📖 Psalms 94
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O LORD, the God who avenges! O God who avenges, reveal your splendor!
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Rise up, O judge of the earth! Pay back the proud!
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O LORD, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked celebrate?
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They spew out threats and speak defiantly; all the evildoers boast.
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O LORD, they crush your people; they oppress the nation that belongs to you.
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They kill the widow and the resident foreigner, and they murder the fatherless.
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Then they say,“The LORD does not see this; the God of Jacob does not take notice of it.”
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Take notice of this, you ignorant people! You fools, when will you ever understand?
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Does the one who makes the human ear not hear? Does the one who forms the human eye not see?
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Does the one who disciplines the nations not punish? He is the one who imparts knowledge to human beings!
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The LORD knows that peoples’ thoughts are morally bankrupt.
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How blessed is the one whom you instruct, O LORD, the one whom you teach from your law,
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in order to protect him from times of trouble, until the wicked are destroyed.
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Certainly the LORD does not forsake his people; he does not abandon the nation that belongs to him.
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For justice will prevail, and all the morally upright will be vindicated.
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Who will rise up to defend me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?
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If the LORD had not helped me, I would soon have dwelt in the silence of death.
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If I say,“My foot is slipping,” your loyal love, O LORD, supports me.
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When worries threaten to overwhelm me, your soothing touch makes me happy.
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Cruel rulers are not your allies, those who make oppressive laws.
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They conspire against the blameless, and condemn to death the innocent.
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But the LORD will protect me, and my God will shelter me.
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He will pay them back for their sin. He will destroy them because of their evil; the LORD our God will destroy them.