Psalm 94

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94 Lord, you are the God
    who punishes guilty people.
God, show your power
    to punish people as they deserve!^[a]
2 Judge of all people on the earth, do something!
    Punish proud people as they deserve!
³ How long will wicked people continue to be happy?
    Yes, Lord, how long?
⁴ Those people who do evil things
    speak many proud words.
They boast about how great they are.
⁵ Lord, see how they hurt your own people.
    They are cruel to the people that belong to you.
⁶ They kill widows
    and foreign people who live in our land.
They murder children that have no family.
⁷ They say, ‘The Lord does not see us.
    Israel's God does not see what we are doing.’
⁸ Think again, all you fools among the people!
    Stupid people, become wise!
⁹ God made our ears!
    Can he himself not hear?
He made our eyes!
    Does he not see?
¹⁰ He teaches the nations what is right.
Will he not punish you,
    when you do what is wrong?
He teaches people what they should know.
¹¹ The Lord knows what people think.
    He knows that their thoughts are empty.
¹² Lord, when you teach people what is right,
    you have really blessed them.
You use your Law to teach them.
¹³ When those people have troubles,
    you keep them safe.
Then the wicked people fall into a deep hole
    that you have dug to catch them.
¹⁴ The Lord will not leave his people alone.
    He will not forget to help the people that belong to him.
¹⁵ Once again, judges will do what is right and fair,
    and good, honest people will agree.
¹⁶ Who would fight for me
    against the wicked people?^[b]
Who would keep me safe
    from the people who do evil things?
¹⁷ Unless the Lord had helped me,
    I would soon have become silent in death.
¹⁸ When I think, ‘I am falling down,’
    your faithful love keeps me safe, Lord.
¹⁹ When I have troubles in my mind,
    so that I am afraid,
you help me to be happy again.
²⁰ You will not become a friend of cruel rulers.
    They make laws that only hurt people.
²¹ They join together to work against good people.
They say that people are guilty
    who have done nothing wrong.
They say that they must die.
²² But the Lord is a strong place for me.
Yes, my God is a rock
    where I can hide and be safe.
²³ He will punish those wicked leaders.
He will destroy them,
    because they do evil things.
The Lord our God will completely destroy them.