Psalms 94:5

Those righteous persons whom thou hast chosen for thy portion or inheritance.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 94:5

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 tramp...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

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 stra...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 h...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

5 They break in pieces thy people, O Jehovah! Having spoken of their discourse or language as vain-glorious and shameless, he proceeds to sp...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage. They break in pieces thy people - This was true af the Babylonians. Nehuchadnezz...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Break in pieces. — Or, crush. (See Isaiah 3:15 , where the word is in parallelism with “grind the faces of the poor.”)
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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 ju...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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 t...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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, whi...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

They break in pieces thy people, O Lord ,.... Not the Israelites, as Kimchi; but the church of Christ, by their anathemas, cruel edicts, and persecu...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 th...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

They afflict thy heritage Those righteous persons whom thou hast chosen for thy portion or inheritance. They slay the widow , &c. Whom common...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Appeal to God against Persecutors; The Folly of Atheists and Oppressors. ...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 c...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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 vengea...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

This is the prayer of a man of God in great trouble, standing out for God in an evil day, when the Lord's people were greatly oppressed, and the hono...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
The Biblical Illustrator

O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth. .. show Thyself. Persecutors and their victims I. The awful condition of the wicked persecutor. The pe...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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 Go...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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 no...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

They break in pieces Thy people, O Lord, crushing the believers by their tyranny, and afflict Thine heritage, the Church of God being known by this...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 ;...

⁵ They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 94:5

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 94:5