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Psalms 94

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1 God, put an end to evil; avenging God, show your colors!
1 O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself.
2 Judge of the earth, take your stand; throw the book at the arrogant.
2 Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.
3 God, the wicked get away with murder - how long will you let this go on?
3 LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?
4 They brag and boast and crow about their crimes!
4 How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
5 They walk all over your people, God, exploit and abuse your precious people.
5 They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.
6 They take out anyone who gets in their way; if they can't use them, they kill them.
6 They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
7 They think, "God isn't looking, Jacob's God is out to lunch."
7 Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.
8 Well, think again, you idiots, fools - how long before you get smart?
8 Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
9 Do you think Ear-Maker doesn't hear, Eye-Shaper doesn't see?
9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
10 Do you think the trainer of nations doesn't correct, the teacher of Adam doesn't know?
10 He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?
11 God knows, all right - knows your stupidity, sees your shallowness.
11 The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
12 How blessed the man you train, God, the woman you instruct in your Word,
12 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;
13 Providing a circle of quiet within the clamor of evil, while a jail is being built for the wicked.
13 That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.
14 God will never walk away from his people, never desert his precious people.
14 For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
15 Rest assured that justice is on its way and every good heart put right.
15 But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.
16 Who stood up for me against the wicked? Who took my side against evil workers?
16 Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
17 If God hadn't been there for me, I never would have made it.
17 Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.
18 The minute I said, "I'm slipping, I'm falling," your love, God, took hold and held me fast.
18 When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.
19 When I was upset and beside myself, you calmed me down and cheered me up.
19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.
20 Can Misrule have anything in common with you? Can Troublemaker pretend to be on your side?
20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?
21 They ganged up on good people, plotted behind the backs of the innocent.
21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
22 But God became my hideout, God was my high mountain retreat,
22 But the LORD is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge.
23 Then boomeranged their evil back on them: for their evil ways he wiped them out, our God cleaned them out for good.
23 And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them off.
Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved.
The King James Version is in the public domain.