Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 94:5
Those righteous persons whom thou hast chosen for thy portion or inheritance.
Those righteous persons whom thou hast chosen for thy portion or inheritance.
Verse Psalms 94:5. _THEY BREAK IN PIECES THY PEOPLE_] This was true of the Babylonians. Nehuchadnezzar slew many; carried the rest into captivity; ruined Jerusalem; overturned the temple; sacked, pill...
THEY BREAK IN PIECES THY PEOPLE - They tread down; they grind; they crush. The Hebrew word is often used as meaning to crush under foot; to trample on; and hence, it means to oppress. Lamentations 3:3...
PSALM 94-100 Psalms 94 Prayer for the Execution of the Vengeance of God _ 1. The Prayer on account of the enemy (Psalms 94:1)_ 2. Expostulation with the wicked (Psalms 94:8) 3. The comfort of the...
XCIV. A PRAYER FOR VENGEANCE ON OPPRESSIVE RULERS AND FOR DELIVERANCE FROM THEM. Psalms 94:1. The wickedness of the arrogant. The bad rulers here are evidently Jews. They are oppressors, not invaders...
Psalms 92-97 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Service of Song for a Sabbath Day. ANALYSIS Psalms 92: Personal SongProbably by a King. Psalms 93: Jehovah Proclaimed King. Psalms 94: Prayer for Vengeance on the...
They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage. THEY BREAK IN PIECES THY PEOPLE, O LORD - a sample of the deeds of "the workers of iniquity," as is a sample of their words. A...
This is a national Ps., written at a time when Israel was oppressed by foreign enemies. It may be connected either with the days of the exile or with some later period of national distress. The openin...
Psalms 90:106 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ GOD, SHOW THAT YOU ARE A GREAT *JUDGE! PSALMS 94 Jesus said, "I am a good *judge. I do not do what I want to do. I obey the words of (God) that sent me". ...
BREAK IN PIECES. — Or, _crush._ (See Isaiah 3:15, where the word is in parallelism with “grind the faces of the poor.”)...
עַמְּךָ֣ יְהוָ֣ה יְדַכְּא֑וּ וְֽ נַחֲלָתְךָ֥ יְעַנּֽוּ׃...
Psalms 94:1 THE theme of God the Judge is closely allied to that of God the King, as other psalms of this group show, in which His coming to judge the world is the subject of rapturous praise. This ps...
THE LORD WHO RULETH OVER ALL Psalms 93:1; Psalms 94:1 It is thought that these two psalms date from the Assyrian invasion in Hezekiah's time, and that the psalmist compares the strength of Sennacheri...
The placing of this song immediately after the one which sets forth the fact of the enthronement of Jehovah is remarkable. It creates a contrast, while it suggests a continuity of ideas. The contrast...
They (d) break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage. (d) Seeing the Church was then so sore oppressed, it ought not to seem strange to us, if we see it so now, and therefore we mu...
_Formed. Like a potter, plasmaverunt, (St. Jerome; Calmet) or "have laid the foundations of the dry land. " (St. Augustine; Roman Breviary) (Haydock)_...
It is always a mark of grace when the Lord's afflicted ones can commit their cause, be it what it may, into the hands of God. But though a believing soul can, and will refer all into the divine wisdom...
5_They break in pieces thy people, O Jehovah! _Having spoken of their discourse or language as vain-glorious and shameless, he proceeds to speak of their deeds, in cruelly persecuting the Church. It i...
Psalms 94 gives us this cry, which is at the same time the expression of the fullest intelligence of their position, of the dealings of God, of the position of the wicked, and the result about to be p...
THEY BREAK IN PIECES THY PEOPLE, O LORD,.... Not the Israelites, as Kimchi; but the church of Christ, by their anathemas, cruel edicts, and persecutions; by confiscating their goods, imprisoning their...
They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage. Ver. 5. _They break in pieces thy people_] They make potsherds of them. And this is the best use they make of thy patience; break...
_They afflict thy heritage_ Those righteous persons whom thou hast chosen for thy portion or inheritance. _They slay the widow_, &c. Whom common humanity obliged them to spare, pity, and relieve. _Yet...
AGAINST TYRANTS IN THE CHURCH. The psalmist, whose name is not given, appeals to God in view of the oppression of the adversaries, who included not only the enemies from without, but also the tyrants...
They break in pieces Thy people, O Lord, crushing the believers by their tyranny, AND AFFLICT THINE HERITAGE, the Church of God being known by this designation, and the affliction including every form...
1-11 We may with boldness appeal to God; for he is the almighty Judge by whom every man is judged. Let this encourage those who suffer wrong, to bear it with silence, committing themselves to Him who...
Psalms 94:5 pieces H1792 (H8762) people H5971 LORD H3068 afflict H6031 (H8762) heritage H5159 break -...
This is the prayer of a man of God in great trouble, standing out for God in an evil day, when the Lord's people were greatly oppressed, and the honour of God was being trampled in the mire. The praye...
Let us read this evening the ninety-fourth Psalm, and may the Spirit of God instruct us while we read it! Psalms 94:1. _O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, sh...
CONTENTS: An appeal to God to appear for His people against His and their enemies. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: There is a God to whom vengeance belongs who will certainly call enemies to...
This psalm was written under great oppression, in a time of war, but it bears no marks of being written in Babylon, for then they had no hope to rise against the wicked: Psalms 94:16. Psalms 94:6. _Th...
_O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth. .. show Thyself._ PERSECUTORS AND THEIR VICTIMS I. The awful condition of the wicked persecutor. The persecutors referred to (Psalms 94:1) are represented as...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 94:1. This is a community lament, written for a time when the wicked not only exult (v. Psalms 94:3) but also oppress the faithful (many of wh
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 94:4 These verses list the activities of these EVILDOERS. They POUR OUT THEIR ARROGANT WORDS and BOAST (the quoted words of v....
INTRODUCTION “There is no superscription to this Psalm. There is no indication of its authorship, of the period at which it was written, or of the circumstances to which it refers. There are many of t...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm is primarily (Psalms 94:1) a "cry for vengeance on Israel's oppressors, passing into an appeal for more faith to God's own people" (Cheyne). In the latter half (Psalms 94:12) the...
O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth (Psalms 94:1); Now, it's hard for us to remember that. "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord" (Romans 12:19). So often we try to take vengeance ourse...
Exodus 2:23; Exodus 2:24; Isaiah 3:15; Isaiah 52:5; Jeremiah 22:17;...