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Psalms 94:5
5Lord, see how they hurt your own people. They are cruel to the people that belong to you.
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
3How long will wicked people continue to be happy? Yes, Lord, how long? 4Those people who do evil things speak many proud words. They boast about how great they are. Lord, see how they hurt your own people. They are cruel to the people that belong to you. 6They kill widows and foreign people who live in our land. They murder children that have no family. 7They say, ‘The Lord does not see us. Israel's God does not see what we are doing.’
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 7:2If you do not keep me safe, my enemies will tear me into pieces. They will attack me like lions do, and nobody will be able to save me.
- Psalms 14:4Will those evil people never learn? They destroy my people, as if they are eating a meal. They never pray to the Lord.
- Psalms 44:22But, because we are your people, God, people try to kill us all the time. They think that we are like sheep and we are ready to be killed.
- Psalms 74:8They said to themselves, ‘We will completely destroy them all.’ So they burned down every place in the land where people meet to worship God.
- Psalms 79:2They have let birds come down and eat the dead bodies of your people. Your servants have become food for wild animals to eat.
- Psalms 129:2‘They have often attacked me since I was young, but they have not won against me.
- Isaiah 3:15What are you leaders doing? You should not hurt my people. You should not be cruel to the poor people, as if you are pushing their faces into the dirt.’ The Lord Almighty has said this.
- Isaiah 52:5But now, what is happening? An enemy has taken my people away as slaves, for no good reason. Their leaders boast loudly, and they insult me all the time.
- Jeremiah 22:17‘But you always want to cheat people, so that you can get more riches for yourself. You make plans to kill people who have not done anything wrong. You hurt people in cruel ways.’
- Jeremiah 51:20‘You are the weapon that I use to fight my battles. I have used you to punish nations. I have used you to destroy kingdoms.
- Micah 3:2But you hate what is good. And you love what is bad. You would like to tear the skin off my people, and pull the meat from their bones.
- Revelation 17:6I saw that the woman was like a drunk. She was like someone who had drunk the blood of God's people. She had killed them because they had told other people about Jesus. When I saw her, I was very surprised.
- Exodus 2:23After a long time had passed, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites were still slaves of the Egyptians. That made them very sad and they complained loudly. God heard them when they cried for help.
- Jeremiah 50:11‘You people of Babylon are very happy, because you have robbed my people. You dance like young cows that have fresh grass to eat. You make a happy noise, like a strong male horse.
- Revelation 11:3I will give authority to my two servants who speak my message clearly. They will tell people my messages for 1,260 days. They will wear rough clothes made from goats' hair.’
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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