“ They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage. ”
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. Lamentatio...
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 m...
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...
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 Chu...
They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage. They break in pieces thy people - This was true af the Babylonians. Nehuchadnezzar slew many; carried the rest into captivity; rui...
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 Psalms 94:4 is a sample...
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...
Break in pieces. — Or, crush. (See Isaiah 3:15 , where the word is in parallelism with “grind the faces of the poor.”)
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...
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 th...
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; brea...
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....
Appeal to God against Persecutors; The Folly of Atheists and Oppressors. 1 O L ORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O...
Those righteous persons whom thou hast chosen for thy portion or inheritance.
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...
Exodus 2:23 ; Exodus 2:24 ; Isaiah 3:15 ; Isaiah 52:5 ; Jeremiah 22:17 ; Jeremiah 50:11 ; Jeremiah 51:20-23 ; Jeremiah 51:34 ; Micah 3:2 ; Micah 3:3 ; Psalms 129:2 ; Psalms 129:3 ; Psalm...