Psalms 94:5
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“They crush Your people, O LORD; they oppress Your heritage.”
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BSBPD
“They crush Your people, O LORD; they oppress Your heritage.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“They break in pieces thy people, O Lord, and afflict thine heritage.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“They break in pieces thy people, O Jehovah, And afflict thy heritage.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Thy people, O Jehovah, they bruise, And Thine inheritance they afflict.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Psalms 94:5 — 20 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 2:23After 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.
- Psalms 7:2or they will shred my soul like a lion and tear me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
- Psalms 14:4Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.
- Psalms 44:22Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
- Psalms 74:8They said in their hearts, “We will crush them completely.” They burned down every place where God met us in the land.
- Psalms 74:19Do not deliver the soul of Your dove to beasts; do not forget the lives of Your afflicted forever.
- Psalms 79:2They have given the corpses of Your servants as food to the birds of the air, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth.
- Psalms 79:7for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland.
- Psalms 129:2many a time they have persecuted me from my youth, but they have not prevailed against me.
- Isaiah 3:15Why do you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
- Isaiah 52:5And now what have I here? declares the LORD. For My people have been taken without cause; those who rule them taunt, declares the LORD, and My name is blasphemed continually all day long.
- Jeremiah 22:17“But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, on practicing extortion and oppression.”
- Jeremiah 50:11“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,
- Jeremiah 51:20“You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin.
- Jeremiah 51:34“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out.
- Lamentations 3:36to subvert a man in his lawsuit— of these the Lord does not approve.
- Ezekiel 22:7Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.
- Micah 3:2You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones.
- Revelation 11:3And I will empower my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”
- Revelation 17:6I could see that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and witnesses for Jesus. And I was utterly amazed at the sight of her.
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