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9They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow{H8799)} before him; and his enemies{H8802)} shall lick{H8762)} the dust.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee.
All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.
Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee. …
But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 2-17)This is a prophecy of the prosperity and perpetuity of the kingdom of Christ under the shadow of the reign of Solomon. It comes in, 1. As a plea to enforce the prayer: “Lord, give him thy judgments and thy righteousness , and then he shall judge thy people with righteousness , and so shall answer the end of his elevation, Ps. 72:2. Give him thy grace, and then thy people, committed to his charge,…
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