Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 94:19
In the multitude of my (m) thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.
(m) In my trouble and distress I always found your present help.
In the multitude of my (m) thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.
(m) In my trouble and distress I always found your present help.
Verse Psalms 94:19. _IN THE MULTITUDE OF MY THOUGHTS_] Of my griefs, (_dolorum_, Vulgate;) my sorrows, (οδυνων, Septuagint.) According to the multitude of my trials and distresses, have been the cons...
IN THE MULTITUDE OF MY THOUGHTS WITHIN ME THY COMFORTS DELIGHT MY SOUL - The Septuagint and the Latin Vulgate render this, “In the multitude of my griefs within me,” etc. DeWette renders it, “Bei mein...
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...
THOUGHTS. perplexities. COMFORTS. Occurs only here, Isaiah 66:11, and Jeremiah 16:7, where it is rendered "consolations"....
DISCOURSE: 659 COMFORT IN GOD Psalms 94:19. _In the multitude of my thoughts within me, thy comforts delight my soul._ TO judge of the efficacy of Divine grace, we should see it in actual exercise, a...
IN THE MULTITUDE OF MY THOUGHTS— _When my solicitudes are multiplied within me._ The word שׂרעפי _sarappai, solicitudes,_ means the _discursus,_ or _branchings of the mind;_ a word which strongly expr...
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...
In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul. IN THE MULTITUDE OF MY THOUGHTS WITHIN ME, THY COMFORTS DELIGHT MY SOUL. "My thoughts" are literally, 'my distracting and perpl...
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". ...
THOUGHTS. — Properly, dividing — _i.e._, “perplexing” or “anxious” thoughts. (See Job 4:13; Job 20:2.) LXX. and Vulg., “griefs.” We may compare the Virgilian “animum nunc huc celerem, nunc dividit il...
בְּ רֹ֣ב שַׂרְעַפַּ֣י בְּ קִרְבִּ֑י תַּ֝נְחוּמֶ֗יךָ...
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...
This is a precious verse. Happy the soul that can adopt the same language! When carnal men are in trouble, they will be turning from one earthly comfort to another, to find relief. But when a child of...
_GOOD THOUGHTS IN BAD TIMES_ ‘The multitude of my thoughts within me.’ Psalms 94:19 This psalm opens with two verses of introduction, in which God is asked to lift up Himself and to show Himself. F...
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...
IN THE MULTITUDE OF MY THOUGHTS WITHIN ME,.... The word for thoughts is used of branches of trees, thick and entwined, and so denotes perplexed and distressing thoughts; such as good men sometimes hav...
In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul. Ver. 19. _In the multitude of my thoughts within me_] My perplexed, intricated, ensnarled, intertwined (as the branches of a tr...
_In the multitude of my thoughts within me_ While my heart is filled with various and perplexing thoughts, as the original word signifies, and tormented with cares and fears about my future state; _th...
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...
In the multitude of my thoughts within me, as worries and anxious cares multiply in his heart, THY COMFORTS DELIGHT MY SOUL, reassuring and refreshing it for cheerfully enduring the afflictions of thi...
12-23 That man is blessed, who, under the chastening of the Lord, is taught his will and his truths, from his holy word, and by the Holy Spirit. He should see mercy through his sufferings. There is a...
IN THE MULTITUDE OF MY THOUGHTS; whilst my heart was filled with _various and perplexing thoughts_, as this Hebrew word signifies, and tormented with cares and fears about my future state. THY COMFORT...
Psalms 94:19 multitude H7230 anxieties H8312 within H7130 comforts H8575 delight H8173 (H8770) soul H5315...
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...
_In the multitude of my thoughts within me Thy comforts delight my soul._ COMFORT AMID DISQUIETING THOUGHTS The word here translated “thoughts” means thoughts of a pensive, anxious nature--thoughts w...
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 94:19 The specific CARES are those expressed in the psalm, e.g., v. Psalms 94:3. The CONSOLATIONS are the assurances th
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...
1 Peter 1:7; 1 Peter 1:8; 2 Corinthians 1:4; 2 Corinthians 1:5;...
Thoughts — While my heart was filled with various and perplexing thoughts, as this Hebrew word signifies. Comforts — Thy promises, and the remembrance of my former experience of thy care and kindness....