Psalm 94
Douay-Rheims 1899
Chapter overview
Psalm 94 asks the judge of the earth to answer arrogant oppressors who exploit widows, immigrants, and orphans. Correction gives wisdom, loyal love supports anxious hearts, and corrupt power cannot ultimately define justice.
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1Come let us praise the Lord with joy: let us joyfully sing to God our saviour.
2Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; and make a joyful noise to him with psalms.
3For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
4For in his hand are all the ends of the earth: and the heights of the mountains are his.
5For the sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
6Come let us adore and fall down: and weep before the Lord that made us.
7For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand.
8Today if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts:
9As in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the wilderness: where your fathers tempted me, they proved me, and saw my works.
10Forty years long was I offended with that generation, and I said: These always err in heart.
11And these men have not known my ways: so I swore in my wrath that they shall not enter into my rest.
Verses to memorize from Psalm 94
Douay-Rheims 1899 — Public Domain. Where these translations come from.