Psalm 94

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁴ They pour out their arrogant words;
    all the evildoers boast.
⁵ They crush your people, O Lord,
    and afflict your heritage.
⁶ They kill the widow and the stranger,
    they murder the orphan,
⁷ and they say, ‘The Lord does not see;
    the God of Jacob does not perceive.’

⁸ Understand, O dullest of the people;
    fools, when will you be wise?
⁹ He who planted the ear, does he not hear?
He who formed the eye, does he not see?
¹⁰ He who disciplines the nations,
he who teaches knowledge to humankind,
    does he not chastise?
¹¹ The Lord knows our thoughts,^[a]
    that they are but an empty breath.

¹² Happy are those whom you discipline, O Lord,
    and whom you teach out of your law,
¹³ giving them respite from days of trouble,
    until a pit is dug for the wicked.
¹⁴ For the Lord will not forsake his people;
    he will not abandon his heritage;
¹⁵ for justice will return to the righteous,
    and all the upright in heart will follow it.

¹⁶ Who rises up for me against the wicked?
    Who stands up for me against evildoers?
¹⁷ If the Lord had not been my help,
    my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence.
¹⁸ When I thought, ‘My foot is slipping’,
    your steadfast love, O Lord, held me up.
¹⁹ When the cares of my heart are many,
    your consolations cheer my soul.
²⁰ Can wicked rulers be allied with you,
    those who contrive mischief by statute?
²¹ They band together against the life of the righteous,
    and condemn the innocent to death.
²² But the Lord has become my stronghold,
    and my God the rock of my refuge.
²³ He will repay them for their iniquity
    and wipe them out for their wickedness;
    the Lord our God will wipe them out.