Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 10:15

15. Break thou the arm of the wicked, and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none e.

Or, Thou wilst break. For it may be either a prayer or a prophecy.

(i. e.) His strength, the instrument of violence and mischief.

Search for it so strictly and punish these wicked Atheists so severely. (i. e.) No such wickedness, to wit, undiscovered and unpunished, or indeed left in the world, or at least, in the Church. Which might happen because those wicked men here spoken of should be generally either convinced or rooted out, and the rest should be warned and reformed by their Example, and so this lewdness should cease out of the land, as the phrase is Ezek. 23. 48. That is said to be sought for and not found, which is utterly lost, as Iob 20. 7, 8. Psal. 37. 36. Revel. 16. 20. and 18. 21. And this phrase is used both of good men, whose sins are taken away by God's grace and mercy, pardoning and purging them away, and of wicked men in the sence above mentioned.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1+ letters]al. [illegible: 1+ letters]. 9. & 3[illegible: 1+ letters]. 17.