This Psalm, accordingly, resumes the first of those subjects more largely. The people, waiting for their Messiah or King, call on Him to judge the enemy, to still the floods (Psa. 92:3) that are lifting up their voice. And all Scripture joins to tell, that the millennial kingdom of Christ will not be brought in, till this judgment is executed on the enemies of Israel.
But in the course of this Psalm, the afflicted Remnant greatly comfort themselves in God, assured that He will work for them. They know that in the midst of these floods and waves, the Lord is their Rock which nothing can move.
The judgment here described is the day of the Lord’s vengeance—the year of recompence for the controversy of Zion—the day of breaking up confederacies—the day of the Lord that is to be upon everything lifted up—the day of “revenges upon the enemy” (Deut. 32:41-42). The floods that lift up their waves will then be rebuked by the Lord (Isa. 17:12-13).
But judgment is to “return unto righteousness” (Psa. 94:15). The judgment is to lead to the exaltation of righteousness in the earth, when power will be on the side of righteousness, as in the kingdom.
The infidel character of the faction is strikingly challenged and rebuked by the righteous Israel (Psa. 94:7-10). The Apostle Peter addresses the same unbelief, but more in the way of a teacher of God’s truth (2 Peter 3).