to be destroyed. Hezekiah must have been familiar with Isaiah's prophecies, who employs the very words of verses: Psalms 137:8; Psalms 137:9. (Isaiah 13:6; Isaiah 13:16-18; Isaiah 21:9; Isaiah 47:14; Isaiah 47:15. Compare Nahum 3:10.)
Happy. See App-63. for the Beatitudes of the Psalms.
rewardeth. See notes above, which show that the "post-exilic" assumption involves insuperable difficulties if this Psalm is sundered from the contemporary prophecies of Isaiah (especially Psa 13:1-14. Psa 13:27), and from. Babylon under Assyrian rule.