Destroy them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against you.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Sepulchre, which never says there is enough, Proverbs xxx. 15. (Calmet)
Dealt St. Paul authorizes this version, (Romans iii. 13.) though the Hebrew be rendered, "they flatter cunningly "(Berthier) or "they sharpen their tongue "and polish it like a sword, that it may cut more easily. This may be applied to heretics. (Sts. Athanasius, Chrysostom, and Jerome) (Calmet)
Judge, or "condemn them. "Hebrew may be explained as a prediction. (Berthier)
The Holy Spirit could not dictate an imprecation or desire of revenge. But David might beg that God would frustrate the designs of his enemies; and, by treating them with some severity, hinder the execution of their wicked schemes, which would bring on their own ruin. (St. Chrysostom; St. Augustine) (Calmet)
Though the just desire the conversion of all, yet if any die impenitent, they approve of God's judgment, manifested at the end of the world. (Worthington)
Provoked. Hebrew, "rebelled against. "I forgive them for what they have done to me. But I grieve at thy offence; make them return to a sense of their duty. (Calmet)
He might abhor the enemies of salvation, the world, whom Christ has condemned. (Berthier)
