Albert Barnes Commentary


Albert Barnes Commentary
"Jehovah, how long shall the wicked, How long shall the wicked triumph?" — Psalms 94:3 (ASV)
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! In fact, 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 always be so. Things on earth are not as we should suppose they would be; and we can only pause and adore where we cannot comprehend!