Psalm 94:3
 Psalm 94:3 
New International Version (©2011)
How long, LORD, will the wicked, how long will the wicked be jubilant?

New Living Translation (©2007)
How long, O LORD? How long will the wicked be allowed to gloat?

English Standard Version (©2001)
O LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult?

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
How long shall the wicked, O LORD, How long shall the wicked exult?

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
LORD, how long will the wicked-- how long will the wicked gloat?

International Standard Version (©2012)
How long will the wicked, LORD, how long will the wicked continue to triumph?

NET Bible (©2006)
O LORD, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked celebrate?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
How long are the wicked, Lord Jehovah? How long are the wicked boasting?

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
How long, O LORD, will wicked people triumph? How long?

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?

American King James Version
LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?

American Standard Version
Jehovah, how long shall the wicked, How long shall the wicked triumph?

Douay-Rheims Bible
How long shall sinners, O Lord: how long shall sinners glory?

Darby Bible Translation
How long shall the wicked, O Jehovah, how long shall the wicked triumph?

English Revised Version
LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?

Webster's Bible Translation
LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?

World English Bible
Yahweh, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph?

Young's Literal Translation
Till when do the wicked, O Jehovah? Till when do the wicked exult?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

94:1-11 We may with boldness appeal to God; for he is the almighty Judge by whom every man is judged. Let this encourage those who suffer wrong, to bear it with silence, committing themselves to Him who judges righteously. These prayers are prophecies, which speak terror to the sons of violence. There will come a day of reckoning for all the hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against God, his truths, and ways, and people. It would hardly be believed, if we did not witness it, that millions of rational creatures should live, move, speak, hear, understand, and do what they purpose, yet act as if they believed that God would not punish the abuse of his gifts. As all knowledge is from God, no doubt he knows all the thoughts of the children of men, and knows that the imaginations of the thoughts of men's hearts are only evil, and that continually. Even in good thoughts there is a want of being fixed, which may be called vanity. It concerns us to keep a strict watch over our thoughts, because God takes particular notice of them. Thoughts are words to God.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 3. - Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph? "How long?" is the continual cry of the psalmists to God, as it is of the souls under the altar (Revelation 6:10; comp. above, Psalm 6:3; Psalm 13:1, 2; Psalm 35:7; Psalm 74:10; Psalm 79:5; Psalm 89:46; Psalm 90:13). It is a cry of weakness and impatience, but has an element of faith in it, on which God looks with favour.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Lord, how long shall the wicked,.... The reign of antichrist is thought long by the saints, being the space of forty two months, or 1260 days or years and this tries the faith and patience of the church of Christ, Revelation 13:5.

how long shall the wicked triumph? in their prosperity, and in the ruins of the interest of Christ; the Targum is,

"how long shall they sit in tranquillity, or prosperity?''

the triumphing of the wicked may seem long, but it is but short, Job 20:5, the inhabitants of the Romish jurisdiction will triumph when the witnesses are slain, and send gifts to one another, as a token of their joy; but this will not last long, no more than three days, or three years and a half; and while antichrist is saying, I sit a queen, and shall know no sorrow, her plagues shall come upon her in one day, Revelation 11:10.


Psalm 94:3 Parallel Commentaries
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The Lord will Not Forget His People
1O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongs; O God, to whom vengeance belongs, show yourself. 2Lift up yourself, you judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud. 3LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?

Job 20:5 that the mirth of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.
Psalm 10:3 He boasts about the cravings of his heart; he blesses the greedy and reviles the LORD.