The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are
dissolved
Or "melted" F16; the inhabitants, through fear and
dread of the righteous Judge, appearing in the clouds of heaven,
and of the wrath that is coming on they are deserving of; and the
earth, through fire, when the heavens being on fire shall be
dissolved, the elements melt with fervent heat, and the earth and
the works therein shall be burnt up, ( 2
Peter 3:10-12 ) .
I bear up the pillars of it.:
so that it shall not utterly perish; for though by the fire, at
the general conflagration, the heavens and the earth will be so
melted and dissolved as to lose their present form, and shall be
purged and purified from all noxious qualities, the effects of
sin; yet the substance will remain, out of which will be formed
new heavens and a new earth, and this through the power of Christ
sustaining it, and preserving it from entire destruction or
annihilation. R. Obadiah by "pillars" understands in a figurative
sense the righteous, for whose sake the world is continued in its
being; these at the general conflagration will be bore up and
preserved by Christ, whom they shall meet in the air, even the
church, who is the pillar and ground of truth; and not only the
ministers of the Gospel, who are pillars in Christ's house, but
also every believer, which is a pillar there, that shall never go
out, ( 1 Timothy
3:15 ) ( Galatians
2:9 ) ( Revelation
3:12 ) . Aben Ezra and Kimchi interpret the pillars of the
mountains.
Selah. (See Gill on Psalms 3:2).