Psalms 94:5
crushing your people, Lord, and afflicting your heritage,
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.
In Context
4with their blustering arrogant words, their braggart and wicked speech,
6murdering widows and strangers, slaying the fatherless?
Cross References
Psalms 7:2or like lions they will tear me to pieces, and rend me, past hope of rescue.
Psalms 44:22But in your cause it is we are killed all the day, and counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Psalms 74:19Do not give your dove to the beasts, do not forget your afflicted forever.
Psalms 79:7For Jacob they devoured, they have desolated his home.
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 →