Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 125:3

"For the sceptre of wickedness shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; That the righteous put not forth their hands unto iniquity." — Psalms 125:3 (ASV)

Rod. —The imagery of this unusually long verse is peculiar. The “rod of the wicked,” or “of wickedness,” is the heathen sceptre, and the righteous are the Israelites who hold fast to the religion of their fathers. This sceptre now rests—a word expressing the presence of tyranny—upon the Holy Land; but this will not continue. God will not allow the tyranny to last, so that the righteous will not be seduced or forced into complicity in practices which religion unites with patriotism to condemn.