The face of the LORD [is] against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
Ver. 16. The face of the Lord is against them that do evil] Let not such dream of a long and happy life, as Psalms 34:12. This they are apt to do; but shall be carried from a fool's paradise to a true prison. For that people may not imagine God to be μονοφθαλμαν, and so made up of mercy as to forget his judgments, the wicked are here assured, that the face of the Lord is against them, that he beholdeth them from heaven with a terrible countenance, that he is grievously angry with them, and will surely and severely punish them, and theirs after them.
To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth] And so to cross them in the thing that they most coveted, viz. to renown themselves among men. God writeth them in the earth in opposition to those whose names are written in heaven, Luke 10:20, because they forsook the Lord, the fountain of living waters, Jeremiah 17:13 .