" O L ORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself:" or, God of retribution, Jehovah, God of retribution, shine forth! A very natural prayer when innocence is trampled down, and wickedness exalted on high. He again pleads for help in Psa 94:16, and declares his entire dependence upon God for preservation, Psa 94:17-19 yet a third time urges his complaint, Psa 94:20-21 and then concludes with the confident assurance that his enemies, and all other wicked men, would certainly be made to reap the due reward of their deeds,-"yea, the Lord our God shall cut them off." He then shows that the Lord does bless his people and will deliver them, though for a while they may be chastened, Psa 94:12-15. From Psa 94:8-11 he reasons against their sceptical notion that God did not notice the actions of men. The Psalm is another pathetic form of the old enigma-"Wherefore do the wicked prosper?" It is another instance of a good man perplexed by the prosperity of the ungodly, cheering his heart by remembering that there is, after all, a King in heaven, by whom all things are overruled for good.ĭIVISIONS.-In Psa 94:1-7 the psalmist utters his complaint against wicked oppressors. Confident in God's existence, and assured of his personal observation of the doings of men, the psalmist rebukes his atheistic adversaries, and proclaims his triumph in his God: he also interprets the severe dispensation of Providence to be in very deed most instructive chastisements, and so he counts those happy who endure them. His sense of the divine sovereignty, of which he had been singing in the previous Psalm, leads him to appeal to God as the great Judge of the earth this he does with much vehemence and importunity, evidently tingling under the lash of the oppressor. SUBJECT.-The writer sees evil doers in power, and smarts under their oppressions.
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