“And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.”
In the greatness of your majesty you threw down those who opposed you. You unleashed your burning anger; it consumed them like stubble. The burning anger of God — not human irritability but the divine response to persistent, catastrophic injustice — is described as consuming fire. The image of stubble consumed by fire is elsewhere used for the judgment of the wicked: Isaiah 5:24 says as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay. The enemies who opposed God are not merely defeated; they are consumed — the completeness of the judgment is proportional to the completeness of the opposition. The greatness of majesty that consumes stubble is the same majesty that the song will shortly declare no one can compare with.
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