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Psalms 94:14

PSALM—NOTE ON Psalms 94:14 Even though the wicked in this psalm are members of “the people” (v. Psalms 94:8), they are nevertheless distinct from God’s people. This implies that the faithful are God’s people in the truest sense, while the faithless among the Israelites are not.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 94:14. _THE LORD WILL NOT CAST OFF HIS PEOPLE_] Though they are now suffering under a grievous and oppressive captivity, yet the Lord hath not utterly cast them off. They are his inherita...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FOR THE LORD WILL NOT CAST OFF HIS PEOPLE ... - He will interpose in their behalf though the wicked seem now to triumph. The certainty of this would give consolation; this would make the mind calm in...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    PSALM 94-100 Psalms 94 Prayer for the Execution of the Vengeance of God _ 1. The Prayer on account of the enemy (Psalms 94:1)_ 2. Expostulation with the wicked (Psalms 94:8) 3. The comfort of the...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    XCIV. A PRAYER FOR VENGEANCE ON OPPRESSIVE RULERS AND FOR DELIVERANCE FROM THEM. Psalms 94:1. The wickedness of the arrogant. The bad rulers here are evidently Jews. They are oppressors, not invaders...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    FOR THE LORD. See Romans 11:1; Romans 11:2....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    Psalms 92-97 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Service of Song for a Sabbath Day. ANALYSIS Psalms 92: Personal SongProbably by a King. Psalms 93: Jehovah Proclaimed King. Psalms 94: Prayer for Vengeance on the...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance. FOR - introducing the ground of the blessedness of those who, being taught by the Lord, have inward rest even in...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    This is a national Ps., written at a time when Israel was oppressed by foreign enemies. It may be connected either with the days of the exile or with some later period of national distress. The openin...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    The first clause is quoted in Romans 11:2....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Psalms 90:106 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ GOD, SHOW THAT YOU ARE A GREAT *JUDGE! PSALMS 94 Jesus said, "I am a good *judge. I do not do what I want to do. I obey the words of (God) that sent me". ...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּ֤י ׀ לֹא ־יִטֹּ֣שׁ יְהוָ֣ה עַמֹּ֑ו וְ֝ נַח

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 94:1 THE theme of God the Judge is closely allied to that of God the King, as other psalms of this group show, in which His coming to judge the world is the subject of rapturous praise. This ps...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE LORD OUR DEFENSE AGAINST EVIL-DOERS Psalms 94:6 Let us ponder all the great things that God will do for them that trust Him. He planted the ear, and will detect the sigh, sob, or broken utterance...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The placing of this song immediately after the one which sets forth the fact of the enthronement of Jehovah is remarkable. It creates a contrast, while it suggests a continuity of ideas. The contrast...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here the subject takes a new turn. From appealing to men, the petitioner turns now unto the Lord; and he puts it down as an unquestionable truth, that, let men persecute how they may, or let the sorro...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    14_Surely Jehovah will not cast off his people _He enforces the same truth which he had stated above in still clearer terms, denying it to be possible that God should cast off his people, whom he had...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Psalms 94 gives us this cry, which is at the same time the expression of the fullest intelligence of their position, of the dealings of God, of the position of the wicked, and the result about to be p...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR THE LORD WILL NOT CAST OFF HIS PEOPLE,.... The people whom he has foreknown, his chosen people, whether among Jews or Gentiles, Romans 11:1, his covenant people, whom he has given to Christ, and w...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance. Ver. 14. _For the Lord will not cast off his people_] Though he cast them into the furnace of affliction. The wicke...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _The Lord will not cast off his people_ Though he may for a time correct, yet he will not utterly destroy, his true and obedient people, as he will their enemies, but will, in due time, put an end to...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AGAINST TYRANTS IN THE CHURCH. The psalmist, whose name is not given, appeals to God in view of the oppression of the adversaries, who included not only the enemies from without, but also the tyrants...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    For the Lord will not cast off His people, the believers being His in spite of the present oppression, NEITHER WILL HE FORSAKE HIS INHERITANCE, His Church....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    12-23 That man is blessed, who, under the chastening of the Lord, is taught his will and his truths, from his holy word, and by the Holy Spirit. He should see mercy through his sufferings. There is a...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Though God may for a time correct his, people, yet he will not utterly destroy them, as he will their enemies, but will in his time put an end to all their calamities....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 94:14 LORD H3068 off H5203 (H8799) people H5971 forsake H5800 (H8799) inheritance H5159 For -...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    This is the prayer of a man of God in great trouble, standing out for God in an evil day, when the Lord's people were greatly oppressed, and the honour of God was being trampled in the mire. The praye...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Let us read this evening the ninety-fourth Psalm, and may the Spirit of God instruct us while we read it! Psalms 94:1. _O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, sh...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: An appeal to God to appear for His people against His and their enemies. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: There is a God to whom vengeance belongs who will certainly call enemies to...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    This psalm was written under great oppression, in a time of war, but it bears no marks of being written in Babylon, for then they had no hope to rise against the wicked: Psalms 94:16. Psalms 94:6. _Th...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth. .. show Thyself._ PERSECUTORS AND THEIR VICTIMS I. The awful condition of the wicked persecutor. The persecutors referred to (Psalms 94:1) are represented as...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Blessed is the man whom Thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out of Thy law._ BLESSED DISCIPLINE I. God’s children are under tuition. Other children may run about, and take holiday; they may wa...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    INTRODUCTION “There is no superscription to this Psalm. There is no indication of its authorship, of the period at which it was written, or of the circumstances to which it refers. There are many of t...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THIS psalm is primarily (Psalms 94:1) a "cry for vengeance on Israel's oppressors, passing into an appeal for more faith to God's own people" (Cheyne). In the latter half (Psalms 94:12) the...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth (Psalms 94:1); Now, it's hard for us to remember that. "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord" (Romans 12:19). So often we try to take vengeance ourse...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 12:22; Deuteronomy 32:9; Ephesians 1:18; Hebrews 13:5;...

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