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title: "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible -  Psalms 58"
description: "PSALM 58   :-. David"
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PSALM 58

. David's critical condition in some period of the Sauline
persecution probably occasioned this Psalm, in which the Psalmist
teaches that the innate and actual sinfulness of men deserves, and
shall receive, God's righteous vengeance, while the pious may be
consoled by the evidence of His wise and holy government of men.

**1. O congregation**—literally,
"Oh, dumb"; the word used is never translated
"congregation." "Are ye dumb? ye should speak
righteousness," may be the translation. In any case, the writer
remonstrates with them, perhaps a council, who were assembled to try
his cause, and bound to give a right decision.

**2.** This they did not design; but
**weigh . . . violence**—or
give decisions of violence. *Weigh* is a figure to express the
acts of judges.
**in the earth**—publicly.

**3-5.** describe the wicked
generally, who sin naturally, easily, malignantly, and stubbornly.

**4. stoppeth her**—literally,
"his."
**ear**—that is, the wicked
man (the singular used collectively), who thus becomes like the deaf
adder which has no ear.

**3-5.** describe the wicked
generally, who sin naturally, easily, malignantly, and stubbornly.

**6.** He prays for their
destruction, under the figure of ravenous beasts ([Psalms 3:7](../../../kjv/psalms/3/7);
[Psalms 7:2](../../../kjv/psalms/7/2)).

**7. which run continually**—literally,
"they shall go to themselves," utterly depart, as rapid
mountain torrents.
**he bendeth . . . his
arrows**—prepares it. The term for preparing a bow applied to
arrows ([Psalms 64:3](../../../kjv/psalms/64/3)).
**let them . . .
pieces**—literally, "as if they cut themselves off"—that
is, become blunted and of no avail.

**8, 9.** Other figures of this
utter ruin; the last denoting rapidity. In a shorter time than pots
feel the heat of thorns on fire—

**9. he shall take them away as with a
whirlwind**—literally, "blow him (them) away."
**both living . . .
wrath**—literally, "as the living" or fresh as the
heated or burning—that is, thorns—all easily blown away, so
easily and quickly the wicked. The figure of the "snail"
perhaps alludes to its loss of saliva when moving. Though obscure in
its clauses, the general sense of the passage is clear.

**10, 11. wash . . . wicked**—denoting
great slaughter. The joy of triumph over the destruction of the
wicked is because they are God's enemies, and their overthrow shows
that He reigneth (compare [Psalms 52:5-7](../../../kjv/psalms/52/5-7);
[Psalms 54:7](../../../kjv/psalms/54/7)). In this assurance let
heaven and earth rejoice ([Psalms 96:10](../../../kjv/psalms/96/10);
[Psalms 97:1](../../../kjv/psalms/97/1), &c.).

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