# Psalm 94 
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1. O LORD, God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, shine forth! 
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2. Rise up, O judge of the earth; repay to the proud what they deserve! 
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3. O LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult? 
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4. They pour out their arrogant words; all the evildoers boast. 
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5. They crush your people, O LORD, and afflict your heritage. 
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6. They kill the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless; 
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7. and they say, “The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob does not perceive.” 
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8. Understand, O dullest of the people! Fools, when will you be wise? 
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9. He who planted the ear, does he not hear? He who formed the eye, does he not see? 
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10. He who disciplines the nations, does he not rebuke? He who teaches man knowledge— 
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11. the LORD—knows the thoughts of man, that they are but a breath. 
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12. Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O LORD, and whom you teach out of your law, 
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13. to give him rest from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked. 
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14. For the LORD will not forsake his people; he will not abandon his heritage; 
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15. for justice will return to the righteous, and all the upright in heart will follow it. 
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16. Who rises up for me against the wicked? Who stands up for me against evildoers? 
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17. If the LORD had not been my help, my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence. 
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18. When I thought, “My foot slips,” your steadfast love, O LORD, held me up. 
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19. When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul. 
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20. Can wicked rulers be allied with you, those who frame injustice by statute? 
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21. They band together against the life of the righteous and condemn the innocent to death. 
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22. But the LORD has become my stronghold, and my God the rock of my refuge. 
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23. He will bring back on them their iniquity and wipe them out for their wickedness; the LORD our God will wipe them out. 

(ESV)