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God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, And root you out of the land of the living. Selah.
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The Certainty of Judgment
Commentators highlight the intense and varied language used to describe God's judgment. The wicked person is not just destroyed, but torn down like a building, snatched away like a hot coal, and completely uprooted like a tree from the earth. This pile of metaphors emphasizes the absolute, total, and inescapable nature of God's final justice against evil.
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Psalms
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18th Century
Presbyterian
God shall likewise destroy thee for ever - Margin, “beat thee down.” The Hebrew word means “to tear, to break down, to destroy” ([R…
19th Century
Anglican
Destroy. —Better, tear down, as if of a building.
Take you away. —Better, lay hold of you.
16th Century
Protestant
God shall likewise destroy thee for ever. From these words it becomes even more evident that his purpose in dwelling on the aggravated gui…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
God shall likewise destroy you for ever As a just retaliation for the mischief done to others; or, "therefore God sh…
Those who glory in sin, glory in their shame. The patience and forbearance of God are abused by sinners, resulting in the hardening of their hearts…
13th Century
Catholic
1. Here begins the second set of fifty psalms. As was said at the beginning of the book, the first fifty relate to penitents, and this secon…
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