Psalms 93-95

Psalm 93

¹Jehovah reigneth, he hath clothed himself with majesty: Jehovah hath clothed himself, he hath girded himself with strength; yea, the world is established, it shall not be moved.

²Thy throne is established of old; thou art from eternity.

³The floods lifted up, O Jehovah, the floods lifted up their voice; the floods lifted up their roaring waves.

⁴Jehovah on high is mightier than the voices of many waters, than the mighty breakers of the sea.

⁵Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thy house, O Jehovah, for ever.

Psalm 94

¹O God of vengeances, Jehovah, God of vengeances, shine forth;

²Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth, render the reward to the proud.

³How long shall the wicked, O Jehovah, how long shall the wicked triumph?

⁴How long shall they utter and speak insolence -- all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?

⁵They crush thy people, O Jehovah, and afflict thine inheritance;

⁶They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless,

⁷And say, Jah will not see, neither will the God of Jacob regard it.

⁸Understand, ye brutish among the people; and ye fools, when will ye be wise?

⁹He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? He that formed the eye, shall he not see?

¹⁰He that instructeth the nations, shall not he correct -- he that teacheth man knowledge?

¹¹Jehovah knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

¹²Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Jah, and whom thou teachest out of thy law;

¹³That thou mayest give him rest from the days of evil, until the pit be digged for the wicked.

¹⁴For Jehovah will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance;

¹⁵For judgment shall return unto righteousness, and all the upright in heart shall follow it.

¹⁶Who will rise up for me against the evil-doers? who will stand for me against the workers of iniquity?

¹⁷If Jehovah had not been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.

¹⁸When I said, My foot slippeth, thy loving-kindness, O Jehovah, held me up.

¹⁹In the multitude of my anxious thoughts within me thy comforts have delighted my soul.

²⁰Shall the throne of wickedness be united to thee, which frameth mischief into a law?

²¹They band together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood.

²²But Jehovah will be my high tower; and my God the rock of my refuge.

²³And he will bring upon them their iniquity, and will cut them off in their own evil: Jehovah our God will cut them off.

Psalm 95

¹Come, let us sing aloud to Jehovah, let us shout for joy to the rock of our salvation;

²Let us come before his face with thanksgiving; let us shout aloud unto him with psalms.

³For Jehovah is a great God, and a great king above all gods.

⁴In his hand are the deep places of the earth; the heights of the mountains are his also:

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

⁶Come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before Jehovah our Maker.

⁷For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. To-day if ye hear his voice,

⁸Harden not your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah, in the wilderness;

⁹When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

¹⁰Forty years was I grieved with the generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways;

¹¹So that I swore in mine anger, that they should not enter into my rest.