7. Let them melt away as waters which run continually. Like mountain torrents dried up by the summer heats let them disappear;
or like running streams whose waters are swiftly gone, so let them pass away;
or like water spilt which none can find again, so let them vanish out of
existence. When he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cutin pieces. When the Lord goes forth to war, let his judgments so tell upon
these persecutors that they may be utterly cut in pieces as a mark shattered by
many shafts. Or perhaps the meaning is, when the ungodly man marches to the
conflict, let his arrows and his bow drop into fragments, so that the boastful
warrior may not have wherewithal to hurt the object of his enmity. In either
sense the prayer of the psalm has often become fact, and will be again
fulfilled as often as need arises.
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