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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PSALM 94
The Lord Implored to Avenge His People.
1O Lord God, You to whom vengeance belongs,
O God, You to whom vengeance belongs, shine forth [in judgment]!
2Rise up, O Judge of the earth;
Give to the proud a fitting compensation.
3O Lord, how long will the wicked,
How long will the wicked rejoice in triumph?
4They pour out words, speaking arrogant things;
All who do evil boast proudly.
5They crush Your people, O Lord,
And afflict and abuse Your heritage.
6 # Widows, resident aliens, and the fatherless were particularly vulnerable members of ancient society, since they often had little or no economic means. The wicked could easily take advantage of them. God in several Old Testament passages commanded Israel to care especially for these helpless members of society. See, for example, Deut 24:17-22; Ps 146:9; Is 1:17; Zech 7:9, 10. They kill the widow and the alien
And murder the fatherless.
7Yet they say, “The Lord does not see,
Nor does the God of Jacob (Israel) notice it.”
8Consider thoughtfully, you senseless (stupid ones) among the people;
And you [dull-minded] fools, when will you become wise and understand?
9He who made the ear, does He not hear?
He who formed the eye, does He not see?
10He who instructs the nations,
Does He not rebuke and punish,
He who teaches man knowledge?
11The Lord knows the thoughts of man,
That they are a mere breath (vain, empty, futile).
12Blessed [with wisdom and prosperity] is the man whom You discipline and instruct, O Lord,
And whom You teach from Your law,
13That You may grant him [power to calm himself and find] peace in the days of adversity,
Until the pit is dug for the wicked and ungodly.
14For the Lord will not abandon His people,
Nor will He abandon His inheritance.
15For judgment will again be righteous,
And all the upright in heart will follow it.
16Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?
Who will take a stand for me against those who do wickedness?
17If the Lord had not been my help,
I would soon have dwelt in [the land of] silence.
18If I say, “My foot has slipped,”
Your compassion and lovingkindness, O Lord, will hold me up.
19When my anxious thoughts multiply within me,
Your comforts delight me.
20Can a throne of destruction be allied with You,
One which frames and devises mischief by decree [under the sacred name of law]?
21They band themselves together against the life of the righteous
And condemn the innocent to death.
22But the Lord has become my high tower and defense,
And my God the rock of my refuge.
23He has turned back their own wickedness upon them
And will destroy them by means of their own evil;
The Lord our God will wipe them out.
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