“ Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise? ”
Understand, ye brutish among the people - See Psalms 73:22 . The meaning here is, “You who are like the brutes; you who see and understand no more of the character and plans of God than the wild...
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...
8 Understand, ye stupid among the people As it was execrable impiety to deny God to be Judge of the earth, the Psalmist severely reprimands their folly in thinking to elude his government, a...
Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise? Understand, ye brutish - These are the same expressions as in Psalms 92:6 (note), on which see the note.
Ye brutish—and ye fools— Ye foolish,—Ye thoughtless. Grotius observes on the next verse, that this is a most excellent way of arguing; for, whatever perfection there is in created beings, it is d...
Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise? Understand, ye brutish among the people. The Psalmist turns from the infidel oppressors who uttered the cavil agai...
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...
(8-10) The reality of a Divine Providence is proved both from nature and history — from the physical constitution of man and the moral government of the world. The psalmist’s question is as powerful...
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...
This is a beautiful appeal to the oppressor. In the contemplation of the divine perfections, the oppressed believer points out how impossible it is for the wicked to escape the all-seeing eye and alm...
Understand, ye brutish among the people ,.... Or the most brutish and stupid of all people; especially that profess themselves to be the people of God, or Christians, as the Papists do; and who seem...
Understand, ye brutish among the people: and [ye] fools, when will ye be wise? Ver. 8. Understand, ye brutish ] Ye that are ringleaders to the rest, but no wiser than the reasonless creatures; yea...
Understand, ye brutish Hebrew, בערים, bognarim; ye who are governed by your lusts and appetites, as the word signifies; who have only the shape, but not the understanding, reason, or judgment of...
Appeal to God against Persecutors; The Folly of Atheists and Oppressors. 1 O L ORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O...
You who, though you think yourselves the wisest of men, yet in truth are the most brutish of all people; for the Hebrews oft express their superlatives in this manner, as Proverbs 30:30 Song of S...
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...
Deuteronomy 32:29 ; Isaiah 27:11 ; Jeremiah 10:8 ; Jeremiah 8:6-8 ; Proverbs 1:22 ; Proverbs 12:1 ; Proverbs 8:5 ; Psalms 49:10 ; Psalms 73:22 ; Psalms 92:6 ; Romans 3:11 ; Titus 3:3