Psalms 94:5
They break your people in pieces, LORD, and afflict your heritage.
World English 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 the evildoers boast.
6They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.
Cross References
Psalms 7:2lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.
Psalms 44:22Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.
Psalms 74:19Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.
Psalms 79:7for they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland.
Isaiah 3:15What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?” says the Lord, GOD of Armies.
Jeremiah 22:17But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”
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 →