Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 34:16

16. The face of the LORD is against them that do evil , to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth .

(i. e.) His Anger, oft called his Fa[illegible: 1+ letters]e, as Levit. 17. 10. and 20. 5. Ier. 44. 11. Lam. 4. 16. because Anger discovers it self in the Face.

(i. e.) Whose common Course and study, and business it is to do Evil: For else [illegible: 1 word] is not a just man upon Earth, that doth good and sinneth not, Eccles. 7 20.

Heb. They cry, to wit, the righteous, as is manifest both from the Nature of the thing, and from v. 15. where they are so called, and with which this Verse is to be continued, the 16th. Verse coming in by way of parenthesis, as is very usual in many places of Scripture.

m Utterly to deprive both them and their Children, of that Worldly Happiness; which is the only thing that they desire, and seek, by their wicked Courses.

Marginal references: Jer. 44. 11. Am. 9. 4.