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You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.
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The "Fiery Oven" of Judgment
Commentators explain that the image of a "fiery oven" signifies complete and terrifying destruction for God's enemies. Whether being cast into a furnace or, as one scholar suggests, becoming a furnace unto themselves, the picture is one of total consumption by divine wrath. This severe imagery, likened to the destruction of Sodom, underscores the seriousness of opposing God and His anointed King.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
You shall make them as a fiery oven in the time of your anger - You shall consume or destroy them, as if they were burned in a heated oven…
19th Century
Anglican
You shall make ... — As it stands, the figure is very obscure. Lamentations 5:10 is not analogous. Here the fire, and n…
Baptist
The LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them. Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from…
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16th Century
Protestant
Thou shalt put them as it were into a furnace of fire. The Psalmist here describes a dreadful kind of vengeance, from which we gather that…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven Some think the allusion is to David's causing the Ammonites to pass through the…
The psalmist teaches us to look forward with faith, hope, and prayer to what God would do further. The success with which God blessed David was a t…
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13th Century
Catholic
In the preceding psalm, a petition was made for the king’s exaltation; here, it is as though the psalmist, having been heard, now announc…
