94:1 O Lord, the God who avenges!
O God who avenges, reveal your splendor! 2
94:2 Rise up, O judge of the earth!
Pay back the proud!
94:23 He will pay them back for their sin. 3
He will destroy them because of 4 their evil;
the Lord our God will destroy them.
1 sn Psalm 94. The psalmist asks God to judge the wicked and affirms his confidence in God’s justice.
2 tn Heb “shine forth” (see Pss 50:2; 80:1).
3 tn The prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) consecutive is used in a rhetorical sense, describing an anticipated development as if it were already reality.
4 tn Or “in.”