Psalm 94:5 “They crush Your people, O LORD; they oppress Your heritage.”

Psalm 94:5

They crush Your people, O LORD; they oppress Your heritage.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

They break your people in pieces, LORD, and afflict your heritage.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

They smite downe thy people, O Lord, and trouble thine heritage.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

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

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Cross references

“break”

Isaiah 3:15 Psalm 7:2 Psalm 14:4 Psalm 44:22 Psalm 74:8 Psalm 79:7

Isaiah 3:15 · BSB

Why do you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.

Psalm 7:2 · BSB

or they will shred my soul like a lion and tear me to pieces with no one to rescue me.

Psalm 14:4 · BSB

Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.

Psalm 44:22 · BSB

Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

Psalm 74:8 · BSB

They said in their hearts, “We will crush them completely.” They burned down every place where God met us in the land.

Psalm 79:7 · BSB

for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland.

“afflict”

Jeremiah 50:11 Revelation 11:3 Exodus 2:23 Exodus 2:24

Jeremiah 50:11 · BSB

“Because you rejoice, because you sing in triumph— you who plunder My inheritance— because you frolic like a heifer treading grain and neigh like stallions,

Revelation 11:3 · BSB

And I will empower my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”

Exodus 2:23 · BSB

After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.

Exodus 2:24 · BSB

So God heard their groaning, and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4They pour out arrogant words; all workers of iniquity boast.

6They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.

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