Verse 8
8. I will early destroy Literally, In the mornings I will cut off. The plural form of the noun denotes a recurrence, or repetition, of the act, as often as occasion requires; and the figurative sense of the Hebrew word morning namely, early, speedily expresses the promptness with which he designs to execute the laws against the wicked. “Day by day will he execute his work of righteous judgment, purging out all ungodliness from the holy city.” Perowne. But the allusion is supposed, by some, to be to the oriental custom of holding judicial courts in the morning. See Jeremiah 21:12; and compare Luke 22:16, and John 18:28.
Wicked doers This is the class which David would cut off: not simply men devoid of heart piety, but men actively engaged to introduce practices subversive of the religion of Jehovah, and hence enemies of the state as well. The government of the Hebrews was a theocracy; God was their real king and lawgiver. He had called and organized them, and appointed their laws and rulers. Their existence was a provision of God in the historical development of redemption, and what was against his laws was against the commonwealth, and the far reaching ends of providence. Such rebellion against God was treason as well. No similar government has ever been known upon the earth.
The city of the Lord As Jehovah was the true sovereign, so it should be the height of David’s ambition to make his city worthy of his abode. The New Testament prototype of this city the “New Jerusalem,” the “Jerusalem which is above… the mother of us all,” (Galatians 4:26,) is given Revelation 21:27.
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