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? 1
94:4 They spew out threats 2 and speak defiantly;
all the evildoers boast. 3
94:5 O Lord, they crush your people;
they oppress the nation that belongs to you. 4
94:6 They kill the widow and the one residing outside his native land,
and they murder the fatherless. 5
94:7 Then they say, “The Lord does not see this;
the God of Jacob does not take notice of it.” 6
94:8 Take notice of this, 7 you ignorant people! 8
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? 9
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. 10
94:12 How blessed is the one 11 whom you instruct, O Lord,
the one whom you teach from your law,
94:13 in order to protect him from times of trouble, 12
until the wicked are destroyed. 13
94:14 Certainly 14 the Lord does not forsake his people;
he does not abandon the nation that belongs to him. 15
94:15 For justice will prevail, 16
and all the morally upright 17 will be vindicated. 18
94:16 Who will rise up to defend me 19 against the wicked?
Who will stand up for me against the evildoers? 20
94:17 If the Lord had not helped me,
I would have laid down in the silence of death. 21
94:18 If I say, “My foot is slipping,”
your loyal love, O Lord, supports me.
94:19 When worries threaten to overwhelm me, 22
your soothing touch makes me happy. 23
94:20 Cruel rulers 24 are not your allies,
those who make oppressive laws. 25
94:21 They conspire against 26 the blameless, 27
and condemn to death the innocent. 28
94:22 But the Lord will protect me, 29
and my God will shelter me. 30
94:23 He will pay them back for their sin. 31
He will destroy them because of 32 their evil;
the Lord our God will destroy them.