Psalm 94:3-13

3 (93-3) How long shall sinners, O Lord: how long shall sinners glory?

4 (93-4) Shall they utter, and speak iniquity: shall all speak who work injustice?

5 (93-5) Thy people, O Lord, they have brought low: and they have afflicted thy inheritance.

6 (93-6) They have slain the widow and the stranger: and they have murdered the fatherless.

7 (93-7) And they have said: The Lord shall not see: neither shall the God of Jacob understand.

8 (93-8) Understand, ye senseless among the people: and, you fools, be wise at last.

9 (93-9) He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? or he that formed the eye, doth he not consider?

10 (93-10) He that chastiseth nations, shall he not rebuke: he that teacheth man knowledge?

11 (93-11) The Lord knoweth the thoughts of men, that they are vain.

12 (93-12) Blessed is the man whom thou shalt instruct, O Lord: and shalt teach him out of thy law.

13 (93-13) That thou mayst give him rest from the evil days: till a pit be dug for the wicked.

Psalm 94:3-13 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.