Psalms 58:7

"Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, LORD."

Key Reflection

This verse prays for divine protection against enemies, asking God to neutralize their ability to harm through words or actions, likening these foes to wild beasts with sharp teeth. The imagery underscores the petition for both physical and spiritual safety from those who seek to cause harm.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Let them melt away as waters which run continually -Let them vanish or disappear as waters that flow off, or floods that run by, and are no more seen. “Perhaps” the allusion here may be to the waters of a torrent that is swollen, which flow off and are lost in the sand, so that they wholly disappear. See the notes atJob 6:15-19. The prayer is, that his enemies might perish or be cut off, and that he might thus be saved from them. When he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows -literally, “he treads on his arrows.” See the notes atPsalms 11:2. The meaning here is, When he prepares for an attack - or, prepares to make war, as one does who bends his bow, and places his arrow on the string.

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