“Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.”
The psalmist declares 'But their swords will pierce their own hearts, and their bows will be broken.' The principle of poetic justice manifests: the weapons of the wicked will be turned against them. The promise that their bows will be broken suggests the reversal of the violence they intended. This verse establishes that wickedness is ultimately self-defeating.
Church Fathers on Psalms 37:15
On the first part of the psalm. 1. With terror do they hear of the coming of the last day, who will not be secure by living well: and who fain would live ill, long. But it was for useful purposes that God willed that day to remain unknown; that the heart may be ever ready to expect that of which it knows it is to come, but knows not when it is to come. Seeing, however, that our Lord Jesus Christ was sent to us to be our “Master,” He said, that “of the day not even the Son of…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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