Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Praise ye the LORD.
Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more - alluding to Numbers 14:35. The same doom which befell the rebel Israelites in the wilderness shall befall the pagan or Gentile apostates who "set themselves together against the Lord, and against His Anointed" (Psalms 2:1-2). Thus the true scope of the psalm appears the deliverance of the godly at last out of all their present troubles from the ungodly. The trembling of the earth and the smoking of the high hills (Psalms 104:32) at the look and touch of Yahweh is here expressed in the plain sense, the ungodly shall be destroyed, and the godly saved by that Lord whose might and whose love have been set forth throughout the psalm. The imperative, "Let the sinners be consumed," is the prophetic word which carries with it its own fulfillment.
Praise ye the Lord Hebrew 'Hallelujah;' here first occurring Not found in David's psalms Praise ye the Lord - Hebrew, 'Hallelujah;' here first occurring. Not found in David's psalms.