Psalms 94:5
Thy people, O Lord! they crush, and thy heritage they afflict.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.
In Context
4They sputter, they speak hard things: all the workers of wickedness boast themselves.
6The widow and the stranger they slay, and the fatherless they murder.
Cross References
Psalms 7:2(7:3) Lest he tear like a lion my soul, rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.
Psalms 44:22(44:23) But for thy sake are we slain all the day; we are counted as flocks [destined] for slaughter.
Psalms 74:19Oh give not up unto the multitude of enemies the soul of thy turtle-dove: the congregation of thy afflicted do not thou forget for ever.
Psalms 79:7For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling-place.
Isaiah 3:15What mean ye that ye crush my people, and grind down the faces of the poor? saith the Lord the Eternal of hosts.
Jeremiah 22:17But thy eyes and thy heart are directed on nothing but upon thy own gain, and upon innocent blood to shed it, and upon oppression, and upon extortion, to practise them.
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 →