Psalms — Chapter 94
God of retribution, ETERNAL One,God of retribution, appear!
Rise up, judge of the earth,give the arrogant their deserts!
How long shall the wicked, O ETERNAL One,how long shall the wicked exult,
shall they utter insolent speech,shall all evildoers vaunt themselves?
They crush Your people, O ETERNAL One,they afflict Your very own;
they kill the widow and the stranger;they murder the fatherless,
thinking, “YahaYah See note at 68.5. does not see it,the God of Jacob does not pay heed.”
Take heed, you most brutish people;fools, when will you get wisdom?
Shall the One who implants the ear not hear,the One who forms the eye not see?
Shall the One who disciplines nations not punish,the One who instructs humankind in knowledge?
GOD knows human designs to be futile.
Happy are thosebare those Or “is the virile man.” whom You discipline, O Yah,whom You instruct in Your teaching,
whom You give tranquility in times of misfortune,until a pit be dug for the wicked.
For GOD will not forsake this people;God’s very own will not be abandoned.
Judgment shall again accord with justiceand all the upright shall rally to it.
Who will take my part against evildoers?Who will stand up for me against wrongdoers?
Were not GOD my help,I should soon dwell in silence.
When I think my foot has given way,Your faithfulness, O ETERNAL One, supports me.
When I am filled with cares,Your assurance soothes my soul.
Shall the seat of injustice be Your partner,that frames mischief by statute?
They band together to do away with the righteous;they condemn the innocent to death.
But GOD is my haven;my God is my sheltering rock.
Their evil will be made to recoil upon them,through their own wickedness they will be annihilated; the ETERNAL our God will annihilate them.
✦ Connected Across Traditions
Impermanence & Letting Go
Dhammapada 20:277
“All conditioned things are impermanent. When one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.”
Tao Te Ching 76
“A man is born gentle and weak. At his death he is hard and stiff. The soft and yielding is the disciple of life.”
Ecclesiastes 3:1-2
“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.”
Bhagavad Gita 2:22
“As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones.”
The Path to Wisdom
Dhammapada 20:282
“Wisdom springs from meditation; without meditation wisdom wanes.”
Analects 2:11
“If you study the past and use it to understand the present, you are worthy of being a teacher.”
Tao Te Ching 33
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.”
Quran 39:9
“Are those who know equal to those who do not know?”
Good vs Evil / Light vs Darkness
Yasna 30:3
“Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves as Twins, are the Better and the Bad, in thought and word and action.”
John 1:5
“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”
Dhammapada 1:1-2
“Mind is the forerunner of all actions. If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows like a shadow.”
Bhagavad Gita 16:21
“There are three gates to self-destructive hell: lust, anger, and greed. Therefore, one must learn to give these up.”