| Chapter 94 |
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God of vengeance -- Jehovah! God of vengeance, shine forth.
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Be lifted up, O Judge of the earth, Send back a recompence on the proud.
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Till when [do] the wicked, O Jehovah? Till when do the wicked exult?
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They utter -- they speak an old saw, All working iniquity do boast themselves.
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Thy people, O Jehovah, they bruise, And Thine inheritance they afflict.
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Widow and sojourner they slay, And fatherless ones they murder.
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And they say, 'Jehovah doth not see, And the God of Jacob doth not consider.'
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Consider, ye brutish among the people, And ye foolish, when do ye act wisely?
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He who planteth the ear doth He not hear? He who formeth the eye doth He not see?
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He who is instructing nations, Doth He not reprove? He who is teaching man knowledge [is] Jehovah.
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He knoweth the thoughts of man, that they [are] vanity.
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O the happiness of the man Whom Thou instructest, O Jah, And out of Thy law teachest him,
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To give rest to him from days of evil, While a pit is digged for the wicked.
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For Jehovah leaveth not His people, And His inheritance forsaketh not.
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For to righteousness judgment turneth back, And after it all the upright of heart,
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Who riseth up for me with evil doers? Who stationeth himself for me with workers of iniquity?
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Unless Jehovah [were] a help to me, My soul had almost inhabited silence.
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If I have said, 'My foot hath slipped,' Thy kindness, O Jehovah, supporteth me.
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In the abundance of my thoughts within me, Thy comforts delight my soul.
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Is a throne of mischief joined [with] Thee? A framer of perverseness by statute?
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They decree against the soul of the righteous, And innocent blood declare wicked.
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And Jehovah is for a high place to me, And my God [is] for a rock -- my refuge,
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And turneth back on them their iniquity, And in their wickedness cutteth them off; Jehovah our God doth cut them off!
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