Psalms 94:5
They crush Your people, O LORD; they oppress Your heritage.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.
In Context
4They pour out arrogant words; all workers of iniquity boast.
6They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.
Cross References
Psalms 7:2or they will shred my soul like a lion and tear me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
Psalms 44:22Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
Psalms 74:19Do not deliver the soul of Your dove to beasts; do not forget the lives of Your afflicted forever.
Psalms 79:7for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland.
Isaiah 3:15Why do you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
Jeremiah 22:17“But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, on practicing extortion and oppression.”
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 →