94 Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs,
    you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out.
² Rise up, you judge of the earth.
    Pay back the proud what they deserve.
³ Yahweh, how long will the wicked,
    how long will the wicked triumph?
⁴ They pour out arrogant words.
    All the evildoers boast.
⁵ They break your people in pieces, Yahweh,
    and afflict your heritage.
⁶ They kill the widow and the alien,
    and murder the fatherless.
⁷ They say, “Yah will not see,
    neither will Jacob’s God consider.”
⁸ Consider, you senseless among the people;
    you fools, when will you be wise?
⁹ He who implanted the ear, won’t he hear?
    He who formed the eye, won’t he see?
¹⁰ He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish?
    He who teaches man knows.
¹¹ Yahweh knows the thoughts of man,
    that they are futile.
¹² Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah,
    and teach out of your law,
¹³ that you may give him rest from the days of adversity,
    until the pit is dug for the wicked.
¹⁴ For Yahweh won’t reject his people,
    neither will he forsake his inheritance.
¹⁵ For judgment will return to righteousness.
    All the upright in heart shall follow it.
¹⁶ Who will rise up for me against the wicked?
    Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?
¹⁷ Unless Yahweh had been my help,
    my soul would have soon lived in silence.
¹⁸ When I said, “My foot is slipping!”
    Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.
¹⁹ In the multitude of my thoughts within me,
    your comforts delight my soul.
²⁰ Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you,
    which brings about mischief by statute?
²¹ They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous,
    and condemn the innocent blood.
²² But Yahweh has been my high tower,
    my God, the rock of my refuge.
²³ He has brought on them their own iniquity,
    and will cut them off in their own wickedness.
    Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.