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EXPOSITION.
In this verse we hear again the burden of the Psalmist's
prayer: "_Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man_."
Let the sinner lose his power to sin; stop the tyrant, arrest the
oppressor, weaken the loins of the mighty, and dash in pieces the
terrible. They deny thy justice: let them feel it to the full.
Indeed, they shall feel it; for God shall hunt the sinner for
ever: so long as there is a grain of sin in him it shall be
sought out and punished. It is not a little worthy of note, that
very few great persecutors have ever died in their beds: the
curse has manifestly pursued them, and their fearful sufferings
have made them own _that_ divine justice at which they could at
one time launch defiance. God permits tyrants to arise as
thorn-hedges to protect his church from the intrusion of
hypocrites, and that he may teach his backsliding children by
them, as Gideon did the men of Succoth with the briers of the
wilderness; but he soon cuts up these Herods, like the thorns,
and casts them into the fire. Thales, the Milesian, one of the
wise men of Greece, being asked what he thought to be the
greatest rarity in the world, replied, "To see a tyrant live to
be an old man." See how the Lord breaks, not only the arm, but
the neck of proud oppressors! To the men who had neither justice
nor mercy for the saints, there shall be rendered justice to the
full, but not a grain of mercy.