Psa 92:7-8 | TDavid | STEP | EXPOSITION Verse 7 . When the wicked spring as the grass, in abundance, and apparent strength, hastening on their progress like verdant plants, which come to perfection in a day, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; flowering in their prime and pride, their pomp and their prosperity; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever. They grow to die, they blossom to be blasted. They flower for a short space to wither without end. Greatness and glory are to them but the prelude of their overthrow. Little does their opposition matter, the Lord reigns on as if they had never blasphemed him; as a mountain abides the same though the meadows at its feet bloom or wither, even so the Most High is unaffected by the fleeting mortals who dare oppose him; they shall soon vanish for ever from among the living. But as for the wicked -- how can our minds endure the contemplation of their doom "for ever." Destruction "for ever" is a portion far too terrible for the mind to realise. Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, the full terror of the wrath to come! EXPLANATORY NOTES AND QUAINT SAYINGS Verse 7 . When the wicked spring as the grass , etc. Their felicity is the greatest infelicity. -- Adam Clarke. Verse 7 . Little do they think that they are suffered to prosper that like beasts they may be fitter for slaughter . The fatter they are, the fitter for slaughter, and the sooner slain: "He slew the fattest of them." . --Zachary Bogan. HINTS FOR PASTORS AND LAYPERSONS Verse 7 . Great prosperity the frequent forerunner of destruction to wicked men, for it leads them to provoke divine wrath -- By hardness of heart, as Pharaoh. By pride, as Nebuchadnezzar. By haughty hatred of the saints, as Haman. By carnal security, as the rich fool. By self exaltation, as Herod. Verse 7-10 . Contrasts. Between the wicked and God, . Between God's enemies and his friends, . --C.A. Davis. Verse 7, . 12-14. The wicked and the righteous pourtrayed. --C.A. Davis.

Psalms 92:7-8

EXPOSITION

Verse 7. When the wicked spring as the grass, in abundance, and apparent strength, hastening on their progress like verdant plants, which come to perfection in a day, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; flowering in their prime and pride, their pomp and their prosperity; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever. They grow to die, they blossom to be blasted. They flower for a short space to wither without end. Greatness and glory are to them but the prelude of their overthrow. Little does their opposition matter, the Lord reigns on as if they had never blasphemed him; as a mountain abides the same though the meadows at its feet bloom or wither, even so the Most High is unaffected by the fleeting mortals who dare oppose him; they shall soon vanish for ever from among the living. But as for the wicked -- how can our minds endure the contemplation of their doom "for ever." Destruction "for ever" is a portion far too terrible for the mind to realise. Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, the full terror of the wrath to come!

EXPLANATORY NOTES AND QUAINT SAYINGS

Verse 7. When the wicked spring as the grass, etc. Their felicity is the greatest infelicity. -- Adam Clarke.

Verse 7. Little do they think that they are suffered to prosper that like beasts they may be fitter for slaughter. The fatter they are, the fitter for slaughter, and the sooner slain: "He slew the fattest of them." Psalms 78:31. --Zachary Bogan.

HINTS FOR PASTORS AND LAYPERSONS

Verse 7. Great prosperity the frequent forerunner of destruction to wicked men, for it leads them to provoke divine wrath --

Verse 7-10. Contrasts. Between the wicked and God, Psalms 92:7-8. Between God's enemies and his friends, Psalms 92:9-10. --C.A. Davis.

Verse 7,. 12-14. The wicked and the righteous pourtrayed. --C.A. Davis.

EXPOSITION

Verse 8. But thou, Lord, art most high for evermore. This is the middle verse of the Psalm, and the great fact which this Sabbath song is meant to illustrate. God is at once the highest and most enduring of all beings. Others rise to fall, but he is the Most High to eternity. Glory be to his name! How great a God we worship! Who would not fear thee, O thou High Eternal One! The ungodly are destroyed for ever, and God is most high for ever; evil is cast down, and the Holy One reigns supreme eternally.

EXPLANATORY NOTES AND QUAINT SAYINGS

Verse 8. Here is the central pivot of the Psalm. But thou, Lord, art most high for evermore, lit. "art height", & c., the abstract used for the concrete, to imply that the essence of all that is high is concentrated in Jehovah. When God and the cause of holiness seem low, God is really never higher than then; for out of seeming weakness he perfects the greatest strength. When the wicked seem high, they are then on the verge of being cast down for ever. The believer who can realize this will not despair at the time of his own depression, and of the seeming exaltation of the wicked. If we can feel "Jehovah most high for evermore", we can well be unruffled, however low we lie. -- A.R. Fausset.