As for such as turn aside unto their crooked
ways
The ways of sin, immorality, or error; which are crooked ways,
not agreeing with the word of God, the rule of faith and
practice. This seems to design not openly profane sinners, who
have always lived in a course of sin and wickedness; but carnal
professors, who, through affliction and persecution because of
the word, are offended, and desert the good ways of God; and turn
from the holy commandment, word, and ordinances, they have
professionally embraced;
the Lord shall lead them forth with the workers of
iniquity;
the Targum adds,
``to hell.''These hypocrites shall be led forth by the Lord with abandoned sinners, like malefactors to the place of execution; when he shall bid them depart from him, and they shall go into everlasting fire; and if there is any place in hell hotter than another, those shall have it; see ( Matthew 7:23 ) ( 25:41 ) ( 24:51 ) ;
[but] peace [shall be] upon Israel;
upon every true Israelite, upon the whole Israel of God; the
apostle seems to have respect to this passage in ( Galatians
6:16 ) ; such shall have spiritual peace in their hearts now,
and eternal peace hereafter. The words may be read either as a
prayer that it might be, or as a prophecy that it should be; and
may have regard unto the latter day, when all the enemies of
Christ and his church shall be destroyed, and there shall be
abundance of peace, so long as the moon endures, ( Psalms 72:7 ) . Aben
Ezra observes, that the psalmist prays that God would remove the
wicked far off, and then there would be peace in Israel; and to
the same purpose Arama and Kimchi interpret it.