In Psalms, chapter ninety-four, verses one through twenty-three, believers should not be so grieved with the injustice, brutality, and wickedness that they pray for God to stop the triumph of evil and avenge the wrong. Jesus states that His elect should “cry day and night” that God “will avenge them speedily,” as in Luke eighteen, verses seven to eight, and Revelation six, verse ten. Commitment to justice and sympathy for those treated wrongfully should cause one to pray for the return of Christ that He might rule the earth in righteousness, as in Matthew six, verse ten.
Those in heaven pray that the wicked who have rejected God and killed His followers will receive divine justice. The prayer is not for personal or individual vengeance. Instead, it comes out of a concern for God’s righteous rule on the earth to bring evil to justice and the suffering of His people to an end.
The theme under An Appeal for God to Avenge begins by repeating the title and the request to show them. The psalmist asks for a demonstration from God to deliver the discipline due to the wicked. These ungodly people continue to flaunt themselves with their wrongdoing and take advantage of those who are the opposite. “They slay the widow and the stranger and murder the fatherless, as in Psalms ninety-four, verse seven. However, the Lord is the judge.
However, verses eight through eleven give the response. “Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise? He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? He that formed the eye, shall he not see? He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? He that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?