Psalms 10:2-8

2 in Domino confido quomodo dicitis animae meae transmigra in montes sicut passer
3 quoniam ecce peccatores intenderunt arcum paraverunt sagittas suas in faretra ut sagittent in obscuro rectos corde
4 quoniam quae perfecisti destruxerunt iustus %autem; quid fecit
5 Dominus in templo sancto suo Dominus in caelo sedis eius oculi eius %in pauperem; respiciunt palpebrae eius interrogant filios hominum
6 Dominus interrogat iustum et impium qui autem diligit iniquitatem odit animam suam
7 pluet super peccatores laqueos ignis et sulphur et spiritus procellarum pars calicis eorum
8 quoniam iustus Dominus %et; iustitias dilexit aequitatem vidit vultus eius

Psalms 10:2-8 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 10

This psalm in the Septuagint version, and those that follow it, is a part and continuation of the preceding psalm, and makes but one with it; hence in these versions the number of the following psalms differ from others, and what is the eleventh with others is the tenth with them, and so on to the hundred fourteenth and one hundred fifteenth, which also are put into one; but in order to make up the whole number of one hundred and fifty, the hundred sixteenth and the hundred forty seventh are both divided into two; and indeed the subject of this psalm is much the same with the former. Antichrist and antichristian times are very manifestly described; the impiety, blasphemy, and atheism of the man of sin; his pride, haughtiness, boasting of himself, and presumption of security; his persecution of the poor, and murder of innocents, are plainly pointed at; nor does the character of the man of the earth agree to well to any as to him: his times are times of trouble; but at the end of them the kingdom of Christ will appear in great glory, when the Gentiles, the antichristian nations, will perish out of his land, Ps 10:1-11,16,18.

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