Psalms 94:4-20

⁴They do evil things, and they boast about doing them; how long will they be allowed to continue doing that?

⁵Yahweh, it is as though those wicked people crush us, your people; they ◄oppress/treat cruelly► those who belong to you DOU.

⁶They murder widows and orphans and people from other countries who think it is safe to live in our land.

⁷Those wicked people say, “Yahweh does not see anything; so the God whom those Israelis worship does not see the evil things that we do.”

⁸You evil people who rule Israel, you are foolish and stupid; when will you become wise RHQ?

⁹God made our ears; so do you think that he cannot hear what you say RHQ? He created our eyes; so do you think that he cannot see the evil things that you do RHQ?

¹⁰He also scolds the leaders of other nations; so do you think that he will not punish you RHQ? He is the one who knows everything; so why do you think that he does not know what you do RHQ?

¹¹Yahweh knows everything that people are thinking; he knows that what they think ◄ is useless/vanishes as quickly as► smoke MET.

¹²Yahweh, you are pleased with people who want you to discipline/correct them, those who want you to teach them your laws.

¹³When those people have had troubles, you cause those troubles to cease, and some day it will be as though you will dig pits for wicked people, and they will fall into those pits and die.

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.