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You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You have blotted out their name forever and ever.
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God's Justice in Action
Commentators explain that God's 'rebuke' in this verse is not just a verbal warning but a decisive, powerful action. God acts as a righteous judge, intervening in history to overthrow wicked forces that oppose His people. This is a concrete display of His power and commitment to defending just causes.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Thou hast rebuked the heathen—This refers not to pagans in general, or the nations at large, but to those who are particularly ment…
19th Century
Anglican
Put out. —Better, blotted out. The family is extinct and its name erased from the civil register. ([Reference Psalms 109:…
Baptist
You have rebuked the heathen, you have destroyed the wicked, you have put out their name forever and ever. O you enemy, –
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16th Century
Protestant
The Psalmist proceeds a step further in the 4th verse, declaring that God stretched forth his hand to give him help, because he was unrighteously a…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
You have rebuked the Heathen The people of the Philistines, as the Targum and Kimchi explain it, though some Jewish …
If we are to praise God acceptably, we must praise Him in sincerity, with our whole heart. When we give thanks for a particular mercy, we should re…
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13th Century
Catholic
In the previous psalm, the author gave thanks for the favors given to the whole human race. Now, in this psalm, he gives thanks specifica…
