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Psalm 94

¹O Lord, you God of vengeance, you God of vengeance, shine forth!

²Rise up, O judge of the earth; give to the proud what they deserve!

³O Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult?

⁴They pour out their arrogant words; all the evildoers boast.

⁵They crush your people, O Lord, and afflict your heritage.

⁶They kill the widow and the stranger, they murder the orphan,

⁷and they say, “The Lord does not see; the God of Jacob does not perceive.”

⁸Understand, O dullest of the people; fools, when will you be wise?

⁹He who planted the ear, does he not hear? He who formed the eye, does he not see?

¹⁰He who disciplines the nations, he who teaches knowledge to humankind, does he not chastise?

¹¹The Lord knows our thoughts, that they are but an empty breath.

¹²Happy are those whom you discipline, O Lord, and whom you teach out of your law,

¹³giving them respite from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked.

¹⁴For the Lord will not forsake his people; he will not abandon his heritage;

¹⁵for justice will return to the righteous, and all the upright in heart will follow it.

¹⁶Who rises up for me against the wicked? Who stands up for me against evildoers?

¹⁷If the Lord had not been my help, my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence.

¹⁸When I thought, “My foot is slipping,” your steadfast love, O Lord, held me up.

¹⁹When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul.

²⁰Can wicked rulers be allied with you, those who contrive mischief by statute?

²¹They band together against the life of the righteous, and condemn the innocent to death.

²²But the Lord has become my stronghold, and my God the rock of my refuge.

²³He will repay them for their iniquity and wipe them out for their wickedness; the Lord our God will wipe them out.