²³And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the Lord our God shall cut them off.

⁷And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the congregation. And it came to pass, that every one which sought the Lord went out unto the tabernacle of the congregation, which was without the camp.
⁸And it came to pass, when Moses went out unto the tabernacle, that all the people rose up, and stood every man at his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into the tabernacle.
⁹And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the Lord talked with Moses.
¹⁰And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle door: and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man in his tent door.
¹¹And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.
¹²And Moses said unto the Lord, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight.
¹³Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.
¹⁴And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.
¹⁵And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.
¹⁶For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.
¹⁷And the Lord said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.
¹⁸And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.
¹⁹And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.
²⁰And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.
²¹And the Lord said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:
²²And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:
²³And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.

11Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
²For by it the elders obtained a good report.
³Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
⁴By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
⁵By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
⁶But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
⁷By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
⁸By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
⁹By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
¹⁰For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
¹¹Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
¹²Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
¹³These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
¹⁴For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
¹⁵And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
¹⁶But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.