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If the foundations are destroyed, What can the righteous do?
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Crumbling Foundations
Commentators unanimously interpret "the foundations" as a metaphor for the fundamental principles of justice, law, and truth that support a stable society. The verse describes a state of social and moral collapse where the very structures the righteous depend on have been dismantled, leading to the desperate question that follows.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
If the foundations be destroyed—These are still to be regarded as the words of the psalmist’s advisers, or as an argument why…
19th Century
Anglican
The foundations. This word refers to the principles of morality, which are the foundation of society. Symmachus and Jerome transla…
16th Century
Protestant
Truly, the foundations are destroyed. Some translate the word השתות, hashathoth, as nets, a meaning in which Scripture o…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
If the foundations be destroyed Or, "for the foundations are destroyed" F19; all things are out of order …
Those who truly fear God and serve him are welcome to put their trust in him. The psalmist, before he gives an account of his temptation to distrus…
