Psalms 94:6

Whom common humanity obliged them to spare, and pity, and relieve.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless - To do this is everywhere represented as a special crime, and as especially offe...
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...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless. They slay the widow - Nebuchadnezzar carried on his wars with great cruelty. He carr...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless. They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless. As the paga...
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

Stranger. — The mention of the stranger as one friendless and helpless ( Exodus 22:21 ), under the tyranny of the great, seems to imply that domest...
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 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...
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 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;...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 c...
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 slay the widow and the stranger and murder the fatherless, such outrages being reported from almost every period of the Church's history.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 22:7 ; Isaiah 10:2 ; Isaiah 13:15-18 ; Jeremiah 22:3 ; Jeremiah 7:6 ; Malachi 3:5

⁶ They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 94:6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake'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 94:6