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John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 64:8
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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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So shall they make their own tongue to fall upon themselves, etc.] The evil things they have wished for, threatened unto, and imprecated on others, shall come upon themselves; the curses they have cursed others with shall come upon themselves; the pit they have dug for others, they fall into. So Haman, to whom some apply the psalm, was hanged on the gallows he made for Mordecai; and the accusers of Daniel, to whom others apply it, were cast into the same den of lions they procured for him; and Babylon, who has been drunk with the blood of the saints, shall have blood given her to drink. all that see them shall flee away; not being able to help them, nor to bear the horrible sight, and fearing the same judgments should fall on themselves; (see <041634>Numbers 16:34 <661810>Revelation 18:10,15). Or, “they shall move themselves” f848; shake their heads in a way of derision, as Jarchi interprets it; or skip for joy, as the word is rendered in (<244827>Jeremiah 48:27); and then it must be understood of the righteous; who, seeing the vengeance on the wicked, rejoice, as in (<195206>Psalm 52:6 58:10); though, as they are afterwards particularly mentioned, others seem to be designed. The word is used for lamenting and bemoaning one’s self, in (<243118>Jeremiah 31:18); and so may be applied to the friends of the wicked lamenting and bemoaning their ruin, and their being bereaved of them, (<661809>Revelation 18:9,11).
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