“So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.”
The final vision that all people will fear and declare the work of God, and consider what God has done articulates the universal acknowledgment of divine justice and power that results from witnessing the judgment of the wicked. The fear that comes upon people is reverent awe at God's power. The declaration of God's work indicates that what God has done will be the subject of testimony and witness. This verse closes the psalm with the affirmation that divine judgment becomes the occasion for universal recognition of God's sovereignty.
Church Fathers on Psalms 64:8
1. Though chiefly the Lord's Passion is noticed in this Psalm, neither could the Martyrs have been strong, unless they had beheld Him, that first suffered; nor such things would they have endured in suffering, as He did, unless they had hoped for such things in the Resurrection as He had showed of Himself: but your Holiness knows that our Head is our Lord Jesus Christ, and that all that cleave unto Him are the members of Him the Head ....And let no one say, that now-a-days in…
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