PS 94 1 " O LORD, the God who avenges, O God who avenges, shine forth."When man sinned, he promptly throws the whole earth into the continuous process of dreadful death. Everything was cursed by God. The desperate hope for completed restoration was reluctantly abandoned.But when God reestablishes His mighty kingdom, we are brought back to that radical vision of restoration. This beatific vision defines both understandable and mysterious desires. Because the created earth is plunged desperately into violent rebellion and pervasive corruption everyone is guilty of naturally producing destruction and death.
The exclusive power that is preventing man from destroying himself and the earth is God's effective power. The sole way that God can sufficiently restore the original freedom and moral goodness is through judicial punishment. The Psalmist is saying only God comprehends the way to restore the utmost freedom because God is the judge. No man seeks judgment without first desiring it. God is graciously allowing the man what he naturally desires. He is not responsible for their personal judgement nor is His, saints. We are worthy of a suitable reward because we earnestly want deliverance at the reasonable expense of divine justice. The quickest way to satisfactorily resolve this social problem is for God to generously provide us with what we sincerely desire. For Him to justly give the wicked what they naturally desire. That's when all things are unified.
2 " Rise up, O Judge of the earth; pay back to the proud what they deserve,"The Psalmist is justly saying that the sooner the Lord takes vengeance the fewer innocent people will be sorely hurt. The proud befall those people who do not enjoy God in their thoughts, live as if God does not exist. In the Psalms, a person who does not acknowledge God is spreading a destructive disease or the nervous dread of the curse.
3" How long will the wicked, O LORD, how long will the wicked be jubilant?"What inevitably happens when the wicked are happy? They are being used by powerful men to establish a terrible curse. This heathen world has a political power structure in which men become gods as they establish their own authority and accumulate many personal followers.
4" They pour out arrogant words; all the evildoers are full of boasting."God has established His authority by His words. To speak in a way to overturn His word, or to redefine His word is the same thing as seizing a kingdom by violence. "Boasting" is clearly establishing authority by abusing someone else. 5 "They crush your people, O LORD; they oppress your inheritance."They torture Gods people...137 2 There on the poplars we hung our harps,3 for there our captors asked us for songs, our tormentors demanded songs of joy; they said, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!" They make war with Israel and import them into captivity. They ruthlessly sacrifice the helpless babies of Israel on the altar.8 O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us-- 9 he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.
6 "They slay the widow and the alien; they murder the fatherless. " God has established His law to defend the helpless and the powerless from being abused. When men unanimously overturn God's law, they obtain power by destroying the powerless.
7 They say, "The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob pays no heed." When the wicked rule they spread hopelessness. This is the agitated voice of the wicked curse in the wounded hearts of Gods concerned people. 22 8 "He trusts in the LORD; let the LORD rescue him. Let him deliver him, since he delights in him." This is the wicked curse of faithlessness.
9 "Does he who implanted the ear not hear? Does he who formed the eye not see?
10 Does he who disciplines nations not punish? Does he who teaches man lack knowledge?
11 The LORD knows the thoughts of man; he knows that they are futile." But because God is the creator then He controls the outcome. So God has established His way through pronouncing a curse on those who spread the wicked curse of faithlessness. The Lord knows or He creates futility through giving the wicked what they are thinking. We wish the full effect of the curse of the law because it is the only method by which power is transferred.
12" Blessed is the man you discipline, O LORD, the man you teach from your law;
13 you grant him relief from days of trouble, till a pit is dug for the wicked.
14 For the LORD will not reject his people; he will never forsake his inheritance.
15 Judgment will again be founded on righteousness, and all the upright in heart will follow it."Man in a collective sense. God disciplines Israel by punishing the waywardness of the wicked but using that punishment to double the blessing of His saints. He is saying God has made the kingdom flourish in His people by giving them all they need in salvation. They naturally follow His success." will follow it." The basis of this new kingdom relationship is God's faithfulness in His covenants. "he will never forsake his inheritance." In other words to be consistent. God disciplines the whole nation to bless the saints. 13" you grant him relief from days of trouble, till a pit is dug for the wicked."