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Psalm 94
94:1 O Lord , the God who avenges ! O God who avenges , reveal your splendor ! 94:2 Rise up , O judge of the earth ! Pay back the proud ! 94:3 O Lord , how long will the wicked , how long will the wicked celebrate ? 94:4 They spew out threats and speak defiantly ; all the evildoers boast . 94:5 O Lord , they crush your people ; they oppress the nation that belongs to you . 94:6 They kill the widow and the one residing outside his native land , and they murder the fatherless . 94:7 Then they say , “The Lord does not see this; the God of Jacob does not take notice of it.”

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  • [Psa 94:1] O Lord, Thou Judge

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  • "The passage at hand is without comparison as a discourse on the doctrine of God."56Moses' three rhetorical questions (vv. 32-34) clearly point out the uniqueness of Yahweh."In addition to His self-disclosure in event, in his...
  • The texts of the individual psalms do not usually indicate who wrote them.1However some of the titles of the individual psalms do contain information about the writers.2This is the only really reliable information we have as ...
  • I. Book 1: chs. 1-41II. Book 2: chs. 42-72III. Book 3: chs. 73-89IV. Book 4: chs. 90-106V. Book 5: chs. 107-150...
  • 73:1-3 Asaph began this psalm by affirming God's goodness to His people, specifically those whose hearts are pure because they seek to follow God faithfully (v. 1). This verse provides the key to the psalm by highlighting att...
  • 94:1-3 The writer besought the Lord as the Judge of the earth to punish the wicked who were boasting and rejoicing because they were getting away with oppressing the righteous.94:4-7 These are the specific offenses of the wic...
  • Allen, Ronald B. "Evidence from Psalm 89."In A Case for Premillennialism: A New Consensus, pp. 55-77. Edited by Donald K. Campbell and Jeffrey L. Townsend. Chicago: Moody Press, 1992._____. Lord of Song. Portland: Multnomah P...
  • This pericope contains one of Jeremiah's "confessions,"a self-revelation of the prophet's own struggles to cope with God's actions (cf. 10:23-24; 15:10-12, 15-21; 17:9-11, 14-18; 18:18-23; and 20:7-18).219The heart of this on...
  • "After the oracles against wicked kings, there is a promise of a righteous one, the Shoot of David."313Jeremiah just announced that none of Coniah's descendants would ever rule as kings. Now he went on to clarify that a David...
  • 5:38 Retaliation was common in the ancient Near East. Frequently it led to vendettas in which escalating vengeance continued for generations. Israel's "law of retaliation"(Lat. lex talionis) limited retaliation to no more tha...
  • What happened next evidently took place in heaven.6:9 The altar John saw was evidently in heaven (cf. 8:3, 5; 14:18). Earlier John had seen a throneroom in heaven (chs. 4-5), but now he saw a temple. Probably the concepts of ...
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