94 God of vengeance, Adonai!
God of vengeance, appear!
² Assert yourself as judge of the earth!
Pay back the proud as they deserve!

³ How long are the wicked, Adonai,
how long are the wicked to triumph?
⁴ They pour out insolent words,
they go on bragging, all these evildoers.

⁵ They crush your people, Adonai,
they oppress your heritage.
⁶ They kill widows and strangers
and murder the fatherless.

⁷ They say, “Yah isn’t looking;
the God of Ya‘akov won’t notice.”
⁸ Take notice, yourselves, you boors among the people!
You fools, when will you understand?
⁹ Will the one who planted the ear not hear?
Will the one who formed the eye not see?
¹⁰ Will the one who disciplines nations not correct them?
Will the teacher of humanity not know?
¹¹ Adonai understands that people’s thoughts
are merely a puff of wind.

¹² How happy the man whom you correct, Yah,
whom you teach from your Torah,
¹³ giving him respite from days of trouble,
till a pit is dug for the wicked!
¹⁴ For Adonai will not desert his people,
he will not abandon his heritage.
¹⁵ Justice will once again become righteous,
and all the upright in heart will follow it.

¹⁶ Who will champion my cause against the wicked?
Who will stand up for me against evildoers?

¹⁷ If Adonai hadn’t helped me,
I would soon have dwelt in the land of silence.
¹⁸ When I said, “My foot is slipping!”
your grace, Adonai, supported me.
¹⁹ When my cares within me are many,
your comforts cheer me up.

²⁰ Can unjust judges be allied with you,
those producing wrong in the name of law?
²¹ They band together against the righteous
and condemn the innocent to death.

²² But Adonai has become my stronghold,
my God is my rock of refuge.
²³ But he repays them as their guilt deserves;
he will cut them off with their own evil;
Adonai our God will cut them off.