Psalm 94
1O LORD God of vengeance,
O God of vengeance, show yourself.
2Rise up, O Judge of the world;
give the arrogant their just deserts.
3How long shall the wicked, O LORD,
how long shall the wicked triumph?
4They bluster in their insolence;
all evildoers are full of boasting.
5They crush your people, O LORD,
and afflict your chosen nation.
6They murder the widow and the stranger
and put the orphans to death.
7Yet they say, "The LORD does not see,
the God of Jacob takes no notice."
8Consider well, you dullards among the people;
when will you fools understand?
9He that planted the ear, does he not hear?
he that formed the eye, does he not see?
10He who admonishes the nations, will he not punish?
he who teaches all the world, has he no knowledge?
11The LORD knows our human thoughts;
how like a puff of wind they are.
12Happy are they whom you instruct, O Lord!
whom you teach out of your law;
13To give them rest in evil days,
until a pit is dug for the wicked.
14For the LORD will not abandon his people,
nor will he forsake his own.
15For judgment will again be just,
and all the true of heart will follow it.
16Who rose up for me against the wicked?
who took my part against the evildoers?
17If the LORD had not come to my help,
I should soon have dwelt in the land of silence.
18As often as I said, "My foot has slipped,"
your love, O LORD, upheld me.
19When many cares fill my mind,
your consolations cheer my soul.
20Can a corrupt tribunal have any part with you,
one which frames evil into law?
21They conspire against the life of the just
and condemn the innocent to death.
22But the LORD has become my stronghold,
and my God the rock of my trust.
23He will turn their wickedness back upon them
and destroy them in their own malice;
the LORD our God will destroy them.
Psalm 95 or
Coverdale
Venite, exultemus
1Come, let us sing to the LORD;
let us shout for joy to the Rock of our salvation.
2Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving
and raise a loud shout to him with psalms.
3For the LORD is a great God,
and a great King above all gods.
4In his hand are the caverns of the earth,
and the heights of the hills are his also.
5The sea is his, for he made it,
and his hands have molded the dry land.
6Come, let us bow down, and bend the knee,
and kneel before the LORD our Maker.
7For he is our God,
and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand.
Oh, that today you would hearken to his voice!
8 Harden not your hearts,
as your forebears did in the wilderness,
at Meribah, and on that day at Massah,
when they tempted me.
9They put me to the test,
though they had seen my works.
10Forty years long I detested that generation and said,
"This people are wayward in their hearts;
they do not know my ways."
11So I swore in my wrath,
"They shall not enter into my rest."