Psalms 94:5
They crush thy people, O Jehovah, and afflict thine inheritance;
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.
In Context
4[How long] shall they utter [and] speak insolence all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
6They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless,
Cross References
Psalms 7:2Lest he tear my soul like a lion, crushing it while there is no deliverer.
Psalms 44:22But for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are reckoned as sheep for slaughter.
Psalms 74:19Give not up the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast; forget not the troop of thine afflicted for ever.
Psalms 79:7For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his habitation.
Isaiah 3:15What mean ye that ye crush my people, and grind the faces of the afflicted? saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
Jeremiah 22:17But thine eyes and thy heart are only on thine extortion, and on the blood of the innocent, to shed it, and on oppression and on violence, to do it.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 94:2-12
Appeal to God against Persecutors; The Folly of Atheists and Oppressors. 1 O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, show thyself. 2 Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud. 3 Lord , how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph? 4 How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves? 5 They break in pieces thy people, O Lord , and afflict thine heritage. 6 They slay the widow and the… Read the whole commentary →