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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1O Lord-Yehōvah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], to whom vengeance belongs; O God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], to whom vengeance belongs, show yourself.
2Lift up yourself, youi judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.
3Lord-Yehōvah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate], how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?
4 [How long] shall they utter [and] speak hard things? [and] all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
5They break in pieces youri people, O Lord-Yehōvah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate], and afflict youri heritage.
6They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
7Yet they say, The Lord- Yah [Behold The Hand] (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) shall not see, neither shall the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Ya’akov [Heel of God] regard [it].
8Understand, you2f “stupid as a beast” among the people: and [you2f] fools, when will you2f be wise?
9He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
10He that chastises the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teaches man knowledge, [shall not he know]?
11The Lord-Yehōvah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] knows the thoughts of man, that they [are] vanity.
12Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) [is] the man whom youi chasten, O Lord- [Yah] (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and teaches him out of youri law;
13That youi may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.
14For the Lord-Yehōvah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
15But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.
16Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? [or] who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
17Unless the Lord-Yehōvah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] [had been] my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.
18When I said, My foot slips; youi mercy, O Lord-Yehōvah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate], held me up.
19In the multitude of my thoughts within me youri comforts delight my soul.
20Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with youi, which frames mischief by a law?
21They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
22But the Lord-Yehōvah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] is my defense; and my God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] [is] the rock of my refuge.
23And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; [yea], the Lord-Yehōvah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] shall cut them off.
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