Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.
Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law. So Ezra, after the return from Babylon, when he heard that "the holy seed had mingled themselves with" the pagan people (Ezra 9:2-3), "rent his garment and his mantle, and plucked off the hair of his head and of his beard, and sat down astonied;" and with him "everyone that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those," etc. "Horror" х zal`aapaah (H2152)] - literally, burning, found only in Psalms 11:6; Lamentations 5:10. Burning indignation against the impiety of the transgressors, and zeal for the honour of God, who is insulted thereby (Psalms 119:139; Psalms 69:9). The "judgments" of the Lord gave him seasonable 'comfort' under such feelings (Psalms 119:52). Compare the holy "anger" of Jesus at the Pharisees, accompanied with "grief for the hardness of their hearts" in turning His very miracles into grounds of hatred and accusation (Mark 3:5). Anger, or even hot indignation, is not sinful, but consonant to the will of God, when not self, but the glory of God, is the object, and when grief for the wretched self-destroyers accompanies it (Philippians 3:18-19).