“There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.”
The sudden eruption of divine judgment—that God will scatter the evildoers and they will be put to shame—announces the abrupt reversal that the righteous await and expect. The scattering of the evildoers represents the dissolution of their community and power; they who gathered as a united force against God's people will be dispersed like chaff before the wind. The shame that overtakes them represents the public exposure of their folly: the world will see that their apparent power was illusory and that their opposition to God was futile. This verse shifts the psalm from lament at human wickedness to confidence in God's coming judgment, establishing that divine justice will vindicate the oppressed and scatter their tormentors.
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