19. God shall hear, and afflict them. They
make a noise as well as I, and God will hear them. The voice of slander,
malice, and pride is not alone heard by those whom it grieves; it reaches to
heaven, it demands vengeance, and shall have it. Even he that abideth of old. All the prayers of saints and profanities of sinners are before his
judgment-seat, and he will see that justice is done. Selah. The singer
pauses, overwhelmed with awe in the presence of the everlasting God. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God. His own reverential
feeling causes him to remember the daring godlessness of the wicked; he feels
that his trials have driven him to his God, and he declares that their
uninterrupted prosperity was the cause of their living in such neglect of the
Most High. He who is without trouble is often without God. It is a forcible
proof of human depravity that man turns the mercy of God into nutriment for
sin: the Lord save us from this.
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