Psalms 94
94
God of Vengeance
A Wednesday song composed by King David # 94 This inscription is taken from the Septuagint. The Mishnah states that this psalm was sung by the Levites on the fourth day of the week, each Wednesday, in the temple.
1Lord God Almighty, you are the God
who takes vengeance on your enemies.
It’s time for you to punish evil!
Let your rays of revelation-light shine from your people and
pierce the conscience of the wicked and punish them.
2It’s time to arise as judge of all the earth;
arise to punish the proud with the penalty they deserve!
3How much longer will you sit back and watch the wicked
triumph in their evil, boasting in all that is wrong?
4-5Listen to them bragging among themselves,
big in their own eyes, all because of the crimes
they’ve committed against your people!
See how they’re crushing those who love you, God,
cruelly oppressing those who belong to you. # 94:4–5 Or “[the people of] his inheritance.” (See also v. 14.)
6Heartlessly they murder the widows, the foreigners,
and even the orphaned children.
7They say to themselves, “The Lord God doesn’t see this.
Their God, the God of Jacob, he doesn’t even care!”
8But you’d better watch out, you stupid fools!
You’d better wise up! Why would you act like God doesn’t exist?
Do you really think that God can’t hear their cries?
9God isn’t hard of hearing; he’ll hear all their cries.
God isn’t blind. He who made the eye has superb vision,
and he’s watching all you do.
10Won’t the God who knows all things know what you’ve done?
The God who punishes nations will surely punish you!
11The Lord has fully examined every thought of man
and found them all to be empty and futile.
12Lord Yah, there’s such a blessing that comes
when you teach us your Word and your ways. # 94:12 Or “from your Torah.”
Even the sting of your correction can be sweet.
13It rescues us from our days of trouble
until you are ready to punish the wicked. # 94:13 Or “until a pit is dug for the wicked.”
14For the Lord will never walk away from his cherished ones,
nor would he forsake his chosen ones who belong to him. # 94:14 Or “[the people of] his inheritance.”
15Whenever you pronounce judgments, they reveal righteousness. # 94:15 Or “justice will prevail.”
All your devoted lovers will be pleased. # 94:15 The Hebrew reads “and after it [judgment] are the pure in heart.”
16Lord, who will protect me from these wicked ones?
If you don’t stand to defend me, who will? I have no one but you!
17I would have been killed so many times
if you had not been there for me.
18When I screamed out, “Lord, I’m doomed!”
your fiery love was stirred, and you raced to my rescue.
19Whenever my busy thoughts were out of control,
the soothing comfort of your presence
calmed me down and overwhelmed me with delight.
20It’s obvious to all; you will have nothing to do
with corrupt rulers who pass laws that empower evil
and defeat what is right.
21For they gang up against the lovers of righteousness
and condemn the innocent to death.
22-23But I know that all their evil plans will boomerang back onto them.
Every plot they hatch will simply seal their own doom.
For you, my God, you will destroy them,
giving them what they deserve.
For you are my true tower of strength,
my safe place, my hideout, and my true shelter.
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1The Lord is a God of vengeance! God of vengeance, shine out!#94:1. The shining out of God's vengeance is a call for the display of justice and right. Vengeance when it is applied to God should not be taken as a vindictive action of retaliation as human beings do when they exact revenge. It is an establishing of what is right, correcting wrongs, and making sure there is resolution to the problem of evil.
2Stand up, judge of the earth, and pay back those who are proud what they deserve.
3How long, Lord? How long will the wicked celebrate in triumph?
4How long will you let them pour out their arrogant words? How long will these evil people go on boasting?
5Lord, they crush your people; they oppress those you call your own.
6They kill widows and foreigners; they murder orphans.
7They say, “The Lord can't see what we're doing. Israel's God doesn't pay any attention to us.”
8Take another look, you stupid people! Fools—when will you ever get the point?
9Do you think the creator of the ear can't hear? Do you think the maker of the eye can't see?
10Do you think that the one who punishes nations won't punish you too? Do you think that the one who teaches human beings knowledge doesn't know anything?#94:10. “Doesn't know anything”—implied.
11The Lord knows the thoughts of human beings—he knows they are pointless.
12Those you discipline are happy, Lord; those you teach from your Law.
13You give them peace in days of trouble, until a pit is dug to trap the wicked.
14For the Lord will not give up on his people; he will not abandon his own.
15Justice will once again be based on what is right; those who are sincere will support it.
16Who came to my defense against the wicked; who stood up for me against those who do evil?
17If the Lord hadn't helped me, I would have soon gone down into the silence of the grave.
18I shouted out, “My foot's slipping!” and your trustworthy love, Lord, kept me from falling.
19When my mind was full of worries, you comforted me and encouraged me.
20Can unjust judges really be on your side, Lord, when their corrupt use of the law causes misery?
21They work together to destroy good people; they condemn those who are innocent to death.
22But the Lord protects me like a fortress; my God is the rock that keeps me safe.
23He will turn the wickedness of evil people back upon them; he will destroy them because of their sins; the Lord our God will destroy them.
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