Book of Psalms, No. 94
Psalms 94 NWT - New World TranslationNo. 94 of the Psalms—New World Translation (NWT)
- ¶ [a] O God[b] of acts of vengeance, Jehovah,1
O God of acts of vengeance, beam forth!2 - ¶ Raise yourself up, O Judge of the earth.3
Bring back a retribution upon the haughty ones.4 - ¶ How long are the wicked, O Jehovah,5
How long are the wicked themselves going to exult?6 - ¶ They keep bubbling forth, they keep speaking unrestrained;7
All the practicers of what is hurtful keep bragging about themselves.8 - ¶ Your people, O Jehovah, they keep crushing,9
And your inheritance they keep afflicting.10 - ¶ The widow and the alien resident they kill,11
And the fatherless boys they murder.12 - ¶ And they keep saying: “Jah[c] does not see;13
And the God[d] of Jacob does not understand [it].”14 - ¶ Understand, YOU who are unreasoning among the people;15
And as for YOU stupid ones, when will YOU have any insight?16 - ¶ The One planting the ear, can he not hear?17
Or the One forming the eye, can he not look?18 - ¶ The One correcting the nations, can he not reprove,19
Even the One teaching men knowledge?20 - ¶ Jehovah is knowing the thoughts of men,[e] that they are as an exhalation.21
- ¶ Happy is the able-bodied man[f] whom you correct,22 O Jah,
And whom you teach out of your own law,23 - ¶ To give him quietness from days of calamity,24
Until for the wicked one a pit is excavated.25 - ¶ For Jehovah will not forsake his people,26
Nor will he leave his own inheritance.27 - ¶ For judicial decision will return even to righteousness,28
And all the upright in heart will follow it. - ¶ Who will rise up for me against the evildoers?29
Who will take his stand for me against the practicers of hurtfulness?30 - ¶ Unless Jehovah had been of assistance to me,31
In a little while my soul would have resided in silence.32 - ¶ When I said: “My foot will certainly move unsteadily,”33
Your own loving-kindness, O Jehovah, kept sustaining me.34 - ¶ When my disquieting thoughts became many inside of me,35
Your own consolations began to fondle my soul.36 - ¶ Will the throne causing adversities be allied with you37
While it is framing trouble by decree?38 - ¶ They make sharp attacks on the soul of the righteous one39
And pronounce wicked even the blood of the innocent one.40 - ¶ But Jehovah will become a secure height for me,41
And my God the rock of my refuge.42 - ¶ And he will turn back upon them their hurtfulness43
And will silence them with their own calamity.44
Jehovah our God will silence them.45
FOOTNOTES
- ^ LXX has the superscription: “A psalm of David, for the fourth day of the week”; Vg is similar.
- ^ “God of.” Heb., ʼEl.
- ^ “Jah.” Heb., Yah. See 68:4 ftn.
- ^ “God of.” Heb., ʼElo·hehʹ.
- ^ Lit., “earthling man.” Heb., ʼa·dhamʹ.
- ^ “The able-bodied man.” Heb., hag·geʹver.
REFERENCES
- ^ De 32:35; Is 35:4; Je 50:28; Na 1:2; Ro 12:19; 1Th 4:6; 2Th 1:6; Heb 10:30
- ^ Ps 80:1
- ^ Ge 18:25; Ps 7:6; 50:6; Ac 17:31; Ro 14:4
- ^ Jb 40:11; Ps 31:23; 1Pe 5:5
- ^ Ps 74:10
- ^ Ps 73:3
- ^ Ps 59:7
- ^ Ps 31:18; 73:9; 144:15
- ^ Ps 14:4
- ^ Je 10:21; 50:11
- ^ Is 1:23; 10:2
- ^ Je 7:6
- ^ Ps 10:11; 59:7; Eze 8:12
- ^ Ps 73:11; Is 29:15
- ^ Ps 49:10; 73:22; 92:6; Pr 12:1
- ^ Pr 1:22
- ^ Ge 21:17; Ex 4:11; Ps 55:19; 69:33
- ^ Ps 34:15; Pr 20:12
- ^ Ps 9:5; Is 10:12
- ^ Jb 35:11; Ps 25:8; Is 28:26; Jn 6:45
- ^ 1Co 1:19; 3:20
- ^ Ps 119:71; Pr 3:11; 1Co 11:32; Heb 12:6
- ^ Ps 19:8; Pr 2:6; Is 54:13
- ^ Is 26:20; Hab 3:16
- ^ Ps 55:23; 2Pe 2:9
- ^ 1Sa 12:22; Ps 37:28; Ro 11:1; Heb 13:5
- ^ De 32:9
- ^ Ps 19:9
- ^ 2Ki 10:15
- ^ Ne 5:7; Jn 7:51
- ^ Ps 118:13; 124:2; 2Co 1:10
- ^ Ps 13:3; Ec 9:5
- ^ Ps 38:16; 121:3
- ^ 1Sa 2:9; Ps 37:24; 117:2; La 3:22
- ^ Je 20:12; Pp 4:6
- ^ Ps 71:21; 86:17
- ^ Ec 5:8
- ^ 1Ki 21:10; Ps 58:2; Is 10:1; Da 3:5; 6:7; Ac 5:28
- ^ Ps 59:3
- ^ Ex 23:7; 1Ki 21:19; Pr 17:15; Ac 7:58
- ^ Ps 59:9
- ^ Ps 18:2; 62:7
- ^ Es 7:10; Ps 7:16; Pr 2:22; 5:22; 2Th 1:6
- ^ 1Sa 26:10; Ps 7:15; Pr 26:27
- ^ Ps 12:3
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