English Standard Version
Psalms 94:5
5They crush your people, O Lord, and afflict 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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)They break in pieces Your people, O Lord, And afflict Your heritage.
- New Living Translation (NLT)They crush your people, Lord, hurting those you claim as your own.
Context of Psalms 94:5
3O Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult? 4They pour out their arrogant words; all the evildoers boast. They crush your people, O Lord, and afflict your heritage. 6They kill the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless; 7and they say, "The Lord does not see; the God of Jacob does not perceive."
Read all of Psalms 94Psalms 94:5 word by word
עַמְּךָ֣ יְהוָ֣ה יְדַכְּא֑וּ וְֽנַחֲלָתְךָ֥ יְעַנּֽוּ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 94:5
- Psalms 7:2lest like a lion they tear my soul apart, rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.
- Psalms 14:4Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the Lord?
- Psalms 44:22Yet for your sake we are killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.
- Psalms 74:8They said to themselves, "We will utterly subdue them"; they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.
- Psalms 79:2They have given the bodies of your servants to the birds of the heavens for food, the flesh of your faithful to the beasts of the earth.
- Psalms 129:2"Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me.
- Isaiah 3:15What do you mean by crushing my people, by grinding the face of the poor?" declares the Lord God of hosts.
- Isaiah 52:5Now therefore what have I here," declares the Lord, "seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail," declares the Lord, "and continually all the day my name is despised.
- Jeremiah 22:17But you have eyes and heart only for your dishonest gain, for shedding innocent blood, and for practicing oppression and violence."
- Jeremiah 51:20"You are my hammer and weapon of war: with you I break nations in pieces; with you I destroy kingdoms;
- Micah 3:2you who hate the good and love the evil, who tear the skin from off my people and their flesh from off their bones,
- Revelation 17:6And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I marveled greatly.
- Exodus 2:23During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God.
- Jeremiah 50:11"Though you rejoice, though you exult, O plunderers of my heritage, though you frolic like a heifer in the pasture, and neigh like stallions,
- Revelation 11:3And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 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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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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