Psalm 94:15

people, and the prosperity of the providence among them. The providence of God to his people lies much in after games: God seems to go away from his, and then the wicked have the better: anon he returns, and then his people carry the day. Judgment shall return unto righteousness; or justice shall return unto judgment; a phrase of speech frequent in the Old Testament to note retaliation, quid for quo, like for like. The term is distinct as well as the phrase, and helps to give the sense of the Spirit of God here; qrc from qrc, se asseruit, justice shall assert herself; Christ shall assert his people, his promises, his threatenings. "Shall return," retro-agi: what evil men do to good shall be redone to them, done back again upon them by God. Or this root, here rendered "return," may be rendered to abide and rest. In Psalms 23:6 , it is so rendered: "I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever." Justice doth, as it were, go from home sometimes, when it visits the saints; but it returns to its home and dwelling, i.e., the wicked. Justice is, as it were, from home, till it returns to the wicked, there it abides and dwells. "Justice shall dwell and rest in judgment," i.e., in the execution of punishments upon wicked men. jpfm, from jpf, judicium exercuit, notes the exercise and execution of justice: a thing rests in its end; justice dwells and rests in judgment, i.e., in its execution, in its end for which, and unto which and whom it is appointed. Nicholas Lockyer, 1612-1684-5.

Verse 15. Shall follow it. The right reading is in the margin, -- shall be after it, or after that; that is,

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Verse 15.