Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 94:13
That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.
That thou mayest give him rest – Mayest make his mind quiet and calm; mayest save him from murmuring, from despondency, from impatience, by just confidence in thee, and in thy government.
From the days of adversity – Or, in the days of evil; the time of calamity and trouble. That his mind may then be composed and calm.
Until the pit be digged for the wicked – Until the wicked be punished; that is, while the preparations are going on, or while God seems to delay punishment, and the wicked are suffered to live as if God did not notice them, or would not punish them. The idea is, that the mind should not be impatient as if their punishment would not come, or as if God were unconcerned; and that just views of the divine administration would tend to make the mind calm even when the wicked seemed to prosper and triumph. See the notes at Psa 73:16-22. The phrase until the pit be digged is derived from the method of hunting wild beasts by digging a pit into which they might fall and be taken. See the notes at Psa 7:15.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Psa 94:13
Until the pit be digged for the ungodly.
The retributive doom of the wicked
I. It is terrible; it is a pit; conveying the idea–
1. Of darkness; no sunlight.
2. Confinement; enclosed all around.
3. Of desolation; no society.
II. It is preparing. The pit is being digged, it is in process, not completed. Who is digging it? Not the Almighty, but the sinner himself. Deeper and deeper it becomes with every transgression he commits. (Homilist.)
Fuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell
Verse 13. That thou mayest give him rest] He whom God instructs is made wise unto salvation; and he who is thus taught has rest in his soul, and peace and confidence in adversity.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
For their present and short troubles prepare them for, and lead them to, true rest and blessedness, whilst the seeming felicities of the wicked make way for those tremendous judgments which God hath prepared for them.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity,…. Or “evil” c; or “in the evil days”, as the Arabic version; for through teaching men under afflictions, they become tranquil and quiet in them; they yield the peaceable fruits of righteousness to them; such men patiently bear them; and quietly submit to the will of God in them, and are still, and know that he is God, that does all things well and wisely: moreover, the Lord does not always chasten his people; when he has taught them by his rod, and the affliction has answered its end, he gives them rest or intermission from those days of affliction: God does not always suffer the rod of the wicked, or persecution, to be upon the lot of the righteous; he gives his churches rest at times: in all ages there have been some intervals of respite; and after the slaying of the witnesses, and their rising, there will be no more of those days of adversity; but the
times of refreshing, or rest, will come, which will make up the spiritual reign of Christ; and there remains a “rest”, or “sabbatism”, for the people of God, which will last a thousand years; and, after that, an eternal rest in heaven, which the light afflictions of the saints here are working, and are the means of making them meet for it: “until the pit be digged for the wicked”; hell, the pit of destruction, the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels: this pit and lake is dug and prepared by the sovereign will and unchangeable purpose and decree of God, for all wicked and Christless sinners; particularly for the beast and false prophet, and his followers, who shall be cast into it, and be tormented in it day and night, and have no rest; while the saints they here persecuted will be in the greatest repose, and utmost felicity; and when it will appear who are the blessed and happy persons, and who not.
c “mali”, Pagninus, Montanus, Piscator, Cocceius, Gejerus, Michaelis.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
By evil days, or days of evil, the Psalmist might thus mean the everlasting destruction which awaits the ungodly, whom God has spared for a certain interval. Or his words may be expounded as signifying, that the man is blessed who has learned to be composed and tranquil under trials. The rest intended would then be that of an inward kind, enjoyed by the believer even during the storms of adversity; and the scope of the passage would be, that the truly happy man is he who has so far profited, by the word of God, as to sustain the assault of evils from without, with peace and composure. But as it is added, whilst (28) the pit is digged for the wicked, it would seem necessary, in order to bring out the opposition contained in the two members of the sentence, to suppose that the Psalmist rather commends the wisdom of those who reckon that God afflicts them with a view to saving them from destruction, and bringing them eventually to a happy issue. It was necessary to state this second ground of comfort, because our hearts cannot fail to be affected with the most intense grief when we see the wicked triumph, and no Divine restraint put upon them. The Psalmist meets the temptation by appropriately reminding us that the wicked are left upon earth, just as a dead body which is stretched out upon a bed, till its grave be dug. Here believers are warned that, if they would preserve their constancy, they must mount their watchtower, as Habakkuk says, (Hab 2:1) and take a view in the distance of God’s judgments. They shall see worldly men rioting in worldly delights, and, if they extend their view no farther, they will give way to impatience. But it would moderate their grief, would they only remember that those houses which are nominally appropriated to the living, are, in fact, only granted to the dead, until their grave be digged; and that, though they remain upon earth, they are already devoted to destruction. (29)
(28) In our English Bible it is “ until the pit be digged:” on which Hammond, who gives the same translation as Calvin, comments as follows: — “The rendering of עד, until, in this place, may much disturb the sense, and make it believed that the rest מימי רע, from the evil days, i e. , from persecution, (see Eph 5:16,) which God gives to good men, is to continue till the pit be digged for the ungodly, i e. , till the measure of their sins be filled up, and so destruction be ready for them: whereas, the contrary of this is evident, that either the destruction of the wicked is first, and the quiet and rest of the good (oppressed by them) a natural effect of that, and so subsequent to it; or that both of them are of the same date, at once ‘tribulation to them that trouble you, and to you who are troubled rest,’ 2Th 1:6. And this is evidently the meaning of it here, and so will be discerned, if only the אד be rendered dum , whilst, (as it is elsewhere used, Jon 4:2, אד היותי, ‘whilst I was,’ Job 1:16, אד זה מדבר, ‘whilst he was speaking,’) for then thus it will run very fitly, ‘That thou mayest give him rest — whilst the pit is digged —’” Horsley reads the verse —
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To produce ease for him out of the days of adversity, Whilst the pit is digging for the impious.”
(29) “ Que les maisons qui sont destinees aux vivans, pour un peu de temps sont bien concedees aux morts cependant qu’on leur fait leur fosse; et qu’en ceste facon ceux qui neantmoins sont destinez a perdition, demeurent en vie,” etc. — Fr.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
13. Rest from the days of adversity Exemption and safety from the fatal calamities which shall overtake the wicked.
Until the pit be digged Whilst the pit shall be digged, etc. So the particle usually rendered until is sometimes used, as in 1Sa 14:19; Job 1:18. On the sense of the passage, compare Psa 91:8
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Psa 94:13 That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.
Ver. 13. That thou mayest give him rest ] Here usually, but hereafter certainly. Mors aerumnarum requies was Cbaucer’s motto; Those that die in the Lord shall rest from their labours. Meanwhile they are chastened of the Lord that they may not be condemned with the world, 1Co 11:32 .
Until the pit be digged for the wicked
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
the wicked = a wicked one. Same word as Psa 94:3.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
mayest: Isa 26:20, Isa 26:21, Hab 3:16, 2Co 4:17, 2Co 4:18, 2Th 1:7, 2Th 1:8, Heb 4:9, Rev 14:13
until the pit: Psa 9:15, Psa 55:23, Jer 18:20, Jer 18:22, 2Pe 2:9, 2Pe 3:3-7, Rev 6:10, Rev 6:11, Rev 11:18
Reciprocal: 2Sa 7:14 – I will Psa 7:15 – and is Psa 118:18 – chastened Psa 119:71 – good Ecc 7:14 – but Mat 11:28 – and I Act 9:31 – the churches 1Co 11:32 – we are