Psalm 94 in the New World Translation delves into the theme of divine justice and serves as a poignant expression of the psalmist’s plea for assistance against the actions of the wicked.
The psalmist contemplates the seeming impunity of evildoers while seeking solace in the belief that God (cited here as “Father-Mother God”), as the ultimate arbiter of justice, will rectify all wrongs.
This psalm resonates with the assurance that despite the apparent triumph of the wicked, God intimately observes and comprehends their deeds, offering comfort to those who put their trust in His unwavering justice.
O God of acts of vengeance, [Father-Mother God], O God of acts of vengeance, beam forth!
Raise yourself up O Judge of the earth. Bring back a retribution upon the haughty ones.
How long are the wicked, O [Father-Mother God], How long are the wicked themselves going to exult?
They keep bubbling forth, they keep speaking unrestrained; All the practicers of what is hurtful keep bragging about themselves.
Your people, O [Father-Mother God], they keep crushing, And your inheritance they keep afflicting.
The widow and the alien resident they [unalive], And the fatherless boys they [make lifeless].
And they keep saying : “Jah does not see; And the God of Jacob does not understand [it].”
Understand, YOU who are unreasoning among the people; And as for you stupid ones, when will you have any insight?
The One planting the ear, can he not hear?
Or the One forming the eye, can he not look?
The One correcting the nations, can he not reprove, even the One teaching men knowledge?
[Father-Mother God] is knowing the thoughts of men, that they are as an exhalation.
Happy is the able-bodied man, whom you correct, O Jah, And whom you teach out of your own law,
To give him quietness for days calamity, Until for the wicked one a pit is excavated.
For [Father-Mother God] will not forsake his people, Nor will he leave his own inheritance.
For judicial decision will return even to righteousness, And all the upright in heart will follow it.
Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? Who will take his stand for me against the practicers of hurtfulness?
Unless [Father-Mother God] had been of assistance to me, In a little while my soul would have resided in silence.
When I said, “My foot will certainly move unsteadily,” Your own loving-kindness , O [Father-Mother God], kept sustaining me.
When my disquieting thoughts became many inside of me, Your own consolations began to fondle my soul.
Will the throne causing adversities be allied with you While it is framing trouble by decree?
They make sharp attacks on the soul of the righteous one And pronounce wicked even the blood of the innocent one.
But [Father-Mother God] will become a secure height for me, And my God the rock of my refuge.
And he will turn back upon them their hurtfulness And will silence them with their own calamity. Jehovah our God will silence them.
―Psalms 94: 1-23 [NWT]
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