Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 5. They break in pieces thy people ] This was true af the Babylonians. Nehuchadnezzar slew many; carried the rest into captivity; ruined Jerusalem; overturned the temple; sacked, pillaged, and destroyed all the country.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-11 - We may with boldness appeal to God; for he is the almighty Judge by whom every man is judged. Let this encourage those who suffer wrong, to bear it with silence, committing themselves to Him who judge righteously. These prayers are prophecies, which speak terror to the sons of violence. There will come a day of reckoning for all the har speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against God, his truths, an ways, and people. It would hardly be believed, if we did not witnes it, that millions of rational creatures should live, move, speak, hear understand, and do what they purpose, yet act as if they believed tha God would not punish the abuse of his gifts. As all knowledge is from God, no doubt he knows all the thoughts of the children of men, an knows that the imaginations of the thoughts of men's hearts are onl evil, and that continually. Even in good thoughts there is a want of being fixed, which may be called vanity. It concerns us to keep strict watch over our thoughts, because God takes particular notice of them. Thoughts are words to God.
Original Hebrew עמך5971 יהוה3068 ידכאו1792 ונחלתך5159 יענו׃6031
