Psalms 94:12-23

12 ¹Blessed is the man whom you ²discipline, O LORD, and whom you teach out of your law,

13 to give him ³rest from ⁴days of trouble, until ⁵a pit is dug for the wicked.

14 ⁶For the LORD will not forsake his ⁷people; he will not abandon his ⁸heritage;

15 for ⁹justice will return to the righteous, and all the upright in heart will ¹⁰follow it.

16 ¹¹Who rises up for me against the wicked? Who stands up for me against evildoers?

17 ¹²If the LORD had not been my help, my soul would soon have lived in the land of ¹³silence.

18 When I thought, ¹⁴"My foot slips," your steadfast love, O LORD, ¹⁵held me up.

19 When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul.

20 Can ¹⁶wicked rulers be allied with you, those who frame injustice by ¹⁷statute?

21 They ¹⁸band together against the life of the righteous and condemn ¹⁹the innocent to death.^[a]

22 But the LORD has become my ²⁰stronghold, and my God ²¹the rock of my ²²refuge.

23 He will bring back on them ²³their iniquity and ²⁴wipe them out for their wickedness; the LORD our God will wipe them out.

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Psalms 94:12-23 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 94

Some, as Jarchi and others, think this psalm was written by Moses; others, with greater probability, assign it to David; as do the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and all the Oriental versions; and which all but the Syriac version say it was composed to be sung on the fourth day of the week, on which day the Talmudists say it was sung; see the argument of the preceding psalm. This psalm and others, that go before and follow, are without any title in the Hebrew Bible: the title of it in the Syriac version is,

``a Psalm of David, concerning the company of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram; but spiritually, concerning the persecution against the church;''

not of the oppression of the Israelites in Egypt, as some; nor of the Jews in their present exile, as Kimchi; but rather of the people of God under the tyranny of antichrist; who are represented as complaining of his insults and cruelty, and as comforting themselves in the hopes of deliverance, and in the view of his destruction.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 24

1. Proverbs 3:11, 12; Hebrews 12:5, 6; See Job 5:17
2. Deuteronomy 8:5; 1 Corinthians 11:32
3. Job 34:29
4. Psalms 49:5
5. Psalms 55:23
6. 1 Samuel 12:22; Romans 11:2
7. Deuteronomy 32:9
8. Deuteronomy 32:9
9. [Isaiah 42:3]
10. 1 Samuel 12:14; 1 Kings 14:8
11. See Psalms 12:5
12. Psalms 124:1, 2
13. See Psalms 31:17
14. Psalms 38:16; [Psalms 73:2]
15. [Psalms 20:2]
16. [Amos 6:3]
17. Psalms 50:16; Psalms 58:2; Isaiah 10:1
18. Matthew 27:1
19. Matthew 27:4
20. See Psalms 9:9
21. See Psalms 18:2
22. See Psalms 14:6
23. See Psalms 7:16; Psalms 34:21; [Proverbs 2:22]
24. [Psalms 92:9]

Footnotes 1

[a]. Hebrew condemn innocent blood

The English Standard Version is published with the permission of Good News Publishers.