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Psalm 94 Bible in Basic English
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- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
1 O God, in whose hands is punishment, O God of punishment, let your shining face be seen.
1 Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out.
2 Be lifted up, O judge of the earth; let their reward come to the men of pride.
2 Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve.
3 How long will sinners, O Lord, how long will sinners have joy over us?
3 Yahweh, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph?
4 Words of pride come from their lips; all the workers of evil say great things of themselves.
4 They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.
5 Your people are crushed by them, O Lord, your heritage is troubled,
5 They break your people in pieces, Yahweh, and afflict your heritage.
6 They put to death the widow and the guest, they take the lives of children who have no father;
6 They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.
7 And they say, Jah will not see it, the God of Jacob will not give thought to it.
7 They say, “Yah will not see, neither will Jacob’s God consider.”
8 Give your mind to my words, you who are without wisdom among the people; you foolish men, when will you be wise?
8 Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?
9 Has he by whom your ears were planted no hearing? or is he blind by whom your eyes were formed?
9 He who implanted the ear, won’t he hear? He who formed the eye, won’t he see?
10 He who is the judge of the nations, will he not give men the reward of their acts, even he who gives knowledge to man?
10 He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish? He who teaches man knows.
11 The Lord has knowledge of the thoughts of man, for they are only a breath.
11 Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.
12 Happy is the man who is guided by you, O Jah, and to whom you give teaching out of your law;
12 Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law,
13 So that you may give him rest from the days of evil, till a hole is made ready for the destruction of the sinners.
13 that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.
14 The Lord will not give up his people, or take away his support from his heritage;
14 For Yahweh won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
15 But decisions will again be made in righteousness; and they will be kept by all whose hearts are true.
15 For judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright in heart shall follow it.
16 Who will give me help against the sinners? and who will be my support against the workers of evil?
16 Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?
17 If the Lord had not been my helper, my soul would quickly have gone down into death.
17 Unless Yahweh had been my help, my soul would have soon lived in silence.
18 If I say, My foot is slipping; your mercy, O Lord, is my support.
18 When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.
19 Among all my troubled thoughts, your comforts are the delight of my soul.
19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul.
20 What part with you has the seat of sin, which makes evil into a law?
20 Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute?
21 They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.
21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
22 But the Lord is my safe resting-place; my God is the Rock where I am safe.
22 But Yahweh has been my high tower, my God, the rock of my refuge.
23 And he has made their evil designs come back on themselves, cutting them off in their sin; the Lord our God will put an end to them.
23 He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.
Cross references (23)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Isaiah 35:4; Nahum 1:2; Hebrews 10:30; Deuteronomy 32:35; Romans 12:19
- 2 Psalm 7:6; Psalm 31:23; 2 Corinthians 5:10; John 5:22–23; Genesis 18:25
- 3 Revelation 6:10; Jeremiah 12:1–2; Job 20:5; Psalm 43:2; Psalm 80:4
- 4 Psalm 31:18; Psalm 52:1; Daniel 7:25; Job 21:14–15; Exodus 15:9–10
- 5 Isaiah 3:15; Psalm 79:2–3; Jeremiah 50:11; Psalm 7:2; Revelation 11:3
- 6 Isaiah 10:2; Ezekiel 22:7; Jeremiah 7:6; Malachi 3:5; Isaiah 13:15–18
- 7 Luke 18:3–4; Psalm 10:11–13; Isaiah 29:15; Ezekiel 8:12; Job 22:12–13
- 8 Psalm 92:6; Titus 3:3; Psalm 49:10; Isaiah 27:11; Romans 3:11
- 9 Exodus 4:11; Jeremiah 23:23–24; Proverbs 20:12; Psalm 11:4; Psalm 44:21
- 10 Job 35:11; Isaiah 28:26; Jeremiah 10:25; John 6:45; Isaiah 2:3
- 11 1 Corinthians 3:20; 1 Corinthians 1:19; Romans 1:21–22; Job 11:11–12; 1 Corinthians 1:25
- 12 Proverbs 3:11–12; Job 5:17; 1 Corinthians 11:32; Hebrews 12:5–11; Revelation 3:19
- 13 Psalm 55:23; 2 Peter 2:9; Psalm 9:15; 2 Thessalonians 1:7–8; Revelation 14:13
- 14 1 Samuel 12:22; Romans 11:1–2; Psalm 37:28; Deuteronomy 32:9; John 10:27–31
- 15 Micah 7:9; Psalm 37:34; Psalm 97:2; Malachi 3:18; Psalm 125:3–5
- 16 Judges 5:23; John 7:50–51; 3 John 8; Jeremiah 5:1; Psalm 59:2
- 17 Psalm 124:1–2; Psalm 31:17; 2 Timothy 4:16–17; Psalm 118:13; Psalm 115:17
- 18 Psalm 121:3; Isaiah 41:10; Psalm 119:116–117; Psalm 37:23–24; Psalm 38:16
- 19 Psalm 61:2; 2 Corinthians 1:4–5; Psalm 77:2–10; Romans 5:2–5; Psalm 63:5–6
- 20 Isaiah 10:1; Psalm 58:2; Revelation 13:15–17; Ecclesiastes 3:16; John 11:57
- 21 Matthew 27:1; Proverbs 17:15; Exodus 23:7; Psalm 59:3; Revelation 17:6
- 22 Psalm 18:2; Psalm 27:1–3; Psalm 59:9; Psalm 62:6; Psalm 59:16–17
- 23 Psalm 7:16; Proverbs 14:32; Proverbs 2:22; Proverbs 5:22; Psalm 55:23
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
It is entitled, "The Song of praise of David himself, on the day before the Sabbath, when the earth was founded." Remembering then what God did through all those days, when He made and ordained all things, from the first up to the sixth day (for the seventh He sanctified, because He rested on that day after all the works, …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
But behold, Thou wert close behind Thy fugitives--at once God of vengeance and Fountain of mercies, who turnest us to Thyself by wondrous means.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
… hard to find: not that thou shouldest shew thy conscience to me, for thou art not to be judged of man's judgment; but that thou shew the sincerity of thy faith to God, who trieth the reins and hearts, and knoweth the thoughts of men.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being his counsellor hath taught him?" Now the word "who" in this passage does not mean absolute impossibility, but rarity, as in the passage "Who will rise up for me against the evil doers?" and "What man is he that desireth life?" and "Who shall ascend into the hill of the …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)
… faith in this fleeting course of time, and sojourns as a stranger in the midst of the ungodly, or as it shall dwell in the fixed stability of its eternal seat, which it now with patience waits for, expecting until "righteousness shall return unto judgment," and it obtain, by virtue of its excellence, final victory and perfect peace.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)