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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