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John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 119:7
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Shall they escape by iniquity? etc.] Shall such iniquity as this, or persons guilty of it, go unpunished, or escape righteous judgment, and the vengeance of God? No; and much less shall they escape by means of their iniquity; by their wicked subtlety, or by any evil arts and methods made use of, by making a covenant with death, and an agreement with hell; or escape because of their iniquity; or be delivered because of the abominations done by them, as they flatter themselves, (<240710>Jeremiah 7:10). Some understand these words, not as referring to the escape of David’s enemies, but of himself; and render them, either by way of petition, “because of iniquity”, the iniquity of his enemies before described, “deliver [me] from them”; or “deliver them” f748, meaning his heels they marked, and his soul they waited for: or by way of assertion or interrogation, “because of iniquity” there shall be; or shall there be “a deliverance to them?” f749 his heels and his soul; or from them, his enemies. Though others choose to render the words thus; “because of [their] iniquity”, there shall be “a casting of them away” f750 by the Lord, and from his presence, with loathing and contempt, as sons of Belial; reprobate silver, rejected of the Lord; which agrees with what follows: in [thine] anger, cast down the people, O God; Saul’s courtiers, or the servants of Achish king of Gath, or both, who were in high places, but slippery ones; and such are sometimes brought down to destruction in a moment, by that God from whom promotion comes; who putteth down one, and sets up another, and which he does in wrath and anger.
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