15 For judgment will return to righteousness, and all the upright in heart will follow it.

16 Who will rise up for me against evildoers? Who will stand for me against those who do iniquity?

17 If the Lord had not been my helper, my soul would soon have dwelt in the land of silence.

18 When I said, 'My foot is shaking,' Your mercy, O Lord, sustained me.

19 As my afflictions abound in my heart, Thy consolations delight my soul.

20 Shall there be near thee the seat of the destroyers, who devise violence against the law?

21 In a crowd they rush upon the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

22 But the LORD is my protection, and my God is the stronghold of my refuge,

23 And he will bring their iniquity against them, and by their wickedness he will destroy them, the Lord our God will destroy them.

Psalm 94

[Song of Praise of David.]

1 Come, let us sing to the Lord, let us cry out to [God], the stronghold of our salvation;

2 Let us stand before him with praise, and in song we shall cry unto him,

3 for the Lord is a great God, and a great King over all gods.

4 In his hand are the depths of the earth, and the tops of the mountains are his;

5 His is the sea, and he made it, and the dry land was formed by his hands.

6 Come, let us bow down, and fall down, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker;

7 for he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Oh, that ye would now hear His voice:

8 "Harden not your heart, as in Meribah, as in the day of temptation in the wilderness,

9 where your fathers tempted me, tried me, and saw my work.

10 For forty years I was angry with this generation, and said, This is a people that is in error in heart; they have not known my ways;