They crush Your people, O LORD; they oppress Your heritage.
Parallel translations
- WEB They break your people in pieces, Yahweh, and afflict your heritage.
- KJV They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.
- NKJV They break in pieces Your people, O Lord, And afflict Your heritage.
- NASB They crush Your people, Lord, And afflict Your inheritance.
- NLT They crush your people, Lord, hurting those you claim as your own.
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Quick answer
The wicked crush God's people and afflict His heritage. Their evil is directed against those God calls His own.
Overview
The oppression here strikes at the covenant people, God's special inheritance. To harm them is to provoke the God who claims them as His own possession. This concern for His afflicted people is fulfilled in Christ, who so identifies with His own that to persecute them is to persecute Him (Acts 9:4; Zechariah 2:8).
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Cross-references · 18
- Isa 3:15Why do you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
- Ps 79:2–3They 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.
- Rev 11:3And I will empower my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”
- Mic 3:2–3You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones.
- Ps 74:8They said in their hearts, “We will crush them completely.” They burned down every place where God met us in the land.
- Rev 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.
- Jer 51:20–23“You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin.
- Exod 2:23–24After 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.
- Ps 7:2or they will shred my soul like a lion and tear me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
- Jer 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.”
- Ps 74:19–20Do not deliver the soul of Your dove to beasts; do not forget the lives of Your afflicted forever.
- Jer 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,
- Ps 44:22Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
- Ps 79:7for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland.
- Jer 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.
- Ps 129:2–3many a time they have persecuted me from my youth, but they have not prevailed against me.
- Ps 14:4Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.
- Isa 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.
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