The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
The Lord is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked. The righteousness of God is His people's ground of hoping deliverance. Israel's true standing is on the righteousness of faith: then at once, when she recognizes this, the righteousness of God, which is inseparably connected with His faithfulness to His promises to Israel's fathers, binds Him to deliver her (Romans 10:3-4). This shall be so in the latter days, (Romans 2:1-29.) "The cords of the wicked" are those with which Israel's enemies had bound her. Instead of their cords (cf. "the rod of the wicked," Psalms 125:3) remaining on Israel, Yahweh-Messiah's cords shall bind the hostile confederate world-powers themselves. They cannot "break" those "bands asunder," nor "cast" those "cords from" them (Psalms 2:3).