Psalm 94

O Lord God to whom vengeance belongs, O God to whom vengeance belongs, show yourself.

Arise, O Judge of the world, and reward the proud according to their deserving.

O Lord, how long shall the ungodly, how long shall the ungodly triumph?

How long shall all evildoers speak so disdainfully and make such proud boasting?

They smite down your people, O Lord, and trouble your heritage.

They murder the widow and the stranger, and put the fatherless to death.

And yet they say, “The Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.”

Take heed, you unwise among the people; O you fools, when will you understand?

He who planted the ear, shall he not hear? Or he who made the eye, shall he not see?

Or he who nurtures the nations, he who teaches humanity knowledge, shall he not punish?

The Lord knows the thoughts of man, that they are but vain.

Blessed is the one whom you chasten, O Lord, and whom you teach your law,

That you may give him patience in time of adversity, until a pit is dug for the ungodly.

For the Lord will not fail his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance,

But righteousness shall return to the place of judgment, and all those who are true of heart shall follow it.

Who will rise up with me against the wicked, or who will take my part against the evildoers?

If the Lord had not helped me, my soul would soon have dwelt in the land of silence.

But when I said, “My foot has slipped,” your mercy, O Lord, held me up.

In the multitude of the sorrows that I had in my heart, your comforts refreshed my soul.

Will you have anything to do with the council of wickedness, which turns evil into law?

They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.

But the Lord is my refuge, and my God is the rock of my confidence.

He shall recompense them for their wickedness, and destroy them in their own malice; indeed, the Lord our God shall destroy them.