How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.
How sudden their ruin, how complete. Death will not wait upon their manners; stern justice, unbribed by their wealth, hurls them into destruction. They are consumed utterly, root and branch, with terrors within and without. Like trees blasted by lightning they stand as monuments of vengeance. The momentary glory of the graceless is effaced in an instant, their loftiness consumed in a moment.
AI summary
They are brought into desolation in a moment, suddenly, just as Sodom, Pharaoh, and Korah fell. The words express wonder at the amazing turn of events. Their destruction is entire, like a potter's vessel shattered beyond repair, done with terrors that seize both from without by judgment and from within upon the conscience, especially when that awful sentence comes at last.
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He kept his mouth by remembering God's children; though his heart reasoned that he had cleansed it in vain, he would not speak the thought aloud. To utter evil is worse than to think it, it gives the poison an imprimatur and infects others. Better to lay your hand upon your mouth and let the error die with yourself than to publish your doubts and destroy the faith of those whom God owns as His own.
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Commenting on Psalm 73:15-20