Psalms 94 : 1 (NET)
O LORD, the God who avenges! O God who avenges, reveal your splendor!
Psalms 94 : 2 (NET)
Rise up, O judge of the earth! Pay back the proud!
Psalms 94 : 3 (NET)
O LORD, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked celebrate?
Psalms 94 : 4 (NET)
They spew out threats and speak defiantly; all the evildoers boast.
Psalms 94 : 5 (NET)
O LORD, they crush your people; they oppress the nation that belongs to you.
Psalms 94 : 6 (NET)
They kill the widow and the one residing outside his native land, and they murder the fatherless.
Psalms 94 : 7 (NET)
Then they say, "The LORD does not see this; the God of Jacob does not take notice of it."
Psalms 94 : 8 (NET)
Take notice of this, you ignorant people! You fools, when will you ever understand?
Psalms 94 : 9 (NET)
Does the one who makes the human ear not hear? Does the one who forms the human eye not see?
Psalms 94 : 10 (NET)
Does the one who disciplines the nations not punish? He is the one who imparts knowledge to human beings!
Psalms 94 : 11 (NET)
The LORD knows that peoples' thoughts are morally bankrupt.
Psalms 94 : 12 (NET)
How blessed is the one whom you instruct, O LORD, the one whom you teach from your law,
Psalms 94 : 13 (NET)
in order to protect him from times of trouble, until the wicked are destroyed.
Psalms 94 : 14 (NET)
Certainly the LORD does not forsake his people; he does not abandon the nation that belongs to him.
Psalms 94 : 15 (NET)
For justice will prevail, and all the morally upright will be vindicated.
Psalms 94 : 16 (NET)
Who will rise up to defend me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?
Psalms 94 : 17 (NET)
If the LORD had not helped me, I would have laid down in the silence of death.
Psalms 94 : 18 (NET)
If I say, "My foot is slipping," your loyal love, O LORD, supports me.
Psalms 94 : 19 (NET)
When worries threaten to overwhelm me, your soothing touch makes me happy.
Psalms 94 : 20 (NET)
Cruel rulers are not your allies, those who make oppressive laws.
Psalms 94 : 21 (NET)
They conspire against the blameless, and condemn to death the innocent.
Psalms 94 : 22 (NET)
But the LORD will protect me, and my God will shelter me.
Psalms 94 : 23 (NET)
He will pay them back for their sin. He will destroy them because of their evil; the LORD our God will destroy them.
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