15–16. In considering this terrible picture of the Lord’s
overwhelming judgments of his enemies, we are called upon to ponder it with
deep seriousness by the two untranslated words Higgaion and Selah.
Notice, first, that the character of God requires the punishment of sin. His
holiness and abhorrence of sin is thus displayed. So long as our God is God, he
will not, he cannot spare the guilty, except through that one glorious way in
which he is just, and yet the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus. We must
notice, secondly, that the manner of his judgment is singularly wise, and
indisputably just. He makes the wicked become their own executioners: theheathen are sunk down in the pit that they made. Like cunning hunters they
prepared a pitfall for the godly and fell into it themselves. Persecutors are
often ruined by their own malicious projects.
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