Salmos 94:17-23

17 Se o Senhor não tivesse sido o meu auxílio, já a minha alma estaria habitando no lugar do silêncio.

18 Quando eu disse: O meu pé resvala; a tua benignidade, Senhor, me susteve.

19 Quando os cuidados do meu coração se multiplicam, as tuas consolações recreiam a minha alma.

20 Pode acaso associar-se contigo o trono de iniqüidade, que forja o mal tendo a lei por pretexto?

21 Acorrem em tropel contra a vida do justo, e condenam o sangue inocente.

22 Mas o Senhor tem sido o meu alto retiro, e o meu Deus a rocha do meu alto retiro, e o meu Deus a rocha do meu refúgio.

23 Ele fará recair sobre eles a sua própria iniqüidade, e os destruirá na sua própria malícia; o Senhor nosso Deus os destruirá.

Salmos 94:17-23 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.