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The Lord is the true God: q. d. All these are but false gods: Jehovah is the alone true God; they are but lies, and the teachers of lies. God is truth itself, and that both in regard of his essence, as it is ascribed to Christ, 1Jo_5:20; and also in regard of his faithfulness, Num_23:19 Psa_31:5.
He is the living God; these are all but dead stocks and stones, Jehovah is the only living God, having life in himself, and giving life to all things else, Joh_5:21,26. Hence these idols are not only more base than any other creature, but even viler than the matter itself of which they are made.
An everlasting King: these, though accounted kings, and countenanced by kings, yet both they and their kings do all perish; time devours them all with worm or rust, or by injuries and violence offered to them, as in the next verse; but none of these or any thing else can affect the true God, he is
everlasting.
At his wrath the earth shall tremble; he can with his look or frown make the foundations of the heaven and the earth to shake, whereas these stocks can move them no more than they can themselves, which is not one hair’s breadth from their stations.
The nations shall not be able to abide his indignation; not able either to stop it or bear it, but must stoop and fall under it, Psa_76:7; the wicked will not be able to stand in judgment, Psa_1:5.