Salmi 94:1-9

1 O Dio delle vendette, o Eterno, Iddio delle vendette, apparisci nel tuo fulgore!

2 Lèvati, o giudice della terra, rendi ai superbi la loro retribuzione!

3 Fino a quando gli empi, o Eterno, fino a quando gli empi trionferanno?

4 Si espandono in discorsi arroganti, si vantano tutti questi operatori d’iniquità.

5 Schiacciano il tuo popolo, o Eterno, e affliggono la tua eredità.

6 Uccidono la vedova e lo straniero, ammazzano gli orfani,

7 e dicono: L’Eterno non vede, l’Iddio di Giacobbe non ci fa attenzione.

8 Abbiate intendimento, voi gli stolti fra il popolo! E voi, pazzi, quando sarete savi?

9 Colui che ha piantato l’orecchio non udirà egli? Colui che ha formato l’occhio non vedrà egli?

Salmi 94:1-9 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.