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5Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.
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The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts.
And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.
The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)The title of this psalm gives a very uncertain sound concerning the occasion of penning it. It is upon Muth-labben , which some make to refer to the death of Goliath, others of Nabal, others of Absalom; but I incline to think it signifies only some tone, or some musical instrument, to which this psalm was intended to be sung; and that the enemies David is here triumphing in the defeat of are the P…
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