Psalm 94 An Angry God
1. God's Revelation -
His Prerogative - 1 O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth;
His Power - O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself.
His Position - 2 Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth:
His Purpose - render a reward to the proud.
2. God's Reservation - His Patience with -
Their Ways - 3 Lord, how long shall the wicked, .... triumph?
Their Words - 4 How long shall they utter and speak hard things?
and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
Their Works -
They Decimate - 5 They break in pieces
They Discriminate - 5 They break in pieces, thy people, O Lord,
They Desecrate - and afflict thine heritage.
Their Wickedness - They Have -
No Fear - 6 They slay the widow
No Favour - and the stranger,
No Feeling - and murder the fatherless.
Their Willfulness -
Their Confession - 7 Yet they say,
Their Confusion - The Lord shall not see,
Their Conclusion - neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.
3. God's Remonstration - God Calls -
For Wisdom - 8 Understand, ye brutish among the people: ye fools, when will ye be wise?
For Worship - 9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear?
he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
For Willingness - 10 He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct?
he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?
For Watchfulness - 11 The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
4. God's Resolution -
To Correct Man - 12 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord,
and teachest him out of thy law;
To Protect Him - 13 that thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.
To Connect Him - 14 For the Lord will not cast off his people,
neither will he forsake his inheritance.
To Direct Him - 15 But judgment shall return unto righteousness:
and all the upright in heart shall follow it.
To Perfect Him - 16 Who will rise up for me against the evildoers?
or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
5. God's Regulation - His -
Help - 17 Unless the Lord had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.
Hold - 18 When I said My foot slippeth; thy mercy O Lord, held me up
Hope - 19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.
6. God's Retribution - Their -
Separation - 20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee,
which frameth mischief by a law?
Syndication - 21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous,
and condemn the innocent blood.
Supervision - 22 But the Lord is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge.
Subjugation - 23 And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity,
It's Sovereign - 23 And he -
It's Sure - 23 shall
It's Solemn - bring upon them (Don't want it)
It's Sound - their own iniquity
It's Sudden - and shall cut them off in their own wickedness;
It's Set - yea, the Lord our God shall cut them off.
2 Thess 1:7 and to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, 8 in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: 9 who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
