The denunciation of the wicked begins with a call to repay the proud. We have grown so accustomed to modern mass consciousness not considering pride a flaw...
The denunciation of the wicked begins with a call to repay the proud. We have grown so accustomed to modern mass consciousness not considering pride a flaw that, even when we remember that pride is sinful, we still forget how it relates to other vices. Yet every time we proudly exalt ourselves, we claim a share of the authority that belongs to the Creator. For example, at the very moment when we begin to pass judgment and sentence in our hearts, we claim that we alone understand correctly “how things ought to be,” and as a result we try to become “like gods, knowing good and evil.”
But now we are called to come to our senses. We hear a reminder that, however profound our reasoning may seem to us, the Lord sees that it is futile. We now face a choice: humbly to acknowledge reality or to continue insisting upon our own infallibility. We can choose the second path, but sooner or later, as we follow it, we will become mired in the swamp of wickedness. Then, having rejected the one Advocate, we will have only ourselves to blame and will have to bear the consequences of our own disgraceful deeds.
93 This and the six following psalms, according to the opinion of the Hebrew doctors, belong to the times of the Messiah. The glory of God's kingdom, both of providence and glory, Psa 93:1-5.
93:1 Clothed - That majesty and strength which he always had, he will shew in the eyes of all people. Moved - He will overrule all the confusions in the world, so that they shall end in the erection of that kingdom of the Messiah, which can never be moved.
93:3 Floods - The enemies of thy kingdom.
93:5 Testimonies - Thy promises, which no less than the precepts are God's testimonies, or the witnesses, or declarations of his will to mankind. He seems here to speak of those precious promises concerning the erection of his kingdom in the world by the Messiah. Holiness - It becometh thy people to be holy in all their approach to thee.