Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD.
Ver. 11. Assemble yourselves, and come all ye heathen] Come and fetch your bane, whereof by your forwardness to come uncalled ye may seem to be ambitious; judgments need not go to find you out; for you associate yourselves, that ye may be broken in pieces, Isaiah 8:9, as at Armageddon, Revelation 16:16. Come on, therefore, since you will needs be so mad, and take what befalls you. "Who would set the briars and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together," Isaiah 27:4; see Zec 14:2-3 Ezekiel 38:4; Eze 38:16-23 Revelation 19:17,18. See Trapp on " Zec 14:2 " See Trapp on " Zec 14:3 " The word hero Englished assemble is by Jarchi rendered festinate, hasten; by others conglobamini, cluster together, that ye may be the sooner cut off, that the mouth of God s sword may have its full bit, that he may make an utter end, and your affliction may not rise up the second time, Nahum 1:9 .
Thither cause thy mighty ones to come down] Vel angeles vel alios, saith Mercer, either thine angels (called God's mighties, Psa 103:20 Isa 10:34 Psalms 18:17, where these "mighty ones" are said to make Sion as dreadful to all her enemies as these angels made Sinai at the delivery of the law) or other thine officers and executioners, that by thy command they may fall on, and destroy these heathen armies, see Joel 3:13; the answer to this prayer of the prophet, and the power of prayer which Luther fitly calleth bombardas et instrumenta bellica Christianorum, the great ordnance and warlike weapons of Christians.