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 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 They crush your people, O Lord, and afflict your heritage. More versionsKing 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?
Because of you we are being killed all day long and accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
or like a lion they will tear me apart; they will drag me away, with no one to rescue.
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 am I doing here, says the Lord, seeing that my people are taken away without cause? Their rulers howl, says the Lord, and continually, all day long, my name is despised.
But your eyes and heart are only on 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 frisk about like a heifer on the grass and neigh like stallions,
“King Nebuchadrezzar 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 spewed me out.
Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the alien residing within you suffers extortion; the orphan and the widow are wronged in you.
And I will grant my two witnesses authority to prophesy for one thousand two hundred sixty days, wearing sackcloth.”
And I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the witnesses to Jesus. When I saw her, I was greatly amazed.