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The Lord Will Not Forsake His People

 O Lord, God of vengeance,
O God of vengeance, shine forth!
² Rise up, O judge of the earth;
repay to the proud what they deserve!
³ O Lord, how long shall the wicked,
how long shall the wicked exult?
⁴ They pour out their arrogant words;
all the evildoers boast.
⁵ They crush your people, O Lord,
and afflict your heritage.
⁶ They kill the widow and the sojourner,
and murder the fatherless;
⁷ and they say, “The Lord does not see;
the God of Jacob does not perceive.”

⁸ Understand, O dullest of the people!
Fools, when will you be wise?
⁹ He who planted the ear, does he not hear?
He who formed the eye, does he not see?
¹⁰ He who disciplines the nations, does he not rebuke?
He who teaches man knowledge—
¹¹     the Lord—knows the thoughts of man,
that they are but a breath.^[a]

¹² Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord,
   and whom you teach out of your law,
¹³ to give him rest from days of trouble,
   until a pit is dug for the wicked.
¹⁴ For the Lord will not forsake his people;
   he will not abandon his heritage;
¹⁵ for justice will return to the righteous,
   and all the upright in heart will follow it.

¹⁶ Who rises up for me against the wicked?
Who stands up for me against evildoers?
¹⁷ If the Lord had not been my help,
my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence.
¹⁸ When I thought, “My foot slips,”
your steadfast love, O Lord, held me up.
¹⁹ When the cares of my heart are many,
your consolations cheer my soul.
²⁰ Can wicked rulers be allied with you,
those who frame injustice by statute?
²¹ They band together against the life of the righteous
and condemn the innocent to death.^[b]
22 But the Lord has become my stronghold,
and my God the rock of my refuge.
²³ He will bring back on them their iniquity
and wipe them out for their wickedness;
the Lord our God will wipe them out.

Footnotes:

1. Psalm 94:11 Septuagint they are futile
2. Psalm 94:21 Hebrew condemn innocent blood

Cross references:

1. Psalm 94:1 : Deut. 32:35, 41, 43; Isa. 35:4; Jer. 51:56; Nah. 1:2; Rom. 12:19
2. Psalm 94:1 : See Ps. 50:2
3. Psalm 94:2 : See Ps. 7:6
4. Psalm 94:2 : See Ps. 58:11
5. Psalm 94:2 : Luke 1:51
6. Psalm 94:3 : Rev. 6:10; See Ps. 74:10
7. Psalm 94:3 : [Job 20:5]
8. Psalm 94:4 : Ps. 31:18; 1 Sam. 2:3; [Jude 15]
9. Psalm 94:4 : Ps. 92:7, 9; 125:5
10. Psalm 94:5 : [Prov. 22:22; Isa. 3:15]
11. Psalm 94:6 : [Isa. 10:2]
12. Psalm 94:6 : [Isa. 10:2]
13. Psalm 94:7 : See Job 22:13
14. Psalm 94:8 : See Ps. 49:10
15. Psalm 94:9 : [Ex. 4:11; Prov. 20:12]
16. Psalm 94:10 : [Job 12:23]
17. Psalm 94:10 : See Job 35:11
18. Psalm 94:11 : Cited 1 Cor. 3:20
19. Psalm 94:11 : [Ps. 30:5, 11]
20. Psalm 94:12 : Prov. 3:11, 12; Heb. 12:5, 6; See Job 5:17
21. Psalm 94:12 : Deut. 8:5; 1 Cor. 11:32
22. Psalm 94:13 : Job 34:29
23. Psalm 94:13 : Ps. 49:5
24. Psalm 94:13 : Ps. 55:23
25. Psalm 94:14 : 1 Sam. 12:22; Rom. 11:2
26. Psalm 94:14 : Deut. 32:9
27. Psalm 94:14 : Deut. 32:9
28. Psalm 94:15 : [Isa. 42:3]
29. Psalm 94:15 : 1 Sam. 12:14; 1 Kgs. 14:8
30. Psalm 94:16 : See Ps. 12:5
31. Psalm 94:17 : Ps. 124:1, 2
32. Psalm 94:17 : See Ps. 31:17
33. Psalm 94:18 : Ps. 38:16; [Ps. 73:2]
34. Psalm 94:18 : [Ps. 20:2]
35. Psalm 94:20 : [Amos 6:3]
36. Psalm 94:20 : Ps. 50:16; 58:2; Isa. 10:1
37. Psalm 94:21 : Matt. 27:1
38. Psalm 94:21 : Matt. 27:4
39. Psalm 94:22 : See Ps. 9:9
40. Psalm 94:22 : See Ps. 18:2
41. Psalm 94:22 : See Ps. 14:6
42. Psalm 94:23 : See Ps. 7:16; 34:21; [Prov. 2:22]
43. Psalm 94:23 : [Ps. 92:9]