Psalm 94:1-96:13

⁸ Pay heed, you senseless among the people;
And when will you understand, stupid ones?
⁹ He who planted the ear, does He not hear?
He who formed the eye, does He not see?
¹⁰ He who chastens the nations, will He not rebuke,
Even He who teaches man knowledge?
¹¹ The Lord knows the thoughts of man,
That they are a mere breath.

¹² Blessed is the man whom You chasten, O Lord,
And whom You teach out of Your law;
¹³ That You may grant him relief from the days of adversity,
Until a pit is dug for the wicked.
¹⁴ For the Lord will not abandon His people,
Nor will He forsake His inheritance.
¹⁵ For judgment will again be righteous,
And all the upright in heart will follow it.
¹⁶ Who will stand up for me against evildoers?
Who will take his stand for me against those who do wickedness?

¹⁷ If the Lord had not been my help,
My soul would soon have dwelt in the abode of silence.
¹⁸ If I should say, “My foot has slipped,”
Your lovingkindness, O Lord, will hold me up.
¹⁹ When my anxious thoughts multiply within me,
Your consolations delight my soul.
²⁰ Can a throne of destruction be allied with You,
One which devises mischief by decree?
²¹ They band themselves together against the life of the righteous
And condemn the innocent to death.
²² But the Lord has been my stronghold,
And my God the rock of my refuge.
²³ He has brought back their wickedness upon them
And will destroy them in their evil;
The Lord our God will destroy them.

⁶ Come, let us worship and bow down,
Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.
⁷ For He is our God,
And we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand.
Today, if you would hear His voice,
⁸ Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah,
As in the day of Massah in the wilderness,
⁹ “When your fathers tested Me,
They tried Me, though they had seen My work.
¹⁰ “For forty years I loathed that generation,
And said they are a people who err in their heart,
And they do not know My ways.
¹¹ “Therefore I swore in My anger,
Truly they shall not enter into My rest.”

⁷ Ascribe to the Lord, O families of the peoples,
Ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.
⁸ Ascribe to the Lord the glory of His name;
Bring an offering and come into His courts.
⁹ Worship the Lord in holy attire;
Tremble before Him, all the earth.
¹⁰ Say among the nations, “The Lord reigns;
Indeed, the world is firmly established, it will not be moved;
He will judge the peoples with equity.”

¹¹ Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice;
Let the sea roar, and all it contains;
¹² Let the field exult, and all that is in it.
Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy
¹³ Before the Lord, for He is coming,
For He is coming to judge the earth.
He will judge the world in righteousness
And the peoples in His faithfulness.