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href="../psalms/93.htm" title="Psalm 93">◄</a> Psalm 94 <a href="../psalms/95.htm" title="Psalm 95">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/psalms/94.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> Will Not Forsake His People</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/94-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, God of vengeance,</span><br /><span class="indent">O God of vengeance, shine forth!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/94-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Rise up, O judge of the earth;</span><br /><span class="indent">repay to the proud what they deserve!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/94-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, how long shall the wicked,</span><br /><span class="indent">how long shall the wicked exult?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/94-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">They pour out their arrogant words;</span><br /><span class="indent">all the evildoers boast.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/94-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">They crush your people, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent">and afflict your heritage.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/94-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">They kill the widow and the sojourner,</span><br /><span class="indent">and murder the fatherless;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/94-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">and they say, “The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> does not see;</span><br /><span class="indent">the God of Jacob does not perceive.”</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/94-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Understand, O dullest of the people!</span><br /><span class="indent">Fools, when will you be wise?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/94-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He who planted the ear, does he not hear?</span><br /><span class="ln-group">He who formed the eye, does he not see?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/94-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He who disciplines the nations, does he not rebuke?</span><br /><span class="ln-group">He who teaches man knowledge—</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/94-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="indent">the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>—knows the thoughts of man,</span><br /><span class="indent">that they are but a breath.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Septuagint they are futile">a</a></sup></span></span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/94-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent">and whom you teach out of your law,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/94-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">to give him rest from days of trouble,</span><br /><span class="indent">until a pit is dug for the wicked.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/94-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> will not forsake his people;</span><br /><span class="indent">he will not abandon his heritage;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/94-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">for justice will return to the righteous,</span><br /><span class="indent">and all the upright in heart will follow it.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/94-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Who rises up for me against the wicked?</span><br /><span class="indent">Who stands up for me against evildoers?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/94-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">If the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had not been my help,</span><br /><span class="indent">my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/94-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">When I thought, “My foot slips,”</span><br /><span class="indent">your steadfast love, O <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, held me up.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/94-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">When the cares of my heart are many,</span><br /><span class="indent">your consolations cheer my soul.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/94-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Can wicked rulers be allied with you,</span><br /><span class="indent">those who frame<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or fashion">b</a></sup></span> injustice by statute?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/94-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">They band together against the life of the righteous</span><br /><span class="indent">and condemn the innocent to death.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew condemn innocent blood">c</a></sup></span></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/94-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">But the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has become my stronghold,</span><br /><span class="indent">and my God the rock of my refuge.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/94-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He will bring back on them their iniquity</span><br /><span class="indent">and wipe them out for their wickedness;</span><br /><span class="indent">the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> our God will wipe them out.</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span 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