Therefore their people return to them, and they drink up waters of abundance.
God's people are driven to His throne by the doggish tongues of the wicked, the Shepherd calls home His sheep with persecution itself. Though beloved, they drain the bitter cup in full measure while their enemies prosper, yet the Lord does not alter His dispensations. This medicine is for those He loves, not for rebels.
AI summary
Either God's true people, seeing wicked prosperity and feeling their own afflictions, return to the same temptation the psalmist faced; or hypocrites who observed the cost of religious life simply abandon God's ways and join the wicked. The phrase best means the followers of these wicked men flock to them for their prosperity and share their evil practices.
AI summary
He had been brooding on the wicked's prosperity until the fire burned in him; then he checked himself: Yet God is good. That word settled him. We must anchor ourselves to truths that cannot be shaken, His goodness, His justice, His holiness, and believe that all His ways, though we cannot now trace them, stand firm upon these rocks.
AI summary
Commenting on Psalm 73:1-14