Chapter 94

  God of vengeance -- Jehovah! God of vengeance, shine forth.  

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  Be lifted up, O Judge of the earth, Send back a recompence on the proud.  

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  Till when [do] the wicked, O Jehovah? Till when do the wicked exult?  

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  They utter -- they speak an old saw, All working iniquity do boast themselves.  

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  Thy people, O Jehovah, they bruise, And Thine inheritance they afflict.  

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  Widow and sojourner they slay, And fatherless ones they murder.  

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  And they say, 'Jehovah doth not see, And the God of Jacob doth not consider.'  

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  Consider, ye brutish among the people, And ye foolish, when do ye act wisely?  

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  He who planteth the ear doth He not hear? He who formeth the eye doth He not see?  

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  He who is instructing nations, Doth He not reprove? He who is teaching man knowledge [is] Jehovah.  

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  He knoweth the thoughts of man, that they [are] vanity.  

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  O the happiness of the man Whom Thou instructest, O Jah, And out of Thy law teachest him,  

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  To give rest to him from days of evil, While a pit is digged for the wicked.  

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  For Jehovah leaveth not His people, And His inheritance forsaketh not.  

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  For to righteousness judgment turneth back, And after it all the upright of heart,  

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  Who riseth up for me with evil doers? Who stationeth himself for me with workers of iniquity?  

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  Unless Jehovah [were] a help to me, My soul had almost inhabited silence.  

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  If I have said, 'My foot hath slipped,' Thy kindness, O Jehovah, supporteth me.  

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  In the abundance of my thoughts within me, Thy comforts delight my soul.  

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  Is a throne of mischief joined [with] Thee? A framer of perverseness by statute?  

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  They decree against the soul of the righteous, And innocent blood declare wicked.  

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  And Jehovah is for a high place to me, And my God [is] for a rock -- my refuge,  

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  And turneth back on them their iniquity, And in their wickedness cutteth them off; Jehovah our God doth cut them off!  

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