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For the scepter of wickedness won`t remain over the allotment of the righteous; So that the righteous won`t put forth their hands to iniquity.
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God Sets a Time Limit
Commentators unanimously agree that while the righteous may suffer under the "rod of the wicked" (oppression, persecution, or injustice), this hardship is temporary. The verse promises that this wicked dominion will not "rest" or permanently remain. God sovereignly places a limit on the duration and intensity of such trials, offering hope that relief will come.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For the rod of the wicked—Margin, as in Hebrew, “wickedness.” The word “rod”—the staff, the scepter, the instrument of inflicting p…
19th Century
Anglican
Rod. —The imagery of this unusually long verse is peculiar. The “rod of the wicked,” or “of wickedness,” is the heathen sceptr…
Baptist
Those who trust in the LORD will be like Mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abides forever. As the mountains are around Jerusalem, so the…
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16th Century
Protestant
For the scepter of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the just. This is, so to speak, a correction of the preceding sentence. The P…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous
Which, accor…
All those minds that are fixed on God will be truly steadfast. They will be like Mount Zion, as firm as it is—a mountain supported by providence, a…
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