Psalms 94:9

"Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?"

Key Reflection

This verse challenges those who are spiritually blind and ignorant to recognize their foolishness and begs them to seek wisdom. It urges a shift from a brutish, unthinking state to one of understanding and insight, reflecting God's desire for His people to comprehend His ways and live wisely.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

He that planted the ear -He that made the ear. The word here used in the original is a participle. “Shall not he planting the ear;” that is, the “planter” of the ear. The idea seems to have been taken from the act of making a “hole” in the ground when we set out a plant - as if, in like manner, a “hole” had been made in the side of the head to insert the ear. Shall he not hear? -He could not have created the faculty of hearing, without possessing it himself. Or, it is reasonable to suppose that he who has made man capable of hearing, must be able to hear himself. We have nothing in our nature which is not possessed in an infinitely higher measure by God.

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