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Psalm 94 JPS Tanakh (1917)

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  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew
  • Hebrew Bible (Tanakh)
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  • 1917
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JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
1 O LORD, Thou God to whom vengeance belongeth, Thou God to whom vengeance belongeth, shine forth.
1 Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out.
2 Lift up Thyself, Thou Judge of the earth; render to the proud their recompense.
2 Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve.
3 LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult?
3 Yahweh, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph?
4 They gush out, they speak arrogancy; all the workers of iniquity bear themselves loftily.
4 They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.
5 They crush Thy people, O LORD, and afflict Thy heritage.
5 They break your people in pieces, Yahweh, and afflict your heritage.
6 They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
6 They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.
7 And they say: 'The LORD will not see, neither will the God of Jacob give heed.'
7 They say, “Yah will not see, neither will Jacob’s God consider.”
8 Consider, ye brutish among the people; and ye fools, when will ye understand?
8 Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?
9 He that planted the ear, shall He not hear? He that formed the eye, shall He not see?
9 He who implanted the ear, won’t he hear? He who formed the eye, won’t he see?
10 He that instructeth nations, shall not He correct? even He that teacheth man knowledge?
10 He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish? He who teaches man knows.
11 The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
11 Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.
12 Happy is the man whom Thou instructest, O LORD, and teachest out of Thy law;
12 Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law,
13 That Thou mayest give him rest from the days of evil, until the pit be digged for the wicked.
13 that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.
14 For the LORD will not cast off His people, neither will He forsake His inheritance.
14 For Yahweh won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
15 For right shall return unto justice, and all the upright in heart shall follow it.
15 For judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright in heart shall follow it.
16 Who will rise up for me against the evil-doers? Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
16 Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?
17 Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had soon dwelt in silence.
17 Unless Yahweh had been my help, my soul would have soon lived in silence.
18 If I say: 'My foot slippeth', Thy mercy, O LORD, holdeth me up.
18 When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.
19 When my cares are many within me, Thy comforts delight my soul.
19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul.
20 Shall the seat of wickedness have fellowship with Thee, which frameth mischief by statute?
20 Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute?
21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood.
21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
22 But the LORD hath been my high tower, and my God the rock of my refuge.
22 But Yahweh has been my high tower, my God, the rock of my refuge.
23 And He hath brought upon them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own evil; the LORD our God will cut them off.
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. 1 Isaiah 35:4; Nahum 1:2; Hebrews 10:30; Deuteronomy 32:35; Romans 12:19
  2. 2 Psalm 7:6; Psalm 31:23; 2 Corinthians 5:10; John 5:22–23; Genesis 18:25
  3. 3 Revelation 6:10; Jeremiah 12:1–2; Job 20:5; Psalm 43:2; Psalm 80:4
  4. 4 Psalm 31:18; Psalm 52:1; Daniel 7:25; Job 21:14–15; Exodus 15:9–10
  5. 5 Isaiah 3:15; Psalm 79:2–3; Jeremiah 50:11; Psalm 7:2; Revelation 11:3
  6. 6 Isaiah 10:2; Ezekiel 22:7; Jeremiah 7:6; Malachi 3:5; Isaiah 13:15–18
  7. 7 Luke 18:3–4; Psalm 10:11–13; Isaiah 29:15; Ezekiel 8:12; Job 22:12–13
  8. 8 Psalm 92:6; Titus 3:3; Psalm 49:10; Isaiah 27:11; Romans 3:11
  9. 9 Exodus 4:11; Jeremiah 23:23–24; Proverbs 20:12; Psalm 11:4; Psalm 44:21
  10. 10 Job 35:11; Isaiah 28:26; Jeremiah 10:25; John 6:45; Isaiah 2:3
  11. 11 1 Corinthians 3:20; 1 Corinthians 1:19; Romans 1:21–22; Job 11:11–12; 1 Corinthians 1:25
  12. 12 Proverbs 3:11–12; Job 5:17; 1 Corinthians 11:32; Hebrews 12:5–11; Revelation 3:19
  13. 13 Psalm 55:23; 2 Peter 2:9; Psalm 9:15; 2 Thessalonians 1:7–8; Revelation 14:13
  14. 14 1 Samuel 12:22; Romans 11:1–2; Psalm 37:28; Deuteronomy 32:9; John 10:27–31
  15. 15 Micah 7:9; Psalm 37:34; Psalm 97:2; Malachi 3:18; Psalm 125:3–5
  16. 16 Judges 5:23; John 7:50–51; 3 John 8; Jeremiah 5:1; Psalm 59:2
  17. 17 Psalm 124:1–2; Psalm 31:17; 2 Timothy 4:16–17; Psalm 118:13; Psalm 115:17
  18. 18 Psalm 121:3; Isaiah 41:10; Psalm 119:116–117; Psalm 37:23–24; Psalm 38:16
  19. 19 Psalm 61:2; 2 Corinthians 1:4–5; Psalm 77:2–10; Romans 5:2–5; Psalm 63:5–6
  20. 20 Isaiah 10:1; Psalm 58:2; Revelation 13:15–17; Ecclesiastes 3:16; John 11:57
  21. 21 Matthew 27:1; Proverbs 17:15; Exodus 23:7; Psalm 59:3; Revelation 17:6
  22. 22 Psalm 18:2; Psalm 27:1–3; Psalm 59:9; Psalm 62:6; Psalm 59:16–17
  23. 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).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm XCIII)

    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)

  2. Quotes verse 94:1 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book IV, Chapters IV–VII)

    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)

  3. Quotes verse 94:11 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture V)

    … 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)

  4. Quotes verse 94:16 Basil of Caesarea, On the Holy Spirit (Chapter V)

    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)

  5. Quotes verse 94:15 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Preface, Explaining His Design in Undertaking This Work)

    … 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)