“Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah.”
The final affirmation that people will know that God rules in Jacob and to the ends of the earth establishes the ultimate goal of the psalm: that God's sovereignty be made manifest through the vindication of the righteous. The reference to Jacob indicates the covenantal people; the manifestation of God's power will be known through what happens to God's people. The extension to the ends of the earth suggests that the vindication will have universal significance; all creation will witness God's power. This verse closes the psalm with the assertion that the psalmist's deliverance participates in the cosmic manifestation of God's rule.
Church Fathers on Psalms 59:13
The First Part. 1. As the Scripture is wont to set mysteries of the Psalms on the titles, and to deck the brow of a Psalm with the high announcement of a Mystery, in order that we that are about to go in may know (when as it were upon the door-post we have read what within is doing) either of whom the house is, or who is the owner of that estate: so also in this Psalm there has been written a title, of a title. For it has, “At the end, corrupt not for David himself unto the…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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