Psalm 94

O LORD God of vengeance,

O God of vengeance, show yourself.

Rise up, O Judge of the world;

give the arrogant their just deserts.

How long shall the wicked, O LORD ,

how long shall the wicked triumph?

They bluster in their insolence;

all evildoers are full of boasting.

They crush your people, O LORD ,

and afflict your chosen nation.

They murder the widow and the stranger

and put the orphans to death.

Yet they say, "The LORD does not see,

the God of Jacob takes no notice."

Consider well, you dullards among the people;

when will you fools understand?

He that planted the ear, does he not hear?

he that formed the eye, does he not see?

He who admonishes the nations, will he not punish?

he who teaches all the world, has he no knowledge?

The LORD knows our human thoughts;

how like a puff of wind they are.

Happy are they whom you instruct, O Lord!

whom you teach out of your law;

To give them rest in evil days,

until a pit is dug for the wicked.

For the LORD will not abandon his people,

nor will he forsake his own.

For judgment will again be just,

and all the true of heart will follow it.

Who rose up for me against the wicked?

who took my part against the evildoers?

If the LORD had not come to my help,

I should soon have dwelt in the land of silence.

As often as I said, "My foot has slipped,"

your love, O LORD , upheld me.

When many cares fill my mind,

your consolations cheer my soul.

Can a corrupt tribunal have any part with you,

one which frames evil into law?

They conspire against the life of the just

and condemn the innocent to death.

But the LORD has become my stronghold,

and my God the rock of my trust.

He will turn their wickedness back upon them and destroy them in their own malice;

the LORD our God will destroy them.