“ Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud. ”
Lift up thyself - Be exalted or lifted up so as to be manifest in thy true character. The idea is that God was, as it were, sitting at his ease, or as if he were indifferent to what was occurring...
XCIV. A Prayer for Vengeance on Oppressive Rulers and for Deliverance from them. Psalms 94:1-6 . The wickedness of the arrogant. The bad rulers here are evidently Jews. They are oppressors, not i...
judge of the earth. This is in keeping with the subject of Book IV. See notes on p. 809.
Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud. Lift up thyself - Exert thy power. Render a reward to the proud - To the Babylonians, who oppress and insult us.
Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud. Lift up thyself, thou Judge of the earth - ( Psalms 7:6 .) Set thyself on high on the throne of judgment. Thou art real...
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 openi...
Lift up thyself — i.e., either be exalted, or rise to give sentence.
Psalms 94:1-23 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....
the Lord Who Ruleth over All Psalms 93:1-5 ; Psalms 94:1-5 It is thought that these two psalms date from the Assyrian invasion in Hezekiah's time, and that the psalmist compares the strength o...
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...
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 wisdo...
Lift up thyself, thou, O Judge of the earth ,.... A title very proper to Christ, and which is given him by Abraham, Genesis 18:25 , who then appeared to him in an human form, and with whom he was c...
Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud. Ver. 2. Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth ] Judges, as they ascend the tribunal, so when to pass sentence they usuall...
O God, to whom vengeance belongeth To whom, as the supreme Judge of the world, the patron and protector of the righteous, and the declared enemy of all wickedness and wicked men, and to whom alone...
Appeal to God against Persecutors; The Folly of Atheists and Oppressors. 1 O L ORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O...
Lift up thyself; either, 1. Ascend thy tribunal to pronounce the sentence. Or, 2. Arise from thy seat, and bestir thyself to punish thy proud enemies, as it here follows.
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...
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,...
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...
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 94:1-10 ) are repre...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm is primarily ( Psalms 94:1-19 ) 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 ( Psa...
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 tyra...
1 Peter 5:5 ; 2 Corinthians 5:10 ; Daniel 4:37 ; Daniel 5:22-24 ; Genesis 18:25 ; Isaiah 10:12 ; Isaiah 2:11 ; Isaiah 2:12 ; Isaiah 2:17 ; Isaiah 37:23 ; Isaiah 37:29 ; Isaiah 37:36-38 ;...