Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth
Not in common, for all men are sinners, even good men are not
without sin; but notorious sinners, whose lives are one continued
series and course of sinning; such as will not have Christ to
reign over them, and do not give him the glory due unto him;
particularly antichrist, the man of sin, and his followers; they
that worship the beast and his image: these will be consumed with
the breath of his mouth, and with the brightness of his coming,
and will perish out of his land, ( 2
Thessalonians 2:3 2
Thessalonians 2:4 2
Thessalonians 2:8 ) ( Psalms 10:16
) .
And let the wicked be no more;
as the wicked one, antichrist, will be no more when consumed;
there will never rise another, when the beast and false prophet
are taken and cast alive into the lake of fire; there will no
more of the antichristian party remain, the remnant of them will
be slain with the sword; after the battle of Armageddon, there
will be none left of the followers of antichrist, nor any ever
rise up any more.
Bless thou the Lord, O my soul;
as for his mercies, spiritual and temporal, so for the
destruction of all his enemies. The psalm begins and ends alike
as the preceding.
Praise ye the Lord, or hallelujah:
this is the first time this word is used in this book of Psalms,
though frequently afterwards: and it is observable that it is
only used, in the New Testament, at the prophecy of the
destruction of antichrist, ( Revelation
19:1 Revelation
19:3 Revelation
19:4 Revelation
19:6 ) which may serve to confirm the sense before given; and
is to be considered as a call upon the saints to praise the Lord,
on account of his righteous judgments on his and his church's
enemies; so Aben Ezra.