Psalms 94:5
They break your people in pieces, Lord,and afflict your heritage.
New Heart 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 none to deliver.
Psalms 44:22Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long.We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.
Psalms 74:19Do not deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts.Do not 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, the Lord of hosts.
Jeremiah 22:17''But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for 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 →