Remaining Chapters
2As smoke is driven away{H8736)}, so drive them away{H8799)}: as wax melteth{H8736)} before the fire, so let the wicked perish{H8799)} at the presence of God.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.
Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)In these verses, I. David prays that God would appear in his glory, 1. For the confusion of his enemies ( Ps. 68:1 , 2 ): “ Let God arise , as a judge to pass sentence upon them, as a general to take the field and do execution upon them; and let them be scattered , and flee before him, as unable to keep their ground, much less to make head against him. Let God arise, as the sun when he goes forth…
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