Ομαρτεκ XIX.—Ver. 1. Here only in N.T. (after the ruin of sinners, as Ps. civ. 35) the liturgical hallelujah of the psalter and synagogue worship occurs. In vv. I, 3, and 6 it stands as usual first, an invocation=‘‘praise Jah”; but in ver. 4 it is responsive, as in Pss. civ.-v., cxv.-cxvii. (the latter being sung at the passover; cf. Apoc. xix. 7).
Ver. 2. ἔφθειρεν, as the first Babylon had been denounced for her depraving influence by Jeremiah (li.) xxviii. 25, τὸ ὄρος τὸ διεφθαρµένον τὸ διαφθεῖρον πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν. The impatient cry of vi. 10 has now been answered. God “has avenged the blood (z.e., the murder) of his servants at her hand (i.e., on her),”’ the LXX rendering (e.g., in 2 Kings ix. 7, καὶ ἐκδικήσεις τὰ αἵματα τῶν δούλων Κυρίου ἐκ χειρὸς ᾿Ιεζάβελ) of the Heb. idiom JY OF Dj23=to exact punish-. ment from a murderer. The idea is sub-
stantially that of Ps. Sol. iv. 9, viii. 29- 31. As ἀληθ. καὶ δικ. are a characteris-
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1, Ps. Sol. ii. 41. Ezek. i. 24.