Psalms 94:8-18

8 Understand, ye brutish among the people; and ye fools, when will ye be wise?

9 He that planted the ear, shall He not hear? He that formed the eye, shall He not see?

10 He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not He correct? He that teacheth man knowledge, shall not He know?

11 The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

12 Blessed is the man whom Thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of Thy law,

13 that Thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be dug for the wicked.

14 For the LORD will not cast off His people, neither will He forsake His inheritance.

15 But judgment shall return unto righteousness, and all the upright in heart shall follow it.

16 Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? Or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?

17 Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.

18 When I said, "My foot slippeth," Thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.

Psalms 94:8-18 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.