Psalms 94:2

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Rise up, O judge of the earth! Pay back the proud!

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הִ֭נָּשֵׂא שֹׁפֵ֣ט הָאָ֑רֶץ הָשֵׁ֥ב גְּ֝מ֗וּל עַל־גֵּאִֽים

Transliteration

hinnāśēʾ šōpēṭ the-ʾāreṣ hāšēb gəmûl upon-gēʾîm

Grammar Details

• *hinnāśēʾ*: verb, niphal, imperative, masculine, singular - lift yourself up/rise up
• *šōpēṭ*: participle, qal, masculine, singular, construct - judge of
• *hā-ʾāreṣ*: definite article + noun, feminine, singular - the earth/land
• *hāšēb*: verb, hiphil, imperative, masculine, singular - return/restore/repay
• *gəmûl*: noun, masculine, singular - recompense/reward/retribution
• *ʿal-gēʾîm*: preposition + noun, masculine, plural - upon/against proud ones

Word Meanings

• *hinnāśēʾ*: lift yourself up/rise up/be exalted
• *šōpēṭ*: judge/one who judges
• *ʾāreṣ*: earth/land/ground
• *gəmûl*: recompense/reward/retribution
• *gēʾîm*: proud ones/arrogant ones/haughty ones

Referenced Verses

• Ps 7:6 : 6 Stand up angrily, LORD! Rise up with raging fury against my enemies! Wake up for my sake and execute the judgment you have decreed for them!
• Ps 31:23 : 23 Love the LORD, all you faithful followers of his! The LORD protects those who have integrity, but he pays back in full the one who acts arrogantly.
• Gen 18:25 : 25 Far be it from you to do such a thing– to kill the godly with the wicked, treating the godly and the wicked alike! Far be it from you! Will not the judge of the whole earth do what is right?”
• Job 40:11-12 : 11 Scatter abroad the abundance of your anger. Look at every proud man and bring him low; 12 Look at every proud man and abase him; crush the wicked on the spot!
• Ps 50:6 : 6 The heavens declare his fairness, for God is judge.(Selah)
• Ps 68:1 : 1 For the music director; by David, a psalm, a song. God springs into action! His enemies scatter; his adversaries run from him.
• Ps 74:22 : 22 Rise up, O God! Defend your honor! Remember how fools insult you all day long!
• Isa 2:11-12 : 11 Proud men will be brought low, arrogant men will be humiliated; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day. 12 Indeed, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has planned a day of judgment, for all the high and mighty, for all who are proud– they will be humiliated;
• Isa 2:17 : 17 Proud men will be humiliated, arrogant men will be brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.
• Isa 10:12 : 12 But when the Lord finishes judging Mount Zion and Jerusalem, then I will punish the king of Assyria for what he has proudly planned and for the arrogant attitude he displays.
• Isa 37:23 : 23 Whom have you taunted and hurled insults at? At whom have you shouted and looked so arrogantly? At the Holy One of Israel!
• Isa 37:29 : 29 Because you rage against me and the uproar you create has reached my ears, I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle between your lips, and I will lead you back the way you came.”
• Isa 37:36-38 : 36 The LORD’s angel went out and killed 185,000 troops in the Assyrian camp. When they got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses! 37 So King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and went on his way. He went home and stayed in Nineveh. 38 One day, as he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword. They ran away to the land of Ararat; his son Esarhaddon replaced him as king.
• Jer 50:31-32 : 31 “Listen! I am opposed to you, you proud city,” says the Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies.“Indeed, your day of reckoning has come, the time when I will punish you. 32 You will stumble and fall, you proud city; no one will help you get up. I will set fire to your towns; it will burn up everything that surrounds you.”
• Dan 4:37 : 37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all his deeds are right and his ways are just. He is able to bring down those who live in pride.
• Dan 5:22-24 : 22 “But you, his son Belshazzar, have not humbled yourself, although you knew all this. 23 Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. You brought before you the vessels from his temple, and you and your nobles, together with your wives and concubines, drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone– gods that cannot see or hear or comprehend! But you have not glorified the God who has in his control your very breath and all your ways! 24 Therefore the palm of a hand was sent from him, and this writing was inscribed.
• Mic 5:9 : 9 Lift your hand triumphantly against your adversaries; may all your enemies be destroyed!
• John 5:22-23 : 22 Furthermore, the Father does not judge anyone, but has assigned all judgment to the Son, 23 so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.
• 2 Cor 5:10 : 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be paid back according to what he has done while in the body, whether good or evil.
• 1 Pet 5:5 : 5 In the same way, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.
• Rev 18:6-8 : 6 Repay her the same way she repaid others; pay her back double corresponding to her deeds. In the cup she mixed, mix double the amount for her. 7 As much as she exalted herself and lived in sensual luxury, to this extent give her torment and grief because she said to herself,‘I rule as queen and am no widow; I will never experience grief!’ 8 For this reason, she will experience her plagues in a single day: disease, mourning, and famine, and she will be burned down with fire, because the Lord God who judges her is powerful!”