Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 94:3
LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?
3 7. How long will Jehovah tolerate the tyrannies of these proud blasphemers?
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Lord, how long shall the wicked … – As if there were to be no end to their exaltation; their joy; their success. How long would God allow this? How long would he sit by and see it done? Was he disposed to let them go on forever? Would he never interpose, and arrest them in their career? How often do we wonder that God does not interpose! How often does it seem inexplicable that a Being of almighty power and infinite goodness does not interfere with respect to the wickedness, the oppression, the slavery, the wrong, the cruelty, the fraud, the violence of the world – and put an end to it! Nay, how entirely are we overwhelmed at the thought that he does not put an end to iniquity in the universe altogether; that he never will thus interpose, and put an end to sin and sorrow! Such things are too high for us now; perhaps will be always so. Things on earth are not as we should suppose they would be; and we can only pause and adore where we cannot comprehend!
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 3. How long shall the wicked triumph?] The wicked are often in prosperity; and this only shows us of how little worth riches are in the sight of God, when he bestows them on the most contemptible of mortals. But their time and prosperity have their bounds.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
3, 4. In an earnestexpostulation he expresses his desire that the insolent triumph ofthe wicked may be ended.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Lord, how long shall the wicked,…. The reign of antichrist is thought long by the saints, being the space of forty two months, or 1260 days or years and this tries the faith and patience of the church of Christ, Re 13:5
how long shall the wicked triumph? in their prosperity, and in the ruins of the interest of Christ; the Targum is,
“how long shall they sit in tranquillity, or prosperity?”
the triumphing of the wicked may seem long, but it is but short,
Job 20:5, the inhabitants of the Romish jurisdiction will triumph when the witnesses are slain, and send gifts to one another, as a token of their joy; but this will not last long, no more than three days, or three years and a half; and while antichrist is saying, I sit a queen, and shall know no sorrow, her plagues shall come upon her in one day,
Re 11:10.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
3 O Jehovah! how long shall the wicked? The Psalmist justifies himself in this verse for the fervent importunity which he showed in prayer. There was need of immediate help, when the wicked had proceeded to such an extent of audacity. The necessity of our case may justly embolden us in our requests, which must be all the more readily heard as they are reasonable; and here the Psalmist insists that his complaints were not without cause, nor originated in trifling reasons, but were extorted by injuries of the most flagrant description. Notice is taken of the length of time during which their persecutions had lasted, as an aggravating circumstance. They had become hardened under the long-continued forbearance of God, and had in consequence contracted a shamelessness, as well as obstinacy of spirit, imagining that he looked upon their wickedness with an eye of favor. The term how long twice repeated, implies the extent of impunity which had been granted, that it was not as if they had newly started upon their career, but that they had been tolerated for a length of time, and had become outrageously flagitious. It was thus that in former times wicked men tyrannized to such a degree over the Church, while yet God did not interfere to apply a remedy; and we need not be surprised that he should subject her now to protracted persecutions, nor should we conclude that, because he does not immediately proceed to cure existing evils, he has utterly forsaken her. The term triumph denotes that fullness of audacious and boasting exultation which the wicked feel when they are intoxicated with continued prosperity, and conceive that they may indulge in every excess without restraint.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
3. How long Twice uttered for emphasis, implying that the delays of justice are mysterious.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Psa 94:3 LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?
Ver. 3. Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long? ] Bis, quia de die in diem gloriantur, saith Aben Ezra. Twice he saith it, because the wicked boast day after day, with such insolence and outrage, as if they were above control.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
how long. Note the Figure of speech Anaphora.
wicked = lawless ones. Hebrew. rasha App-44. Not the same word as in Psa 94:23.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Lord: Psa 43:2, Psa 73:8, Psa 74:9, Psa 74:10, Psa 79:5, Psa 80:4, Psa 89:46, Jer 12:1, Jer 12:2, Jer 47:6, Rev 6:10
the wicked: Est 5:11, Est 5:12, Est 6:6-10, Est 7:6, Est 7:10, Job 20:5, Act 12:22, Act 12:23
Reciprocal: Deu 24:17 – pervert Job 7:19 – How long Psa 13:1 – How Psa 25:2 – let not Psa 35:17 – how Psa 94:15 – But Isa 6:11 – Lord Lam 5:20 – dost Hab 1:2 – how Hab 1:4 – for Hab 2:6 – how
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
94:3 LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked {c} triumph?
(c) That is, brag of their cruelty and oppression, or esteem themselves above all others.