Matthew Poole Commentary - Psalms 59:13 - 59:13

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Psalms 59:13 - 59:13


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Consume them by degrees, and after thou hast made them to wander about, Psa_59:11.



That they may not be, to wit, in the land of the living, any more; as this phrase is frequently understood, whereof divers instances have been given.



Let them know experimentally, and to their cost, that God ruleth over and above them; that though Saul be king, yet God is his superior in power and authority, and all things among us shall be disposed, not as it pleaseth Saul, which his parasites are always suggesting to him, but as God will; and therefore I shall be preserved, and in fit time crowned, in spite of all that Saul or his forces can do against me.



In Jacob; in the land and over the people of Israel, whose king and governor he is in a peculiar manner.



Unto; or, and into; the contraction and being oft understood, as hath been noted before. These words may be referred, either,



1. To God’s ruling; let them know that God ruleth, not only in Jacob, but also to the ends of the earth. Or,



2. To men’s knowing; let them, or let men, know, even to the ends of the earth, that God ruleth in Jacob; let thy judgments be so manifest and dreadful in the destruction of thy wicked enemies, that not only Israelites, but even the remote nations of the world, may see it, and acknowledge thy power and providence in it.



The ends of the earth; either of this land; or rather, of the world. The sense is, That by those eminent and extraordinary discoveries of thy power, and wisdom, and justice it may be evident, both to them and to all that hear of it, that thou art no puny, or inferior, or topical god, like the gods of heathens, whose government is confined to a narrow compass; but the high and mighty God, and the great Ruler of the whole world.