Psalm 94:19

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 94:19

Psalms 94:19. In the multitude of my thoughts within me While my heart is filled with various and perplexing thoughts, as the original word signifies, and tormented with cares and fears about my future state; thy comforts delight my soul Thy promises, contained in thy word, and the remembrance of my former experience of thy care and kindness to me, afford me such consolation as revives my dejected mind. read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Psalms 94:1-23

Psalms 94:0 God the judge of allThe psalmist, tired of the oppression caused by the proud and the wicked, calls for a fitting divine punishment on all those who oppose God and his ways (1-3). They brutally crush the poor and the helpless, thinking that God does not see them (4-7). How foolish of them. They forget that God is the one who made them. He knows what they are and what they do. He controls their destinies and will punish them for their wrongdoing (8-11).God does not desert the godly... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Psalms 94:19

thoughts = perplexities. comforts. Occurs only here, Isaiah 66:11 , and Jeremiah 16:7 , where it is rendered "consolations". read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Psalms 94:19

Psalms 94:19. In the multitude of my thoughts— When my solicitudes are multiplied within me. The word שׂרעפי sarappai, solicitudes, means the discursus, or branchings of the mind; a word which strongly expresses the action of the soul when it sends itself forth on all sides. "The old version renders it, In the multitude of the sorrows; which must be in some sort peculiar to the men of thought and reflection. That there are such sorrows, we learn from one who was a man of thought; Ecclesiastes... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Psalms 94:19

19. my thoughts—or, anxious cares. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 94:1-23

Psalms 94This psalm, which begins as a national lament (Psalms 94:1-15) and ends as an individual lament (Psalms 94:16-23), calls on God to avenge the righteous whom the wicked oppress unjustly. It manifests faith in the justice of God. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 94:16-19

After looking everywhere for some consolation during the temporary ascendancy of the wicked, the psalmist found it only in God. If God had not strengthened him he would have died, slipped in his walk with God, and become mentally distracted. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 94:16-23

3. A reason for consolation 94:16-23 read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 94:1-23

This is a national Ps., written at a time when Israel was oppressed by foreign enemies. It may be connected either with the days of the exile or with some later period of national distress. The opening vv. appeal to God to show Himself as judge of the earth (Psalms 94:1-2). The misdeeds of the oppressors are next described (Psalms 94:3-7), and a rebuke is addressed to certain Israelites who were tempted to give up their faith in God (Psalms 94:8-11). The next vv. speak of the blessings of... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 94:19

(19) Thoughts.—Properly, dividing—i.e., “perplexing” or “anxious” thoughts. (See Job 4:13; Job 20:2.) LXX. and Vulg., “griefs.”We may compare the Virgilian “animum nunc huc celerem, nunc dividit illuc,” imitated by Tennyson:This way and that dividing his swift mind,In act to throw.”Delight.—Literally, stroke, and so soothe. The Hebrew word is used in Isaiah 66:11 of a mother quieting her child with the breast, and in Jeremiah 16:7 of the cup of consolation given to mourners at funerals. read more

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