The Nugget:
Psalm 94:18 If I say, “My foot is slipping,”
your loyal love, O LORD, supports me.
Psalm 94:19 When worries threaten to overwhelm me,
your soothing touch makes me happy.
Psalm 94:20 Cruel rulers are not your allies,
those who make oppressive laws.
Psalm 94:21 They conspire against the blameless,
and condemn to death the innocent.
Psalm 94:22 But the LORD will protect me,
and my God will shelter me.
Psalm 94:23 He will pay them back for their sin.
He will destroy them because of their evil;
the LORD our God will destroy them. (NET Bible)Psalm 94:20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with You, devising mischief for a statute? (LITV)
Psalm 94:20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law? (KJV)
My Comment:
I came upon Psalm 94:20 in my studies this week. I was studying the account of Naboth and his vineyard. King Ahab desired the vineyard for himself, and asked Naboth to sell it to him or trade it for an even more extensive vineyard.
Naboth refused.
Naboth was in the right. God’s Law did not permit anyone to sell or trade away their land, their family inheritance (Leviticus 25:23; Numbers 36:7; Ezekiel 46:18).
King Ahab became despondent. His wife Jezebel enters into the matter and arranges for Naboth to be killed as a result of false accusation.
God avenged Naboth most spectacularly. You will find the story recorded in 1 Kings chapter 21 for starters.
We have laws in our own country that are most unjust. Eminent domain. Asset forfeiture. And no doubt a host of others. A particularly egregious example of the law run amuck took place December 30, 2014, where 18 police agencies descended upon a rural farmhouse in New York and, using their new-fangled and I think altogether unnecessary military hardware that many police agencies are being outfitted with these days, literally drove through the home leaving it unsafe for further habitation, to restrict the movements, the police said, of the man they were after for a DUI warrant issued last August 26, for which the man failed to show up in court. Does it take four months to service a DUI warrant? Does it require a SWAT team to do it? Now the wife and young children are homeless, and the husband is dead of a self-inflicted gun shot wound. The police stormed the residence for 3 days. I wonder how much overtime they got for that? I do not at all support the man who was driving under the influence. But neither do I support such wicked procedures by police agencies to enforce the law. They could have stationed one unmarked car positioned to see the man leave his home on whatever normal business he might have, and then called a marked car to come to peacefully detain him. This is the same error committed at Waco with the terrible loss of life when innocent women and children were consumed by the fire set off by government forces when Janet Reno said she was responsible, and that “The buck stops with her.” Too bad whoever it was in this Danby, NY incident who authorized this procedure, and all those who participated in it, can’t be required or forced to build a new house to replace the home they destroyed so the mother and her children could have a decent place of their own to live. And it ought to be tax free for life for that family. But I did read where a church–Danby Federated Church under Pastor Ed Enstine–in the local town is accepting donations to help the family. You can be sure the Lord is most displeased with law enforcement shenanigans of this kind, and will Himself avenge the mother and children for what was wrongly done to them.
If more people in this country were Bible-believing, Bible practicing Christians, such injustices would not take place by law enforcement, and the now dead father in this family would have been reached with the Gospel of Christ, and the Lord would have delivered him from alcoholism.
LINK: http://www.policestateusa.com/2015/cady-raid/
For those who desire to DIG DEEPER into this subject:
(1) Consult the cross references given in Nelson’s Cross Reference Guide to the Bible on pages 608-609 for Psalm 94:20.
(2) Consult the cross references given in The New Treasury of Scripture Knowledge on page 654 or in Logos 5 or 6 Bible software for Psalm 94:20.
(3) Consult the cross references given in the original Treasury of Scripture Knowledge on page 390 for Psalm 94:20.
(3) Most people today do not have access to those three resources, so I have posted cross references for this passage as I have developed them even more completely for your study as given below:
Psalm 94:20. throne of iniquity. Heb. havvah, cupidity. FS121C1D, Ex 6:6. Iniquity put by the Figure Metonymy (of Cause) for the injustice produced by desire for gain. ver. Ps 94:3-6. %Ps 47:8. *Ps 52:1, 2. 56:7. *Ps 82:1, 2. 140:8. *1 S 22:17-19. 1 K 21:2, 3. Ec 3:16. +*Ec 5:8. Je 22:30. Ezk 33:26. Da 11:36-39. *Am 6:3. Jn 19:13. fellowship. So as to divide men’s allegiance with Thee (Kay). Ge 49:6. 2 Ch 6:14-16. +*2 Ch 19:2. +*Ps 1:1. +*Ps 5:4. +**Ps 119:63. *Is 1:11-20. *Je 7:4-11. Jn 18:28. **2 Cor 6:14-16. **Ep 5:11. *1 J 1:5, 6. frameth. or, forgeth. Al-choq; as if they hammered out their systematic oppression on the anvil of Law;—or, as if Law were the cast or mold, by which they gave shape to their iniquitous policy (Kay). Dt 24:17. +*1 K 21:9, 12. Mt 26:3, 59. +*2 Th 1:6. mischief. Ps 58:2. Ex 1:17. +*1 K 12:32. *Est 3:6-12. *Is 10:1. *Da 3:4-7. *Da 6:7-9. Am 6:12. Mic 6:16. +**Jn 7:24. 8:15. *Jn 9:22. *Jn 11:57. Ac 16:37. 22:3. 26:12. *Re 13:15-17. by a law. Is 10:1, 2. Da 2:13. 3:10. 6:15. +*Hab 1:4. *Ac 4:17, 18. Re 13:11-18.