Psalms 93-95

Psalm 93

¹The Lord is King; he is clothed with glory; the Lord is clothed with strength; power is the cord of his robe; the world is fixed, so that it may not be moved.

²The seat of your power has been from the past; you are eternal.

³The rivers send up, O Lord, the rivers send up their voices; they send them up with a loud cry.

⁴The Lord in heaven is stronger than the noise of great waters, yes, he is stronger than the great waves of the sea.

⁵Your witness is most certain; it is right for your house to be holy, O Lord, for ever.

Psalm 94

¹O God, in whose hands is punishment, O God of punishment, let your shining face be seen.

²Be lifted up, O judge of the earth; let their reward come to the men of pride.

³How long will sinners, O Lord, how long will sinners have joy over us?

⁴Words of pride come from their lips; all the workers of evil say great things of themselves.

⁵Your people are crushed by them, O Lord, your heritage is troubled,

⁶They put to death the widow and the guest, they take the lives of children who have no father;

⁷And they say, Jah will not see it, the God of Jacob will not give thought to it.

⁸Give your mind to my words, you who are without wisdom among the people; you foolish men, when will you be wise?

⁹Has he by whom your ears were planted no hearing? or is he blind by whom your eyes were formed?

¹⁰He who is the judge of the nations, will he not give men the reward of their acts, even he who gives knowledge to man?

¹¹The Lord has knowledge of the thoughts of man, for they are only a breath.

¹²Happy is the man who is guided by you, O Jah, and to whom you give teaching out of your law;

¹³So that you may give him rest from the days of evil, till a hole is made ready for the destruction of the sinners.

¹⁴The Lord will not give up his people, or take away his support from his heritage;

¹⁵But decisions will again be made in righteousness; and they will be kept by all whose hearts are true.

¹⁶Who will give me help against the sinners? and who will be my support against the workers of evil?

¹⁷If the Lord had not been my helper, my soul would quickly have gone down into death.

¹⁸If I say, My foot is slipping; your mercy, O Lord, is my support.

¹⁹Among all my troubled thoughts, your comforts are the delight of my soul.

²⁰What part with you has the seat of sin, which makes evil into a law?

²¹They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.

²²But the Lord is my safe resting-place; my God is the Rock where I am safe.

²³And 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.

Psalm 95

¹O come, let us make songs to the Lord; sending up glad voices to the Rock of our salvation.

²Let us come before his face with praises; and make melody with holy songs.

³For the Lord is a great God, and a great King over all gods.

⁴The deep places of the earth are in his hand; and the tops of the mountains are his.

⁵The sea is his, and he made it; and the dry land was formed by his hands.

⁶O come, let us give worship, falling down on our knees before the Lord our Maker.

⁷For he is our God; and we are the people to whom he gives food, and the sheep of his flock. Today, if you would only give ear to his voice!

⁸Let not your hearts be hard, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the waste land;

⁹When your fathers put me to the test and saw my power and my work.

¹⁰For forty years I was angry with this generation, and said, They are a people whose hearts are turned away from me, for they have no knowledge of my ways;

¹¹And I made an oath in my wrath, that they might not come into my place of rest.