PSALMS - Chapter 94
O YAHWEH Elohim, to whom vengeance belongs—O Elohim, to whom vengeance belongs, shine forth! Rise up, O Judge of the earth; render punishment to the proud.
YAHWEH, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph? They utter speech, and speak insolent things; all the workers of iniquity boast in themselves. They break in pieces your people, O YAHWEH, and afflict your heritage. They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
Yet they say, "YAHWEH does not see, nor does the Elohim of Jacob understand."
Understand, you senseless among the people; and you fools, when will you be wise?
He who planted the ear, shall He not hear? He who formed the eye, shall He not see? He who instructs the nations, shall He not correct, He who teaches man knowledge? YAHWEH knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.
Blessed is the man whom you instruct, O YAHWEH, and teach out of your law, that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked. For YAHWEH will not cast off His people, nor will He forsake His inheritance. But judgment will return to righteousness, and all the upright in heart will follow it.
Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity? Unless YAHWEH had been my help, my soul would soon have settled in silence. If I say, "my foot slips," your mercy, O YAHWEH, will hold me up. In the multitude of my anxieties within me, your comforts delight my soul.
Shall the throne of iniquity, which devises evil by law, have fellowship with you? They gather together against the life of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood. But YAHWEH has been my defense, and my Elohim the rock of my refuge. He has brought on them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; YAHWEH our Elohim shall cut them off.
Chapter 95
Oh come, let us sing to YAHWEH! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms. For YAHWEH is the great Elohim, and the great King above all gods.
In His hand are the deep places of the earth; the heights of the hills are His also. The sea is His, for He made it; and His hands formed the dry land.
Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before YAHWEH our maker. For He is our Elohim, and we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand.
Today, if you will hear His voice: "Do not harden your hearts, as in the rebellion, as in the day of trial in the wilderness, when your fathers tested me; they tried me, though they saw my work. For forty years I was grieved with that generation, and said, 'It is a people who go astray in their hearts, and they do not know my ways.' So I swore in my wrath, 'They shall not enter my rest.'"
HalleluYah!