They break your people in pieces, Yahweh, and afflict your heritage.
Parallel translations
- KJV They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.
- BSB They crush Your people, O LORD; they oppress Your 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).
Cross-references & the web
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- Isa 3:15What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
- Ps 79:2–3They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth.
- Rev 11:3I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”
- Mic 3:2–3You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;
- Ps 74:8They said in their heart, “We will crush them completely.” They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.
- Rev 17:6I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.
- Jer 51:20–23“You are my battle ax and weapons of war. With you I will break the nations into pieces. With you I will destroy kingdoms.
- Exod 2:23–24In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.
- Ps 7:2lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.
- Jer 22:17But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”
- Ps 74:19–20Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.
- Jer 50:11“Because you are glad, because you rejoice, O you who plunder my heritage, because you are wanton as a heifer that treads out the grain, and neigh as strong horses;
- Ps 44:22Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.
- Ps 79:7For they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland.
- Jer 51:34“Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me. He has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has, like a monster, swallowed me up. He has filled his mouth with my delicacies. He has cast me out.
- Ps 129:2–3many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.
- Ps 14:4Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh?
- Isa 52:5“Now therefore, what do I do here,” says Yahweh, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them mock,” says Yahweh, “and my name is blasphemed continually all day long.
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