93 The Lord rules as king! He is clothed with majesty.
The Lord has clothed himself; he has armed himself with power.
The world was set in place; it cannot be moved.

² Your throne was set in place a long time ago.
You are eternal.

³ The ocean rises, O Lord.
The ocean rises with a roar.
The ocean rises with its pounding waves.
⁴ The Lord above is mighty—
mightier than the sound of raging water,
mightier than the foaming waves of the sea.

⁵ Your written testimonies are completely reliable.
O Lord, holiness is what makes your house beautiful for days without end.

94 O Lord, God of vengeance,
O God of vengeance, appear!
² Arise, O Judge of the earth.
Give arrogant people what they deserve.
³ How long, O Lord, will wicked people triumph?
How long?

⁴ They ramble.
They speak arrogantly.
All troublemakers brag about themselves.
⁵ They crush your people, O Lord.
They make those who belong to you suffer.
⁶ They kill widows and foreigners, and they murder orphans.
⁷ They say, “The Lord doesn’t see it.
The God of Jacob doesn’t even pay attention to it.”

⁸ Pay attention, you stupid people!
When will you become wise, you fools?
⁹ God created ears.
Do you think he can’t hear?
He formed eyes.
Do you think he can’t see?
¹⁰ He disciplines nations.
Do you think he can’t punish?
He teaches people.
Do you think he doesn’t know anything?
¹¹ The Lord knows that people’s thoughts are pointless.

¹² O Lord, blessed is the person
whom you discipline and instruct from your teachings.
¹³ You give him peace and quiet from times of trouble
while a pit is dug to trap wicked people.

¹⁴ The Lord will never desert his people
or abandon those who belong to him.
¹⁵ The decisions of judges will again become fair,
and everyone whose motives are decent will pursue justice.

¹⁶ Who will stand up for me against evildoers?
Who will stand by my side against troublemakers?
¹⁷ If the Lord had not come to help me,
my soul would have quickly fallen silent ⌞in death⌟.

¹⁸ When I said, “My feet are slipping,”
your mercy, O Lord, continued to hold me up.
¹⁹ When I worried about many things,
your assuring words soothed my soul.

²⁰ Are wicked rulers who use the law to do unlawful things
able to be your partners?
²¹ They join forces to take the lives of righteous people.
They condemn innocent people to death.
²² The Lord has become my stronghold.
My God has become my rock of refuge.
²³ He has turned their own wickedness against them.
He will destroy them because of their sins.
The Lord our God will destroy them.

95 Come, let’s sing joyfully to the Lord.
Let’s shout happily to the rock of our salvation.
² Let’s come into his presence with a song of thanksgiving.
Let’s shout happily to him with psalms.
³ The Lord is a great God and a great king above all gods.
⁴ In his hand are the deep places of the earth,
and the mountain peaks are his.
⁵ The sea is his.
He made it, and his hands formed the dry land.

⁶ Come, let’s worship and bow down.
Let’s kneel in front of the Lord, our maker,
⁷ because he is our God
and we are the people in his care,
the flock that he leads.

If only you would listen to him today!
⁸ “Do not be stubborn like ⌞my people were⌟ at Meribah,
like the time at Massah in the desert.
⁹ Your ancestors challenged me and tested me there,
although they had seen what I had done.
¹⁰ For 40 years I was disgusted with those people.
So I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts continue to stray.
They have not learned my ways.’
¹¹ That is why I angrily took this solemn oath:
‘They will never enter my place of rest!’ ”