Chapter 94

  Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs, You God to whom vengeance belongs, shine forth.  

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  Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve.  

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  Yahweh, how long will the wicked, How long will the wicked triumph?  

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  They pour out arrogant words. All the evil-doers boast.  

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  They break your people in pieces, Yahweh, And afflict your heritage.  

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  They kill the widow and the alien, And murder the fatherless.  

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  They say, 'Yah will not see, Neither will Jacob's God consider.'  

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  Consider, you senseless among the people; You fools, when will you be wise?  

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  He who implanted the ear, won't he hear? He who formed the eye, won't he see?  

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  He who disciplines the nations, won't he punish? He who teaches man knows.  

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  Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, That they are futile.  

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  Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, And teach out of your law;  

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  That you may give him rest from the days of adversity, Until the pit is dug for the wicked.  

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  For Yahweh won't reject his people, Neither will he forsake his inheritance.  

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  For judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright in heart shall follow it.  

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  Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evil-doers?  

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  Unless Yahweh had been my help, My soul would have soon lived in silence.  

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  When I said, 'My foot is slipping!' Your lovingkindness, Yahweh, held me up.  

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  In the multitude of my thoughts within me, Your comforts delight my soul.  

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  Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, Which brings about mischief by statute?  

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  They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, And condemn the innocent blood.  

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  But Yahweh has been my high tower, My God, the rock of my refuge.  

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  He has brought on them their own iniquity, And will cut them off in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off. Psalm 95  

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