Chapter 94

  O ùGod of vengeances, Jehovah, ùGod of vengeances, shine forth;  

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  Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth, render the reward to the proud.  

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  How long shall the wicked, O Jehovah, how long shall the wicked triumph?  

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  [How long] shall they utter [and] speak insolence -- all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?  

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  They crush thy people, O Jehovah, and afflict thine inheritance;  

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  They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless,  

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  And say, Jah will not see, neither will the God of Jacob regard [it].  

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  Understand, ye brutish among the people; and ye fools, when will ye be wise?  

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  He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? He that formed the eye, shall he not see?  

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  He that instructeth the nations, shall not he correct -- he that teacheth man knowledge?  

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  Jehovah knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.  

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  Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Jah, and whom thou teachest out of thy law;  

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  That thou mayest give him rest from the days of evil, until the pit be digged for the wicked.  

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  For Jehovah will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance;  

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  For judgment shall return unto righteousness, and all the upright in heart shall follow it.  

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  Who will rise up for me against the evil-doers? who will stand for me against the workers of iniquity?  

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  If Jehovah had not been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.  

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  When I said, My foot slippeth, thy loving-kindness, O Jehovah, held me up.  

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  In the multitude of my anxious thoughts within me thy comforts have delighted my soul.  

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  Shall the throne of wickedness be united to thee, which frameth mischief into a law?  

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  They band together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood.  

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  But Jehovah will be my high tower; and my God the rock of my refuge.  

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  And he will bring upon them their iniquity, and will cut them off in their own evil: Jehovah our God will cut them off.  

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