I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.
Ver. 8. I will early destroy all the wicked of the land] All, without partiality, and betimes, in matutinis, without delay, making it my morning's work to do justice; for then was judgment executed, Jeremiah 21:12. Or, I will do it daily, and as duly as the house is swept. See Lamentations 3:23, Indesinenter regnum, regiam Ecclesiamque purgabo a male (Trem.).
That I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of God] All the notorious debuchers from the Church; that I may weed out those wicked ones, those trouble towns, those desperadoes, the botches of human society. And here David describeth the utmost and chief end of civil government (that which the philosophers never dreamed of), viz. That God may be purely and sincerely served in his city, that is, in his Church.