Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Psalms 94:6
Stranger. — The mention of the stranger as one friendless and helpless (Exodus 22:21), under the tyranny of the great, seems to imply that domestic, and not foreign oppression, is the grievance.
Stranger. — The mention of the stranger as one friendless and helpless (Exodus 22:21), under the tyranny of the great, seems to imply that domestic, and not foreign oppression, is the grievance.
Verse Psalms 94:6. _THEY SLAY THE WIDOW_] Nebuchadnezzar carried on his wars with great cruelty. He carried fire and sword every where; spared neither _age, sex_, nor _condition_. The _widow_, the _or...
THEY SLAY THE WIDOW AND THE STRANGER, AND MURDER THE FATHERLESS - To do this is everywhere represented as a special crime, and as especially offensive to God from the fact that these classes are natur...
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 slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless. THEY SLAY THE WIDOW AND THE STRANGER, AND MURDER THE FATHERLESS. As the pagan enemies did not usually make the widow and the fatherl...
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". ...
אַ֭לְמָנָה וְ גֵ֣ר יַהֲרֹ֑גוּ וִֽ יתֹומִ֣ים י
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 OUR DEFENSE AGAINST EVIL-DOERS Psalms 94:6 Let us ponder all the great things that God will do for them that trust Him. He planted the ear, and will detect the sigh, sob, or broken utterance...
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...
_And weep. Hebrew also, "bend the knee;" though this sense would seem less proper, after he had mentioned prostration. Tears of contrition and tenderness may accompany our canticles. (Berthier) --- Kn...
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...
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 SLAY THE WIDOW AND THE STRANGER,.... Who are so both in a literal and figurative sense, such who are weak and feeble, helpless and friendless; or who are deprived of their faithful pastors, who w...
They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless. Ver. 6. _They slay the widow and the stranger_] Those sacred persons, thy proper clients; to such a height of hard heartedness are the...
_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 slay the widow and the stranger and murder the fatherless, such outrages being reported from almost every period of the Church's history....
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...
Whom common humanity obliged them to spare, and pity, and relieve....
Psalms 94:6 slay H2026 (H8799) widow H490 stranger H1616 murder H7523 (H8762) fatherless H3490...
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...
Ezekiel 22:7; Isaiah 10:2; Isaiah 13:15; Jeremiah 22:3; Jeremiah 7:6;