American Standard Version
Psalms 94:5
5They break in pieces thy people, O Jehovah,And afflict thy heritage.
Psalms 94:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)They break in pieces thy people, O Lord, and afflict thine heritage.
- New International Version (NIV)They crush your people, Lord; they oppress your inheritance.
- English Standard Version (ESV)They crush your people, O Lord, and afflict your heritage.
- New King James Version (NKJV)They break in pieces Your people, O Lord, And afflict Your heritage.
Context of Psalms 94:5
3Jehovah, how long shall the wicked, How long shall the wicked triumph? 4They prate, they speak arrogantly: All the workers of iniquity boast themselves. They break in pieces thy people, O Jehovah, And afflict thy heritage. 6They slay the widow and the sojourner, And murder the fatherless. 7And they say, Jehovah will not see, Neither will the God of Jacob consider.
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עַמְּךָ֣ יְהוָ֣ה יְדַכְּא֑וּ וְֽנַחֲלָתְךָ֥ יְעַנּֽוּ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 94:5
- Psalms 7:2Lest they tear my soul like a lion, Rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
- Psalms 14:4Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my peopleasthey eat bread, And call not upon Jehovah?
- Psalms 44:22Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
- Psalms 74:8They said in their heart, Let us make havoc of them altogether: They have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
- Psalms 79:2The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be food unto the birds of the heavens, The flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.
- Psalms 129:2Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up: Yet they have not prevailed against me.
- Isaiah 3:15what mean ye that ye crush my people, and grind the face of the poor? saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
- Isaiah 52:5Now therefore, what do I here, saith Jehovah, seeing that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them do howl, saith Jehovah, and my name continually all the day is blasphemed.
- Jeremiah 22:17But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
- Jeremiah 51:20Thou art my battle-axe and weapons of war: and with thee will I break in pieces the nations; and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;
- Micah 3:2ye who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
- Revelation 17:6And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I wondered with a great wonder.
- Exodus 2:23And it came to pass in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
- Jeremiah 50:11Because ye are glad, because ye rejoice, O ye that plunder my heritage, because ye are wanton as a heifer that treadeth out the grain, and neigh as strong horses;
- Revelation 11:3And I will give unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
Commentaries on Psalms 94:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5They break in pieces thy people - This was true af the Babylonians. Nehuchadnezzar slew many; carried the rest into captivity; ruined Jerusalem; overturned the temple; sacked, pillaged, and destroyed all the country.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5They break in pieces thy people - They tread down; they grind; they crush. The Hebrew word is often used as meaning to crush under foot; to trample on; and hence, it means to oppress. Lamentations 3:34; Isaiah 3:15. And afflict - To wit, by oppression and wrong. If this refers to foreigners, it means that they did this by invasion and by the ravages of war. Thine heritage - Thy people, regarded as an inheritance or possession. See Psalm 28:9, note; Psalm…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-7After the community suffers at the hands of the wicked (Psalm 94:5–7), they pray for the Lord to bring justice (see Psalm 7:11; 9:12).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 5-65-6. thy people [and] thine heritage--are synonymous, the people being often called God's heritage. As justice to the weak is a sign of the best government, their oppression is a sign of the worst (De 10:18; Is 10:2).Read the comment
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- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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