Psalms 94 · Verse 5

Psalms 94:5

They break in pieces thy people, O Lord, and afflict thine heritage.
Psalms 94:5, King James Version

Psalms 94:5 in other translations

BSBThey crush Your people, O LORD; they oppress Your heritage.
WEBThey break your people in pieces, LORD, and afflict your heritage.
ASVThey break in pieces thy people, O Jehovah, And afflict thy heritage.
YLTThy people, O Jehovah, they bruise, And Thine inheritance they afflict.
DARBYThey crush thy people, O Jehovah, and afflict thine inheritance;
BBEYour people are crushed by them, O Lord, your heritage is troubled,
WebsterThey break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thy heritage.

What does Psalms 94:5 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 94:5-6
5-6. thy people [and] thine heritage--are synonymous, the people being often called God's heritage. As justice to the weak is a sign of the best government, their oppression is a sign of the worst (De 10:18; Is 10:2).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 5 They break in pieces thy people - This was true af the Babylonians. Nehuchadnezzar slew many; carried the rest into captivity; ruined Jerusalem; overturned the temple; sacked, pillaged, and destroyed all the country.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 94:1-11

We may with boldness appeal to God; for he is the almighty Judge by whom every man is judged. Let this encourage those who suffer wrong, to bear it with silence, committing themselves to Him who judges righteously. These prayers are prophecies, which speak terror to the sons of violence. There will come a day of reckoning for all the hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against God, his truths, and ways…

Read the full comment on Psalms 94:1-11 →

Psalms 94:5 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

עַמְּךָ֣'a.me.Khapeople yourH5971
יְהוָ֣הYah.wehO YahwehH3068
יְדַכְּא֑וּye.da.ke.'Uthey crushH1792
וְֽנַחֲלָתְךָ֥ve.na.cha.la.te.Khaand inheritance yourH5159
יְעַנּֽוּ\׃ye.'a.Nuthey afflictH6031

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Cross references for Psalms 94:5

  • Isaiah 3:15

    What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord God of hosts.

  • Psalms 79:2-3

    The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.

  • Jeremiah 50:11

    Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;

  • Psalms 7:2

    Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

  • Revelation 11:3

    And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.

  • Psalms 79:7

    For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.

  • Isaiah 52:5

    Now therefore, what have I here, saith the Lord, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the Lord; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.

  • Psalms 14:4

    Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the Lord.

  • Jeremiah 51:20-23

    Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms; And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider; With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid; I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers.

  • Micah 3:2-3

    Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

  • Psalms 74:19-20

    O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever. Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.

  • Jeremiah 22:17

    But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
break.
7:2; 14:4; 44:22; 74:8,19,20; 79:2,3,7; 129:2,3; Isa 3:15; 52:5
Jer 22:17; 51:20-23,34; Mic 3:2,3; Re 17:6
afflict.
Ex 2:23,24; Jer 50:11; Re 11:3

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Context

  • Psalms 94:4

    How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?

  • Psalms 94:5

    They break in pieces thy people, O Lord, and afflict thine heritage.

  • Psalms 94:6

    They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

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Psalms 94:5 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		A tu pueblo, oh Jehová, quebrantan, y á tu heredad afligen.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Ils foulent ton peuple, ô Éternel! et affligent ton héritage;
German
Elberfelder 1871		Dein Volk, Jehova, zertreten und dein Erbteil bedrücken sie.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		quoniam ipsius est mare, et ipse fecit illud, et siccam manus ejus formaverunt.