94:4 They spew out threats 1 and speak defiantly;
all the evildoers boast. 2
94:5 O Lord, they crush your people;
they oppress the nation that belongs to you. 3
94:6 They kill the widow and the one residing outside his native land,
and they murder the fatherless. 4
94:7 Then they say, “The Lord does not see this;
the God of Jacob does not take notice of it.” 5
94:8 Take notice of this, 6 you ignorant people! 7
You fools, when will you ever understand?
94:9 Does the one who makes the human ear not hear?
Does the one who forms the human eye not see? 8
94:10 Does the one who disciplines the nations not punish?
He is the one who imparts knowledge to human beings!
94:11 The Lord knows that
peoples’ thoughts are morally bankrupt. 9
94:12 How blessed is the one 10 whom you instruct, O Lord,
the one whom you teach from your law,
94:13 in order to protect him from times of trouble, 11
until the wicked are destroyed. 12
94:14 Certainly 13 the Lord does not forsake his people;
he does not abandon the nation that belongs to him. 14
94:15 For justice will prevail, 15
and all the morally upright 16 will be vindicated. 17
94:16 Who will rise up to defend me 18 against the wicked?
Who will stand up for me against the evildoers? 19
94:17 If the Lord had not helped me,
I would have laid down in the silence of death. 20
94:18 If I say, “My foot is slipping,”
your loyal love, O Lord, supports me.
94:19 When worries threaten to overwhelm me, 21
your soothing touch makes me happy. 22
94:20 Cruel rulers 23 are not your allies,
those who make oppressive laws. 24
94:21 They conspire against 25 the blameless, 26
and condemn to death the innocent. 27
94:22 But the Lord will protect me, 28
and my God will shelter me. 29
94:23 He will pay them back for their sin. 30
He will destroy them because of 31 their evil;
the Lord our God will destroy them.