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Psalms 94

¹LORD, you are a God who punishes; reveal your anger!

²You are the judge of us all; rise and give the proud what they deserve!

³How much longer will the wicked be glad? How much longer, LORD?

⁴How much longer will criminals be proud and boast about their crimes?

⁵They crush your people, LORD; they oppress those who belong to you.

⁶They kill widows and orphans, and murder the strangers who live in our land.

⁷They say, "The LORD does not see us; the God of Israel does not notice."

⁸My people, how can you be such stupid fools? When will you ever learn?

⁹God made our ears---can't he hear? He made our eyes---can't he see?

¹⁰He scolds the nations---won't he punish them? He is the teacher of us all---hasn't he any knowledge?

¹¹The LORD knows what we think; he knows how senseless our reasoning is.

¹²LORD, how happy are those you instruct, the ones to whom you teach your law!

¹³You give them rest from days of trouble until a pit is dug to trap the wicked.

¹⁴The LORD will not abandon his people; he will not desert those who belong to him.

¹⁵Justice will again be found in the courts, and all righteous people will support it.

¹⁶Who stood up for me against the wicked? Who took my side against the evildoers?

¹⁷If the LORD had not helped me, I would have gone quickly to the land of silence.

¹⁸I said, "I am falling"; but your constant love, O LORD, held me up.

¹⁹Whenever I am anxious and worried, you comfort me and make me glad.

²⁰You have nothing to do with corrupt judges, who make injustice legal,

²¹who plot against good people and sentence the innocent to death.

²²But the LORD defends me; my God protects me.

²³He will punish them for their wickedness and destroy them for their sins; the LORD our God will destroy them.