Psalms 94:4-23

⁴They pour out their arrogant words; all those who do evil boast.

⁵They crush your people, Yahweh; they afflict the nation that belongs to you.

⁶They kill the widow and foreigner who lives in their country, and they murder the fatherless.

⁷They say, “Yahweh will not see, the God of Jacob does not take notice of it.”

⁸Understand, you stupid people! You fools, when will you ever learn?

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

¹⁰He who disciplines the nations, does he not correct? He is the one who gives knowledge to man.

¹¹Yahweh knows the thoughts of men, that they are vapor.

¹²Blessed is the one whom you instruct, Yahweh, the one whom you teach from your law.

¹³You give him rest in times of trouble until a pit is dug for the wicked.

¹⁴For Yahweh will not forsake his people or abandon his inheritance.

¹⁵For judgment will again be righteous; and all the upright in heart will follow it.

¹⁶Who will rise up to defend me against the evildoers? Who will stand up for me against the wicked?

¹⁷Unless Yahweh had been my help, I would soon be lying down in the place of silence.

¹⁸When I said, “My foot is slipping,” Your covenant faithfulness, Yahweh, held me up.

¹⁹When cares within me are many, your consolations make me happy.

²⁰Can a throne of destruction be allied with you, one who creates injustice by statute?

²¹They conspire together to take the life of the righteous and they condemn the innocent to death.

²²But Yahweh has been my high tower, and my God has been the rock of my refuge.

²³He will bring on them their own iniquity and will cut them off in their own wickedness. Yahweh our God will cut them off.