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Psalms 93

World English Bible · public domain · whole chapter

¹Yahweh reigns!

²Your throne is established from long ago.

³The floods have lifted up, Yahweh,

⁴Above the voices of many waters,

⁵Your statutes stand firm.

¹Yahweh reigns!

²Your throne is established from long ago.

³The floods have lifted up, Yahweh,

⁴Above the voices of many waters,

⁵Your statutes stand firm.

¹Yahweh reigns!

²Your throne is established from long ago.

³The floods have lifted up, Yahweh,

⁴Above the voices of many waters,

⁵Your statutes stand firm.

In context

Psalms 93 is read as a whole chapter — not a single verse pulled free of what surrounds it.

Immediately before

¹¹My eye has also seen my enemies.

¹²The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree.

¹³They are planted in Yahweh’s house.

¹⁴They will still produce fruit in old age.

¹⁵to show that Yahweh is upright.

Immediately after

¹Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs,

²Rise up, you judge of the earth.

³Yahweh, how long will the wicked,

⁴They pour out arrogant words.

⁵They break your people in pieces, Yahweh,

How this book begins

¹Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked,

²but his delight is in Yahweh’s1:2 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. law.

³He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water,

⁴The wicked are not so,

⁵Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment,

⁶For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous,