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Psalm 94 Bible study: He who formed the eye

The prayer "Pay back the proud what they deserve" (94:2) and the last verse's "He has brought on them their own iniquity" (94:23) share one Hebrew verb. And the God "who disciplines the nations" and "teaches man" (94:10) is the one who disciplines and teaches the blessed man (94:12): the same two verbs.

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“In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul.”
Psalm 94:19 · World English Bible

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“In Psalm 94, right after the wicked say Jacob's God won't consider, the psalm tells the senseless to consider.”

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What's really going on

A prayer to the judge of the earth

In the text

The psalm has no title. It opens as a prayer: "LORD, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out" (94:1) (tap vengeance, shine). In Hebrew God to whom vengeance belongs is el neqamot, and the line says it twice. Then: "Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve" (94:2). The prayer is spoken to God, as "judge of the earth" (94:2). Then comes the question: "LORD, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph?" (94:3). The psalm says what the wicked do. "They pour out arrogant words" (94:4) (tap arrogant). "They break your people in pieces, LORD, and afflict your heritage" (94:5). "They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless" (94:6) (tap murder). And it says what they think of God: "The LORD will not see, neither will Jacob’s God consider" (94:7).

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  • Unless the LORD had been my help
  • "The Lord knows" in a letter of Paul's
  • "He will never see it" in other psalms
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The Hebrew word behind it

נְקָמָהneqamahsay ne-ka-MAH

Brown-Driver-Briggs: "vengeance". Strong's: "avengement, whether the act or the passion". "LORD, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs" (94:1): here it is plural, neqamot, twice in one line, and the psalm calls God by it. The Psalms have it five times in Hebrew. One is "even the God who executes vengeance for me" (Psalm 18:47), where it is plural too. Psalm 79 asks it of God: "that vengeance for your servants’ blood is being poured out" (Psalm 79:10). The chapter on Psalm 79 follows the word there.

For your group

Psalm 94 Bible study questions

  1. 1The wicked say, "The LORD will not see" (94:7). When is it easiest for you to live as if God doesn't see?
  2. 2"When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, LORD, held me up" (94:18). When have you felt your foot slipping, and what held you up?
  3. 3"In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul" (94:19). Which thoughts crowd in on you most, and where do you look for comfort?

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