Ezekiel 22:7; Isaiah 10:2; Isaiah 13:15-18; Jeremiah 22:3; Jeremiah 7:6; Malachi 3:5
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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;...
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...
They afflict thy heritage Those righteous persons whom thou hast chosen for thy portion or inheritance. They slay the widow , &c. Whom common...
Appeal to God against Persecutors; The Folly of Atheists and Oppressors. ...
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 c...
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...
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...
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...
O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth. .. show Thyself. Persecutors and their victims I. The awful condition of the wicked persecutor. The pe...
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...
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...
They slay the widow and the stranger and murder the fatherless, such outrages being reported from almost every period of the Church's history.
6 They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.