Psalms [Praises] 94:5-22

⁵They break your people in pieces, Adonai , and afflict your heritage.

⁶They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.

⁷They say, “Yah will not see, neither will Jacob Supplanter’s God consider.”

⁸Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

⁹He who implanted the ear, won’t he sh'ma ·hear obey·? He who formed the eye, won’t he see?

¹⁰He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish? He who teaches man knows.

¹¹Adonai knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.

¹²Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your Torah ·Teaching·;

¹³that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

¹⁴For Adonai won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

¹⁵For judgment will teshuvah ·completely return· to righteousness. All the upright in heart shall follow it.

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

¹⁷Unless Adonai had been my help, my soul would have soon lived in silence.

¹⁸When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your cheshed ·loving-kindness·, Adonai , held me up.

¹⁹In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul.

²⁰Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute?

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

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