Psalms 94:5

What does Psalms 94:5 mean?

A plain-English look at Psalms 94:5 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

They break in pieces thy people, O Jehovah, And afflict thy heritage.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

They break in pieces thy people, O Jehovah, And afflict thy heritage.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

Your people are crushed by them, O Lord, your heritage is troubled,

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

Thy people, O Jehovah, they bruise, And Thine inheritance they afflict.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

For the sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

They crush thy people, O Jehovah, and afflict thine inheritance;

Context

v.4They prate, they speak arrogantly: All the workers of iniquity boast themselves.

v.5This passage

v.6They slay the widow and the sojourner, And murder the fatherless.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Psalms 44:22

    Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

  • Revelation 11:3

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

  • Isaiah 52:5

    Now therefore, what do I here, saith Jehovah, seeing that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them do howl, saith Jehovah, and my name continually all the day is blasphemed.

  • Psalms 79:7

    For they have devoured Jacob, And laid waste his habitation.

  • Jeremiah 50:11

    Because ye are glad, because ye rejoice, O ye that plunder my heritage, because ye are wanton as a heifer that treadeth out the grain, and neigh as strong horses;

  • Exodus 2:23

    And it came to pass in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.

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