Psalms 94:14-23

¹⁴Yahweh will not abandon his people; he will not desert like that those who belong to him DOU.

¹⁵Some day judges will decide matters fairly for people, and all honest/righteous people will be pleased about that.

¹⁶But when wicked people ◄ oppressed me/treated me cruelly►, ◄who defended me?/no one defended me.► RHQ No one stood up to testify for me against those evil people RHQ.

¹⁷If Yahweh had not helped me at that time, I would have been executed, and my soul/spirit would have gone to the place where dead people say nothing.

¹⁸I said/thought to myself, “I am about to die,” but Yahweh, you held me up by faithfully loving me.

¹⁹Whenever I am very worried, you comfort/encourage me and cause me to be happy.

²⁰You have nothing to do with wicked judges, who establish laws that allow people to do what is not legal.

²¹They plan to get rid of righteous people, and they declare that ◄innocent people/people who have not done what is wrong► must be executed.

²²But Yahweh ◄has become like my fortress/protects me► MET; my God is like a huge rock under which I am protected/safe MET.

²³He will punish those wicked leaders in return for the wicked things that they have done, and will get rid of them for the sins that they have committed; yes, Yahweh our God will ◄wipe them out/destroy them completely►.