Psalms 94:13-23

13 Providing a circle of quiet within the clamor of evil, while a jail is being built for the wicked.

14 God will never walk away from his people, never desert his precious people.

15 Rest assured that justice is on its way and every good heart put right.

16 Who stood up for me against the wicked? Who took my side against evil workers?

17 If God hadn't been there for me, I never would have made it.

18 The minute I said, "I'm slipping, I'm falling," your love, God, took hold and held me fast.

19 When I was upset and beside myself, you calmed me down and cheered me up.

20 Can Misrule have anything in common with you? Can Troublemaker pretend to be on your side?

21 They ganged up on good people, plotted behind the backs of the innocent.

22 But God became my hideout, God was my high mountain retreat,

23 Then boomeranged their evil back on them: for their evil ways he wiped them out, our God cleaned them out for good.

Psalms 94:13-23 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.