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Chapter 94
Psal NETtext 94:1  O LORD, the God who avenges! O God who avenges, reveal your splendor!
Psal NETtext 94:2  Rise up, O judge of the earth! Pay back the proud!
Psal NETtext 94:3  O LORD, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked celebrate?
Psal NETtext 94:4  They spew out threats and speak defiantly; all the evildoers boast.
Psal NETtext 94:5  O LORD, they crush your people; they oppress the nation that belongs to you.
Psal NETtext 94:6  They kill the widow and the one residing outside his native land, and they murder the fatherless.
Psal NETtext 94:7  Then they say, "The LORD does not see this; the God of Jacob does not take notice of it."
Psal NETtext 94:8  Take notice of this, you ignorant people! You fools, when will you ever understand?
Psal NETtext 94:9  Does the one who makes the human ear not hear? Does the one who forms the human eye not see?
Psal NETtext 94:10  Does the one who disciplines the nations not punish? He is the one who imparts knowledge to human beings!
Psal NETtext 94:11  The LORD knows that peoples' thoughts are morally bankrupt.
Psal NETtext 94:12  How blessed is the one whom you instruct, O LORD, the one whom you teach from your law,
Psal NETtext 94:13  in order to protect him from times of trouble, until the wicked are destroyed.
Psal NETtext 94:14  Certainly the LORD does not forsake his people; he does not abandon the nation that belongs to him.
Psal NETtext 94:15  For justice will prevail, and all the morally upright will be vindicated.
Psal NETtext 94:16  Who will rise up to defend me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?
Psal NETtext 94:17  If the LORD had not helped me, I would have laid down in the silence of death.
Psal NETtext 94:18  If I say, "My foot is slipping," your loyal love, O LORD, supports me.
Psal NETtext 94:19  When worries threaten to overwhelm me, your soothing touch makes me happy.
Psal NETtext 94:20  Cruel rulers are not your allies, those who make oppressive laws.
Psal NETtext 94:21  They conspire against the blameless, and condemn to death the innocent.
Psal NETtext 94:22  But the LORD will protect me, and my God will shelter me.
Psal NETtext 94:23  He will pay them back for their sin. He will destroy them because of their evil; the LORD our God will destroy them.