{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/jfb/psa058.htm","path":"bib/cmt/jfb/psa058.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/jfb/psa058.htm","text":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]\nO congregation--literally, \"Oh, dumb\"; the word used is never translated \"congregation.\" \"Are ye dumb? ye should speak righteousness,\" may be the translation. In any case, the writer remonstrates with them, perhaps a council, who were assembled to try his cause, and bound to give a right decision.\nThis they did not design; but\nweigh . . . violence--or give decisions of violence. Weigh is a figure to express the acts of judges.\nin the earth--publicly.\ndescribe the wicked generally, who sin naturally, easily, malignantly, and stubbornly.\nstoppeth her--literally, \"his.\"\near--that is, the wicked man (the singular used collectively), who thus becomes like the deaf adder which has no ear.\nHe prays for their destruction, under the figure of ravenous beasts (Psa 3:7; Psa 7:2).\nwhich run continually--literally, \"they shall go to themselves,\" utterly depart, as rapid mountain torrents.\nhe bendeth . . . his arrows--prepares it. The term for preparing a bow applied to arrows (Psa 64:3).\nlet them . . . pieces--literally, \"as if they cut themselves off\"--that is, become blunted and of no avail.\nOther figures of this utter ruin; the last denoting rapidity. In a shorter time than pots feel the heat of thorns on fire--\nhe shall take them away as with a whirlwind--literally, \"blow him (them) away.\"\nboth living . . . wrath--literally, \"as the living\" or fresh as the heated or burning--that is, thorns--all easily blown away, so easily and quickly the wicked. The figure of the \"snail\" perhaps alludes to its loss of saliva when moving. Though obscure in its clauses, the general sense of the passage is clear.\nwash . . . wicked--denoting great slaughter. The joy of triumph over the destruction of the wicked is because they are God's enemies, and their overthrow shows that He reigneth (compare Psa 52:5-7; Psa 54:7). In this assurance let heaven and earth rejoice (Psa 96:10; Psa 97:1, &c.).","title":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments: Psalms: Psalms Chapter 58","type":"page"}