Psalms 94

World English Bible 89 include this book

1 LORD, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out.

2 Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve.

3 LORD, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph?

4 They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.

5 They break your people in pieces, LORD, and afflict your heritage.

6 They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.

7 They say, “The LORD will not see, neither will Jacob’s God consider.”

8 Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

9 He who implanted the ear, won’t he hear? He who formed the eye, won’t he see?

10 He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish? He who teaches man knows.

11 The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.

12 Blessed is the man whom you discipline, LORD, and teach out of your law,

13 that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

14 For the LORD won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

15 For judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright in heart shall follow it.

16 Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?

17 Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul would have soon lived in silence.

18 When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, LORD, held me up.

19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul.

20 Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute?

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

22 But the LORD has been my high tower, my God, the rock of my refuge.

23 He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. The LORD, our God, will cut them off.

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28 places named in this book — no place is named in this chapter, so the whole book is shown.

Jerusalem traditional Assembled for temple worship over several centuries.

The traditions broadly agree on this one.

Broad agreement: 1010 BC–400 BC David and many others
The Psalter is a collection assembled over centuries; individual psalms range widely in date.

Events overlapping the period this book is dated to (1010 BC–400 BC).

1200 BC–1000 BC Iron working spreads in the Levant Levant
Iron gradually displaced bronze for tools and weapons across the eastern Mediterranean.
1200 BC–400 BC Olmec civilisation Mesoamerica
The earliest major Mesoamerican civilisation, known for colossal stone heads and an early calendar.
1200 BC–600 BC Zoroaster teaches in Persia Persia
Founder of Zoroastrianism, whose dating is disputed by as much as six centuries. His teaching on a cosmic struggle between good and evil later touched Jewish and Christian thought.
1070 BC–350 AD The kingdom of Kush Africa
A Nubian power on the upper Nile that ruled Egypt itself as its twenty-fifth dynasty.
776 BC First recorded Olympiad Greece
The traditional starting point of Greek historical chronology.
753 BC Traditional founding of Rome Rome
The legendary date of Rome's founding, later used as the anchor of the Roman calendar.
745 BC–609 BC Neo-Assyrian empire at its height Mesopotamia
Assyria dominated the Near East, deporting conquered populations as policy, including the northern kingdom of Israel.
620 BC–560 BC Coinage invented in Lydia Anatolia
Stamped electrum coins of guaranteed weight, an idea that spread across the ancient world within a century.

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