“They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.”
The portrait of the wicked closing their hearts and speaking with arrogant pride establishes spiritual hardness and prideful defiance as characteristic of the enemies. The closed hearts suggest that the enemies cannot be moved by reason or appeal to conscience. The arrogant speech suggests that the enemies boast confidently in their power to harm the speaker. This verse emphasizes that the enemies are not merely unfortunate or mistaken but spiritually corrupt.
Church Fathers on Psalms 17:10
A prayer of David himself. 1. This prayer must be assigned to the Person of the Lord, with the addition of the Church, which is His body. 2. “Hear My righteousness, O God, consider My supplication” Psalm 16:1. “Hearken unto My prayer, not in deceitful lips:” not going forth to You in deceitful lips. “Let My judgment from Your countenance go forth” Psalm 16:2. From the enlightening of the knowledge of You, let Me judge truth. Or at least, let My judgment go forth, not in…
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