Psalm 94

Tree of Life Version

⁸ Pay attention, stupid among the people!
Fools, when will you comprehend?
⁹ He who planted the ear, does He not hear?
He who formed the eye, does He not see?
¹⁰ He who chastens nations, will He not rebuke—
One who teaches humanity knowledge?
¹¹ Adonai knows human thoughts—
    they are but a breath.

¹² Blessed is the one You discipline, Adonai,
and teach him from Your Torah,
¹³ to give him rest from days of trouble
—until a pit is dug for the wicked.
¹⁴ For Adonai will not forsake His people.
He will never abandon His inheritance.^[a]
15 For rightness will be restored to justice,
and all the upright in heart will follow it.

¹⁶ Who will rise up for me against the wicked?
Who will stand up for me against evildoers?
¹⁷ Unless Adonai had been my help,
my soul would soon have dwelt in the abode of silence.
¹⁸ If I say: “My foot has slipped,”
Your mercy, Adonai, will hold me up.
¹⁹ When my troubling thoughts multiply within me,
Your consolations comfort my soul.
²⁰ Can a throne of corruption be aligned
with You—planning distress by decree?
²¹ They band together against the life of the righteous,
and condemn innocent blood.^[b]
22 But Adonai has been my fortress
and my God the rock of my refuge.
²³ He will repay them for their wickedness,
and will annihilate them in their evil.
Adonai our God will annihilate them.