Psalms 9:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.

They shall fall ... at thy presence. The mere glance of God is enough to destroy every enemy. It is not man's might that gains for His people their triumph over the ungodly. "The man of sin," the "wicked one," "the son of perdition," shall in the last days be destroyed by the brightness х epifaneia (G2015), literally, manifestation] of the Lord's coming х parousia (G3952), literally, presence in person] (2 Thessalonians 2:8). An earnest of the confusion of the anti-Christian confederacy at the mere presence of the Lord was given when the bend under Judas (the only other one in all Scripture called "the son of perdition"), at the mere presence of the unarmed Jesus, and on His merely saying, "I am He." "went backward and fell to the ground" (John 18:3-6).

Psalms 9:3

3 When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.