Psalms 94:1-2

Psalm 94 ¹ 

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!

Psalms 94:23

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.

[94:1]  ¹ sn Psalm 94. The psalmist asks God to judge the wicked and affirms his confidence in God’s justice.

[94:1]  ² tn Heb “shine forth” (see Pss 50:2; 80:1).

[94:23]  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.

[94:23]  ⁴ tn Or “in.”