{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/jfb/psa094.htm","path":"bib/cmt/jfb/psa094.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/jfb/psa094.htm","text":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]\nGod's revenge is His judicial infliction of righteous punishment.\nshow thyself--(Compare Margin).\nLift up thyself--or, \"Arise,\" both figures representing God as heretofore indifferent (compare Psa 3:7; Psa 22:16, Psa 22:20).\nIn an earnest expostulation he expresses his desire that the insolent triumph of the wicked may be ended.\nthy 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 (Deu 10:18; Isa 10:2).\nTheir cruelty is only exceeded by their wicked and absurd presumption (Psa 10:11; Psa 59:7).\nye brutish--(Compare Psa 73:22; Psa 92:6).\nThe evidence of God's providential government is found in His creative power and omniscience, which also assure us that He can punish the wicked in regard to all their vain purposes.\nOn the other hand He favors though He chastens, the pious, and will teach and preserve them till the prosperous wicked are overthrown.\nThis results from His abiding love (Deu 32:15), which is further evinced by His restoring order in His government, whose right administration will be approved by the good.\nThese questions imply that none other than God will help (Psa 60:9),\na fact fully confirmed by his past experience.\ndwelt in silence--as in the grave (Psa 31:17).\nmy thoughts--or, anxious cares.\nthrone--power, rulers.\niniquity [and] mischief--both denote evils done to others, as Psa 94:21 explains.\nYet he is safe in God's care.\ndefence-- (Psa 59:9).\nrock of . . . refuge-- (Psa 9:9; Psa 18:2).\nbring . . . iniquity--(Compare Psa 5:10; Psa 7:16).\nin their . . . wickedness--while they are engaged in evil doing.","title":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments: Psalms: Psalms Chapter 94","type":"page"}