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
God judges all people
1 Lord, you are the God
who punishes guilty people.
God, show your power
to punish people as they deserve! #94:1 The writer asks God to punish wicked people. He trusts that God will do what is right, as the great judge.
2 Judge of all people on the earth, do something!
Punish proud people as they deserve!
3How long will wicked people continue to be happy?
Yes, Lord, how long?
4Those people who do evil things
speak many proud words.
They boast about how great they are.
5 Lord, see how they hurt your own people.
They are cruel to the people that belong to you.
6They kill widows
and foreign people who live in our land.
They murder children that have no family.
7They say, ‘The Lord does not see us.
Israel's God does not see what we are doing.’
8Think again, all you fools among the people!
Stupid people, become wise!
9God made our ears!
Can he himself not hear?
He made our eyes!
Does he not see?
10He teaches the nations what is right.
Will he not punish you,
when you do what is wrong?
He teaches people what they should know.
11The Lord knows what people think.
He knows that their thoughts are empty.
12 Lord, when you teach people what is right,
you have really blessed them.
You use your Law to teach them.
13When those people have troubles,
you keep them safe.
Then the wicked people fall into a deep hole
that you have dug to catch them.
14The Lord will not leave his people alone.
He will not forget to help the people that belong to him.
15Once again, judges will do what is right and fair,
and good, honest people will agree.
16Who would fight for me
against the wicked people? #94:16 Now the writer thinks about himself. The Lord God is the only one who can really help him when he is in trouble.
Who would keep me safe
from the people who do evil things?
17Unless the Lord had helped me,
I would soon have become silent in death.
18When I think, ‘I am falling down,’
your faithful love keeps me safe, Lord.
19When I have troubles in my mind,
so that I am afraid,
you help me to be happy again.
20You will not become a friend of cruel rulers.
They make laws that only hurt people.
21They join together to work against good people.
They say that people are guilty
who have done nothing wrong.
They say that they must die.
22But the Lord is a strong place for me.
Yes, my God is a rock
where I can hide and be safe.
23He will punish those wicked leaders.
He will destroy them,
because they do evil things.
The Lord our God will completely destroy them.
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