O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, [and] they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
Ver. 13. Shall be written in the earth,] i.e., Aeterna motre damnabuntur; they shall be hurled into hell, as not having their names written in heaven, Luk 10:20 where all that are "written among the living in Jerusalem" Isa 4:3 are enrolled. Heb 12:23 Non pro gloriosis sed pro probrosis habiti. See Psalms 17:14. Prudentius rightly saith, that their names that are written in red letters of blood in the Church's calendar, are written in golden letters in Christ's register in the book of life; as on the contrary, these idolaters, whose sin was with an iron pen engraven on the tables of their hearts, as Jer 17:1 are justly "written in the earth" - i.e., cast to hell.