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Psalms 94

The LORD Will Not Forget His People

1God of vengeance, the LORD; God of vengeance, shine forth!
2Lift yourself up, Judge of the earth; render recompense to the proud.
3Until when shall the wicked, O LORD, until when shall the wicked exult?
4They pour out, they speak arrogance; all the workers of iniquity boast themselves.
5They crush your people, O LORD, and afflict your inheritance.
6They slay the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless.
7And they say, "Yah does not see, and the God of Jacob does not regard it."
8Understand, you brutish among the people; and you fools, when will you be wise?
9He who planted the ear, shall he not hear? Or he who formed the eye, shall he not see?
10He who chastises the nations, shall he not correct? He who teaches man^a knowledge?
11The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are a breath.
12Blessed is the man whom you chasten, Yah, and whom you teach out of your Torah,
13to give him rest from the days of evil, until a pit is dug for the wicked.
14For the LORD will not cast off his people, and his inheritance he will not forsake.
15For judgment^b shall return to righteousness, and after it all the upright in heart.
16Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? Who will stand for me against the workers of iniquity?
17Unless the LORD had been a help for me, my soul^c had almost dwelt in silence.
18If I said, "My foot slips," your lovingkindness, O LORD, holds me up.
19In the multitude of my anxious thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul.
20Shall the throne of destruction be joined to you, that frames mischief by statute^d?
21They band together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood.
22But the LORD has been my high tower, and my God the rock of my refuge.
23And he has brought back upon them their iniquity, and in their evil he will cut them off; the LORD our God will cut them off.