Psalms 24

Psalms 24:1

Die - They provoke God to cut them off before their time. Unclean - Or, Sodomites; to whose destruction, he may allude. They shall die by some exemplary stroke of Divine vengeance. Yea, and after death, their life is among the unclean, the unclean spirits, the devil and his angels, for ever excluded from the new Jerusalem, into which no unclean thing shall enter.

Psalms 24:2

Openeth - Causeth them to hear, and understand, and do, the will of God.

Psalms 24:3

He would - If thou hadst opened thine ear to God’s counsels. Into - A state of ease and freedom.

Psalms 24:4

The judgment - Or, the sentence, thou hast justified the hard speeches which wicked men utter against God. Therefore - Therefore the just judgment of God takes hold on thee. Thou hast maintained their cause against God, and God passes against thee the sentence of condemnation due to wicked men.

Psalms 24:5

Wrath - Conceived by God against thee. Then - If once God’s wrath take hold of thee, no ransom will be accepted for thee.

Psalms 24:6

Thy riches - If thou hadst as much of them as ever. Forces - The strongest forces.

Psalms 24:7

The night - The night of death, which Job had often desired, for then, thou art irrecoverably gone: take heed of thy foolish and often repeated desire of death, lest God inflict it upon thee in anger.

Psalms 24:8

Chosen - Thou hast chosen rather to quarrel with God, and censure his judgments, than quietly to submit to them.

Psalms 24:9

Behold - God is omnipotent; and therefore can, either punish thee far worse, or deliver thee, if thou dost repent. He is also infinitely wise; and as none can work like him, so none can teach like him. Therefore do not presume to teach him how to govern the world. None teacheth with such authority and convincing evidence, with such condescension and compassion, with such power and efficacy as God doth, he teaches by the bible, and that is the best book; by his son, and he is the best master.