The Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 94:1-7

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

The cry for vengeance. Israel is suffering oppression—not, however, from foreign enemies, but from domestic tyrants (Psalms 94:4-6). Innocent blood is shed; the widow and the orphan are trodden down.

God, it is supposed, will not see or will not regard (Psalms 94:7). The psalmist, therefore, cries out to God to manifest himself by taking signal vengeance on the evil doers (Psalms 94:1, Psalms 94:2).

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