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John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 52:7
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Lo, [this is] the man [that] made not God his strength, etc.] The Targum renders it, “that made not the Word of the Lord his strength”. These are the words the righteous would say, when they should see the destruction of Doeg: see the man, the mighty man, and his end; what all his ill gotten honour and riches are come to; and what his wickedness, deceit, and cruelty, have brought upon him. The righteous make the Lord their strength, put their trust in him, in whom is everlasting strength; do all they do in his strength; fly to him as their “strong hold”, as the word f702 may be rendered; thither they run, and are safe: but the rich man’s wealth is his strong city, (<201810>Proverbs 18:10,11); there he thinks himself safe, and places his confidence in it, as follows: but trusted in the abundance of his riches; (see Gill on “<194906>Psalm 49:6”); so the antichristian whore is represented as boasting of her riches and honour, and trusting in them, that they would always continue, (<661807>Revelation 18:7); like the fool in (<421219>Luke 12:19,20); [and] strengthened himself in his wickedness; encouraged and hardened himself in sin, gave up himself to it; and, by art obstinate continuance in it, strengthened the vicious habits contracted; stretched out his hand against God, and strengthened himself against the Almighty; went on in a daring manner, promising himself impunity; and as if his wickedness was his strength, his safeguard and protection: or in his mammon, his wealth and substance; as the Targum interprets it; and so R. Saadiah Gaon f703, and with which the Syriac version agrees; and then the sense is the same with the other clause. But, alas! what are all such forces of strength, when wrath comes forth from the Lord of hosts? (<183618>Job 36:18,19 <201104>Proverbs 11:4).
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