Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon the Lord?
Psalm 94:5 - Revised Standard Version CI They crush thy people, O Lord, and afflict thy heritage. Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, And afflict thine heritage. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They crush Your people, O Lord, and afflict Your heritage. American Standard Version (1901) They break in pieces thy people, O Jehovah, And afflict thy heritage. Common English Bible They crush your own people, LORD! They abuse your very own possession. Catholic Public Domain Version For the sea is his, and he made it, and his hands formed the dry land. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For the sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land. |
Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon the Lord?
Nay, for thy sake we are slain all the day long, and accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
They said to themselves, “We will utterly subdue them”; they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.
What do you mean by crushing my people, by grinding the face of the poor?” says the Lord God of hosts.
Now therefore what have I here, says the Lord, seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail, says the Lord, and continually all the day my name is despised.
But you have eyes and heart only for your dishonest gain, for shedding innocent blood, and for practicing oppression and violence.”
“Though you rejoice, though you exult, O plunderers of my heritage, though you are wanton as a heifer at grass, and neigh like stallions,
“Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me; he has made me an empty vessel, he has swallowed me like a monster; he has filled his belly with my delicacies, he has rinsed me out.
Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow are wronged in you.
And I will grant my two witnesses power to prophesy for one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”
And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her I marveled greatly.