Christian Standard Bible
Psalms 94:5
5Lord, they crush your people; they oppress your 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
3Lord, how long will the wicked — how long will the wicked celebrate? 4They pour out arrogant words; all the evildoers boast. Lord, they crush your people; they oppress your heritage. 6They kill the widow and the resident alien and murder the fatherless. 7They say, “The Lord doesn’t see it. The God of Jacob doesn’t pay attention.”
Read all of Psalms 94Psalms 94:5 word by word
עַמְּךָ֣ יְהוָ֣ה יְדַכְּא֑וּ וְֽנַחֲלָתְךָ֥ יְעַנּֽוּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 94:5
- Psalms 7:2or they will tear me like a lion, ripping me apart with no one to rescue me.
- Psalms 14:4Will evildoers never understand? They consume my people as they consume bread; they do not call on the Lord.
- Psalms 44:22Because of you we are being put to death all day long; we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.
- Psalms 74:8They said in their hearts, “Let’s oppress them relentlessly.” They burned every place throughout the land where God met with us.
- Psalms 79:2They gave the corpses of your servants to the birds of the sky for food, the flesh of your faithful ones to the beasts of the earth.
- Psalms 129:2since my youth they have often attacked me, but they have not prevailed against me.
- Isaiah 3:15Why do you crush my people and grind the faces of the poor?” This is the declaration of the Lord God of Armies.
- Isaiah 52:5So now what have I here” — this is the Lord’s declaration — “that my people are taken away for nothing? Its rulers wail” — this is the Lord’s declaration — “and my name is continually blasphemed all day long.
- Jeremiah 22:17But you have eyes and a heart for nothing except your own dishonest profit, shedding innocent blood and committing extortion and oppression.
- Jeremiah 51:20You are my war club, my weapons of war. With you I will smash nations; with you I will bring kingdoms to ruin.
- Micah 3:2You hate good and love evil. You tear off people’s skin and strip their flesh from their bones.
- Revelation 17:6Then I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses to Jesus. When I saw her, I was greatly astonished.
- Exodus 2:23After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned because of their difficult labor, they cried out, and their cry for help because of the difficult labor ascended to God.
- Jeremiah 50:11Because you rejoice, because you celebrate — you who plundered my inheritance — because you frolic like a young cow treading grain and neigh like stallions,
- Revelation 11:3I will grant my two witnesses authority to prophesy for 1,260 days, dressed 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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Commentaries on Psalms 94
- 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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