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The Confidence of Final Triumph
v. 8. Thine hand shall find out all Thine enemies, the psalmist's hopeful statement now becoming a definite prophecy concerning the final revenge of Jehovah; Thy right hand shall find out those that hate Thee, reaching out for them to inflict a certain punishment upon them.
v. 9. Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven, a very strong expression to show how utterly the Lord's vengeance would consume them, in the time of Thine anger; the Lord shall swallow them up in His wrath, and the fire shall devour them, this being an unmistakable reference to the punishment following the final Judgment, 2Pe_3:1
v. 10. Their fruit, that is, their children, their posterity, shalt Thou destroy from the earth and their seed, all those descending from them, from among the children of men, because they followed their parents in their wickedness.
v. 11. For they intended evil against Thee, the figure being taken from the laying or stretching out of snares for the purpose of catching wild beasts; they imagined a mischievous device, plans for bringing harm upon the king, which they are not able to perform, due to the interference of the Lord they shall not prevail with their wickedness.
v. 12. Therefore shalt Thou make them turn their back, make them turn their shoulder, force them to retreat and flee, when Thou shalt make ready Thine arrows upon Thy strings against the face of them, that is, when their troubles would cause them to flee, the Lord would overtake them and set His bow to aim at their face, thereby harassing them on both sides, placing them between two fires, and thus annihilating them.
v. 13. Be Thou exalted, Lord, in Thine own strength, with the glory which rightly belonged to Him for this mighty deliverance; so will we sing and praise Thy power. Thus the believers ever acknowledge and praise the mercy of God and the wonderful manifestation of His might, who in Jesus Christ has given them a perfect, eternal deliverance.