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7When the wicked spring{H8800)} as the grass, and when all the workers{H8802)} of iniquity do flourish{H8686)}; it is that they shall be destroyed{H8736)} for ever:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction. …
A Psalm of David. Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. …
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. …
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-15)The psalmist had said (Ps. 92:4) that from the works of God he would take occasion to triumph; and here he does so. I. He triumphs over God’s enemies ( Ps. 92:7 , 9 , 11 ), triumphs in the foresight of their destruction, not as it would be the misery of his fellow-creatures, but as it would redound to the honour of God’s justice and holiness. He is confident of the ruin of sinners, 1. Though they…
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