PSALMS 94:4-23

⁴They prate, they speak arrogantly: 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.

⁷And they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob consider.

⁸Consider, 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 nations, shall not he correct, even he that teacheth man knowledge?

¹¹The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

¹²Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest 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.

¹⁵For judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.

¹⁶Who will rise up for me against the evil-doers? who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?

¹⁷Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had soon 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 wickedness have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by statute?

²¹They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

²²But the LORD hath been my high tower; and my God the rock of my refuge.

²³And he hath brought upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own evil; the LORD our God shall cut them off.