New Living Translation
Psalms 94:5
5They crush your people, Lord, hurting those you claim as your own.
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, O Lord? How long will the wicked be allowed to gloat? 4How long will they speak with arrogance? How long will these evil people boast? They crush your people, Lord, hurting those you claim as your own. 6They kill widows and foreigners and murder orphans. 7“The Lord isn’t looking,” they say, “and besides, the God of Israel doesn’t care.”
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 don’t, they will maul me like a lion, tearing me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
- Psalms 14:4Will those who do evil never learn? They eat up my people like bread and wouldn’t think of praying to the Lord.
- Psalms 44:22But for your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.
- Psalms 74:8Then they thought, “Let’s destroy everything!” So they burned down all the places where God was worshiped.
- Psalms 79:2They have left the bodies of your servants as food for the birds of heaven. The flesh of your godly ones has become food for the wild animals.
- Psalms 129:2From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me, but they have never defeated me.
- Isaiah 3:15How dare you crush my people, grinding the faces of the poor into the dust?” demands the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
- Isaiah 52:5What is this?” asks the Lord. “Why are my people enslaved again? Those who rule them shout in exultation. My name is blasphemed all day long.
- Jeremiah 22:17“But you! You have eyes only for greed and dishonesty! You murder the innocent, oppress the poor, and reign ruthlessly.”
- Jeremiah 51:20“You are my battle-ax and sword,” says the Lord. “With you I will shatter nations and destroy many kingdoms.
- Micah 3:2but you are the very ones who hate good and love evil. You skin my people alive and tear the flesh from their bones.
- Revelation 17:6I could see that she was drunk—drunk with the blood of God’s holy people who were witnesses for Jesus. I stared at her in complete amazement.
- Exodus 2:23Years passed, and the king of Egypt died. But the Israelites continued to groan under their burden of slavery. They cried out for help, and their cry rose up to God.
- Jeremiah 50:11“You rejoice and are glad, you who plundered my chosen people. You frisk about like a calf in a meadow and neigh like a stallion.
- Revelation 11:3And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will be clothed in burlap and will prophesy during those 1,260 days.”
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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