Rod. — The imagery of this unusually long verse is peculiar. The “rod of the wicked,” or “of wickedness,” is the heathen sceptre, and the righteous are the Israelites who hold fast to the religion of their fathers. This sceptre now rests — a word expressing the presence of tyranny — upon the Holy Land; but this is not for a continuance. God will not suffer the tyranny to last, lest the righteous should be seduced or forced into connivance with practices which religion unites with patriotism to condemn.
Related Commentaries of Psalms 125:3
Psalms 125:3
3 For the rod of the wickeda shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.