“ They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless. ”
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...
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...
They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless. They slay the widow - Nebuchadnezzar carried on his wars with great cruelty. He carried fire and sword every where; spared neither age...
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 f...
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...
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.
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...
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 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, wh...
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 t...
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...
Whom common humanity obliged them to spare, and pity, and relieve.
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...
Ezekiel 22:7 ; Isaiah 10:2 ; Isaiah 13:15-18 ; Jeremiah 22:3 ; Jeremiah 7:6 ; Malachi 3:5