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Chapter 93
Psal CPDV 93:1  A Psalm of David himself. The Fourth Sabbath. The Lord is the God of retribution. The God of retribution acts in order to deliver.
Psal CPDV 93:2  Lift yourself up, for you judge the earth. Repay the arrogant with retribution.
Psal CPDV 93:3  How long will sinners, O Lord, how long will sinners glory?
Psal CPDV 93:4  How long will they utter and speak iniquity? How long will all who work injustice speak out?
Psal CPDV 93:5  They have humiliated your people, O Lord, and they have harassed your inheritance.
Psal CPDV 93:6  They have executed the widow and the new arrival, and they have slaughtered the orphan.
Psal CPDV 93:7  And they have said, “The Lord will not see, nor will the God of Jacob understand.”
Psal CPDV 93:8  Understand, you senseless ones among the people. And be wise at last, you foolish ones.
Psal CPDV 93:9  He who formed the ear, will he not hear? And he who forged the eye, does he not look closely?
Psal CPDV 93:10  He who chastises nations, he who teaches man knowledge, will he not rebuke?
Psal CPDV 93:11  The Lord knows the thoughts of men: that these are in vain.
Psal CPDV 93:12  Blessed is the man whom you will instruct, O Lord. And you will teach him from your law.
Psal CPDV 93:13  So may you soothe him from the evil days, until a pit may be dug for sinners.
Psal CPDV 93:14  For the Lord will not drive away his people, and he will not abandon his inheritance,
Psal CPDV 93:15  even until the time when justice is being converted into judgment, and when those who are close to justice are all those who are upright of heart.
Psal CPDV 93:16  Who will rise up with me against the malignant? Or who will stand with me against the workers of iniquity?
Psal CPDV 93:17  Except that the Lord assisted me, my soul almost would have dwelt in Hell.
Psal CPDV 93:18  If ever I said, “My foot is slipping,” then your mercy, O Lord, assisted me.
Psal CPDV 93:19  According to the multitude of my sorrows in my heart, your consolations have given joy to my soul.
Psal CPDV 93:20  Does the seat of iniquity adhere to you, you who contrive hardship within a commandment?
Psal CPDV 93:21  They will hunt down the soul of the just, and they will condemn innocent blood.
Psal CPDV 93:22  And the Lord has been made into a refuge for me, and my God into the assistance of my hope.
Psal CPDV 93:23  And he will repay them their iniquity, and he will destroy them in their malice. The Lord our God will utterly destroy them.