Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 59:13

13. 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.

By degrees; and after thou hast made them to wander about, v. 11:

To wit, in the Land of the Living any more: As this Phrase is frequently understood; whereof divers instances have been given.

Experimentally, and to their cost.

Over and above them: That though Saul be King, yet God is his Superior in Power and Authority, and all things among us shall be disposed, not as it pleaseth Saul, which his Parasites are always suggesting to him, but as God will; and therefore I shall be preserved, and in fit time Crowned, in spight of all that Saul or his Forces can do against me.

In the Land, and over the People of Israel, whose King and Governour he is in a peculiar manner.

Or, and unto: The Conjunction, and, being oft understood, as hath been noted before. These words may be referred; Either, 1. To God's Ruling, let them know, that God Ruleth, not onely in Iacob: But also to the Ends of the Earth. Or, 2: To mens knowing, let them, or let men know even to the Ends of the Earth, that God raleth in Iacob: Let thy Judgments be so manifest and dreadful in the Destruction of thy wicked Enemies, that not onely Israelites, but even the remote Nations of the World, may see it and acknowledge thy Power and Providence in it.

Either of this Land: Or rather, of the World. The Sence is, That by those Eminent and extraordinary Discoveries of thy Power and Wisdom, and Justice, it may be Evident, both to them, and to all that hear of it, that thou art no Puny or Inferior, or Topical God, like the God's of Heathens, whose Government is confined to a narrow Compass, but the high and mighty God, and the great Ruler of the whole World.