11. But the king shall rejoice in God. Usurpers
will fade, but he will flourish, and his prosperity will be acknowledged as the
gift of God. The Lord’s anointed will not fail to offer his joyful
thanksgiving. Every one that sweereth by him shall glory. His faithful
followers will have occasion for triumph: they will never need to blush for the
oath of their allegiance. Or, “swearing
by him” may signify allegiance to God, and worship paid to him. The heathen
swore by their gods; those who owned the Lord as their God should have reason
to glory when he proved himself the defender of the king’s righteous cause, and
the destroyer of traitors. But the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped. And the sooner the better. If shame will not do it, nor fear, nor
reason, then let them be stopped with the sexton’s shovel-full of earth.
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