Verse 28. Let them be blotted out ] They shall be blotted out from the land of the living. They shall be cut off from life, which they have forfeited by their cruelty and oppression. The psalmist is speaking of retributive justice; and in this sense all these passages are to be understood.
And not be written with the righteous. ] They shall have no title to that long life which God has promised to his followers.
Verses 22-29 - These are prophecies of the destruction of Christ's persecutors. Verse #(22, 23), are applied to the judgments of God upon the unbelievin Jews, in Ro 11:9, 10. When the supports of life and delights of sense through the corruption of our nature, are made the food and fuel of sin, then our table is a snare. Their sin was, that they would not see but shut their eyes against the light, lovingdarkness rather; their punishment was, that they should not see, but should be given up to their own hearts' lusts which hardened them. Those who rejectGod' great salvation proffered to them, may justly fear that his indignatio will be poured out upon them. If men will sin, the Lord will reckon for it. But those that have multiplied to sin, may yet find mercy, throug the righteousness of the Mediator. God shuts not out any from tha righteousness; the gospel excludes none who do not, by unbelief, shu themselves out. But those who are proud and self-willed, so that the will not come in to God's righteousness, shall have their doo accordingly; they themselves decide it. Let those not expect an benefit thereby, who are not glad to be beholden to it. It is better to be poor and sorrowful, with the blessing of the Lord, than rich an jovial, and under his curse. This may be applied to Christ. He was when on earth, a man of sorrows that had not where to lay his head; but God exalted him. Let us call upon the Lord, and though poor an sorrowful, guilty and defiled, his salvation will set us up on high.
