Psalms 94:5
Thy people, O Jehovah, they bruise, And Thine inheritance they afflict.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.
In Context
4They utter — they speak an old saw, All working iniquity do boast themselves.
6Widow and sojourner they slay, And fatherless ones they murder.
Cross References
Psalms 7:2Lest he tear as a lion my soul, Rending, and there is no deliverer.
Psalms 44:22Surely, for Thy sake we have been slain all the day, Reckoned as sheep of the slaughter.
Psalms 74:19Give not up to a company, The soul of Thy turtle-dove, The company of Thy poor ones forget not for ever.
Psalms 79:7For [one] hath devoured Jacob, And his habitation they have made desolate.
Isaiah 3:15What — to you? ye bruise My people, And the faces of the poor ye grind.' An affirmation of the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, And Jehovah saith:
Jeremiah 22:17But thine eyes and thy heart are not, Except on thy dishonest gain, And on shedding of innocent blood, And on oppression, and on doing of 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 →