Psalms 94:8

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.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 94:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 mo...
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

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...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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, whate...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise? Understand, ye brutish among the people. The Psalmist turns from...
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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Understand] RV 'consider.' Brutish.. fools ] These words refer to Israelites who are tempted to adopt the heathen point of view.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(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...
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

This is a beautiful appeal to the oppressor. In the contemplation of the divine perfections, the oppressed believer points out how impossible it is f...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Understand, ye brutish among the people ,.... Or the most brutish and stupid of all people; especially that profess themselves to be the people of G...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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

Understand, ye brutish Hebrew, בערים, bognarim; ye who are governed by your lusts and appetites, as the word signifies; who have only the shape,...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Appeal to God against Persecutors; The Folly of Atheists and Oppressors. ...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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 superlativ...
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 Biblical Illustrator

Yet they say, The Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it. The absurdity of libertinism and infidelity In the style of the...
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

Understand, ye brutish among the people, on a level with the irrational beasts on account of their folly; and ye fools, when will ye be wise? For t...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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:...

⁸ Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?

Related Commentaries of Psalms 94:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the 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

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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 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 94:8