Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 4. Have the workers of iniquity ] For yl[p , poaley, workers seventy-two of Kennicott's and De Rossi's MSS., with several ancient editions, the Chaldee, though not noticed in the Latin translation in the London Polyglot, the Syriac, Vulgate, Septuagint, AEthiopic, and the Arabic, with the Anglo-Saxon, add the word lk col, all, - ALL the workers of iniquity; which is the reading in the parallel place in Psa. xiv. It may be necessary to observe, that the Chaldee, in the Antwerp and Paris Polyglots, and in that of Justinianus, has not the word lk col, ALL.
Have not Called upon God ] µyhla Elohim; but many MSS. have hwhy Jehovah, LORD.
Matthew Henry Commentary
- The corruption of man by nature.
--This psalm is almost the same as the 14th. The scope of it is to convince us of our sins. God, by the psalmist, here shows us how bad we are, and proves this by his own certain knowledge. He speaks terror to persecutors, the worst of sinners. He speaks encouragement to God' persecuted people. How comes it that men are so bad? Because there is no fear of God before their eyes. Men's bad practices flow from their bad principles; if they profess to know God, yet in works, because i thoughts, they deny him. See the folly of sin; he is a fool, in the account of God, whose judgment we are sure is right, that harbours suc corrupt thoughts. And see the fruit of sin; to what it brings men, when their hearts are hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. See als the faith of the saints, and their hope and power as to the cure of this great evil. There will come a Saviour, a great salvation, salvation from sin. God will save his church from its enemies. He wil save all believers from their own sins, that they may not be le captive by them, which will be everlasting joy to them. From this wor the Redeemer had his name JESUS, for he shall save his people from their sins, Mt 1:21 _________________________________________________
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