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Commentaries and Other Bible Study Helps - Prayer Tents - Prayer Tents
94:16-23 The Lord Will Rise Up on Behalf of His Beloved. The song finishes with confidence: the Lord will keep his faithful ones firm in their faith (v. 18), will protect them (v. 22), and will bring the unfaithful into the judgment they deserve (v. 23).
94:16 Who rises up for me? The speaker is the person singing (the same as "my," "I," and "me" referred to in vv. 17-19, 22); the answer is, "God does."
94:19 The specific cares are those expressed in the psalm, e.g., v. 3. The consolations are the assurances that God knows (vv. 9-11), that he has shown his support already (vv. 17-18), and that he will surely judge (v. 23).
94:20-21 wicked rulers. The ungodly here have power, and they use it to frame injustice and to condemn the innocent to death (which God hates; Ex. 23:7). Cf. Ps. 94:5-6. This verse denies that such rulers could possibly be allied with God, under his favor.
94:23 bring back on them. It is common to expect the iniquity of the unfaithful to recoil upon their own heads; cf. 7:15; 57:6; Prov. 26:27.
