“ But the LORD is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge. ”
But the Lord is my defense ... - In all these purposes of the wicked; in all that they do - whether under the form and sanction of law Psalms 94:20 , or by the excitement of passion - my trust i...
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...
22 But Jehovah has been my fortress The Psalmist declares, that great as were the extremities to which he had been reduced, he had found sufficient help in the single protection of God; thus...
But the LORD is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge. The rock of my refuge - Alluding to those natural fortifications among rocks, which are frequent in the land of Judea.
Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law? -God will not suffer enthroned iniquity to prevail, but will visit the wicked according to their iniqui...
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...
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 Our Defense against Evil-Doers Psalms 94:6-23 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...
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...
Here is the conclusion of every faithful follower of the Lord Jesus. Here he rests the ultimatum of all his exercises. Tell ye the righteous, it shall be well with him. He that rests in Christ, and h...
But the Lord is my defence ,.... The defence of his church and people, of all the righteous, against those great armies of their enemies that gather together against them: the Targum, in the king's...
But the LORD is my defence; and my God [is] the rock of my refuge. Ver. 22. But the Lord is my defence ] Heb. my high place, where I am set out of their reach.
They gather themselves against the soul of the righteous Against the life , as the word here rendered soul commonly signifies, and as the next clause explains it. They are not satisfied with the...
Comfort to Suffering Saints; God the Defence of His People. 12 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O L ORD , and...
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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...
Isaiah 33:16 ; Psalms 18:2 ; Psalms 27:1-3 ; Psalms 59:16 ; Psalms 59:17 ; Psalms 59:9 ; Psalms 62:2 ; Psalms 62:6 ; Psalms 94:10