Salmos 93

¹The Lord is the God to whom revenge belongeth: the God of revenge hath acted freely.

²Lift up thyself, thou that judgest the earth: render a reward to the proud.

³How long shall sinners, O Lord: how long shall sinners glory?

⁴Shall they utter, and speak iniquity: shall all speak who work injustice?

⁵Thy people, O Lord, they have brought low: and they have afflicted thy inheritance.

⁶They have slain the widow and the stranger: and they have murdered the fatherless.

⁷And they have said: The Lord shall not see: neither shall the God of Jacob understand.

⁸Understand, ye senseless among the people: and, you fools, be wise at last.

⁹He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? or he that formed the eye, doth he not consider?

¹⁰He that chastiseth nations, shall he not rebuke: he that teacheth man knowledge?

¹¹The Lord knoweth the thoughts of men, that they are vain.

¹²Blessed is the man whom thou shalt instruct, O Lord: and shalt teach him out of thy law.

¹³That thou mayst give him rest from the evil days: till a pit be dug for the wicked. Rest from the evil days. . .That thou mayst mitigate the sorrows, to which he is exposed, during the short and evil days of his mortality.

¹⁴For the Lord will not cast off his people: neither will he forsake his own inheritance.

¹⁵Until justice be turned into judgment: and they that are near it are all the upright in heart. Until justice be turned into judgment, etc. . .By being put in execution; which will be agreeable to all the upright in heart.

¹⁶Who shall rise up for me against the evildoers? or who shall stand with me against the workers of iniquity?

¹⁷Unless the Lord had been my helper, my soul had almost dwelt in hell.

¹⁸If I said: My foot is moved: thy mercy, O Lord, assisted me.

¹⁹According to the multitude of my sorrows in my heart, thy comforts have given joy to my soul.

²⁰Doth the seat of iniquity stick to thee, who framest labour in commandment? Doth the seat of iniquity stick to thee, etc. . .That is, wilt thou, O God, who art always just, admit of the seat of iniquity: that is, of injustice, or unjust judges, to have any partnership with thee? Thou who framest, or makest, labour in commandment, that is, thou who obligest us to labour with all diligence to keep thy commandments.

²¹They will hunt after the soul of the just, and will condemn innocent blood.

²²But the Lord is my refuge: and my God the help of my hope.

²³And he will render them their iniquity : and in their malice he will destroy them: the Lord our God will destroy them.