The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.
Ver. 3. The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved] Both Church and commonwealth here are utterly out of order; I shall endeavour mine utmost to set all to rights, and so to preserve the world from ruin, which subsisteth by and for the sake of God's Israel, Absque stationibus non staret mundus.
I bear up the pillars of it] Semen sanctum statumen terrae, Isaiah 6:13, The holy seed upholdeth the state. David did (as Lucan saith of Cato), toti genitum se credere mundo; Jesus Christ much more; he is the true Atlas, upholding all things by the word of his power, Hebrews 1:3 .