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Psalm 94

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