Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.
Ver. 5. Thou hast rebuked the heathen, &c.] God first chideth the Church's enemies by lighter judgments; if these be not improved, he destroyeth them, Psalms 119:21; and, because they sought to obscure and extirpate his name from among men, therefore he puts out their name, that is, their fame and reputation, for ever and yet, or for ever and a day, as we use to say: Ingloria vita recedit, they go out in a snuff, as did the primitive and modern persecutors, of abhorred memory.