Psalm X
Is "all his lifetime in bondage," "shall be destroyed." Then all things will have been put under his feet, "prin-
cipalities and powers being made subject to him." This view, so far from being alien from the scope of the passage, is more consistent than any other; for man as a race cannot well be conceived to have a higher honour put upon him than to be thus exalted In the person and destiny of Jesus of Nazareth. And at the same time, by no oth<'r of His glorious manifestations has God more Illustriously declared those attributes which distinguish His name than In the scheme of redemption, of which this economy forms such an important and essential feature, in the generic import of the language, as describing man's present relation to the works of God's hands, it may be regarded as typical, thus allowing not only tlie usual application, but also this higher sense which the Inspired writers of the New Testament have assigned it. 0. Appropriately, the writer closes this brief but pregnant and sublime song of praise with the terms of admiration with which It was opened.
Ver. 1-18. The Psalmist mourns God'i apparent indifference to his troubles, which are aggravated by the successful malice, blasphemy, pride, deceit, and profanity of the wicked. On the just and discriminating providence of God he relies for the destruction of their false security, and the defence of the needy.
1. These are, of course, figurative terms (cf. Psalm
7. 6; 13. 1; Ac), hidest—supply thme eyes or face. 3.
Lit., In pride of the wicked they (the poor or humble,
V. 17; Psalm 12. 5) shall be taken in the devices they (the proud) have imagined. 3. his heart's (or sours) desire—
t. e., his success in evil, and blessetli, &c. fie (the wicked) blesselh the covetmis, he despiselh the Lord. 4. The face expresses the self-conceit, whose fruit is practical atheism (Psalm 14. 1). 5,6. Such Is his confidence In the permanence of his way or course of life, that he disregards God's providential government (otU o/ HglU, because he will not look, Isaiah 26. 11), sneers at hll
OocTs Providence and Justice. PSALMS Xr—XVT. Jorrvption of J/anArmd,
—lit., saying of (v. 5). seven times—thoroughly (Daniel !»
enemies, and boasts perpetual freedom from evil. 7-10. The malignity and deceit (Psa.rn HO. 3) of such are followed by acts combining cunning, fraud, and violence (cf. Proverbs 1. 11, 18), aptly illustrated by the habits of the
19). 7. them (Margin.) 8. The wicked roam undisturbed doing evil, when vileness or vile men are exalted.