What is the context?
Trusting people are compared with enduring Zion, and God’s care with mountains around Jerusalem. The security image leads directly to the problem of wicked rule.
The prayer wants oppression restrained so that the righteous do not reach toward injustice themselves. It then asks good for the upright and judgment on crooked ways.
The desired peace includes moral faithfulness. Stability is not permission to copy the wrongdoing that threatens the community.
How is this passage commonly understood?
Wesley explains the wicked scepter through oppressive power and the danger of taking wrongful measures for relief. The BSB’s closing banishment should remain the printed judgment rather than a license for private expulsion.
What is our position?
We don't have a position on this passage yet. When our study reaches a conclusion the text supports, it will appear here.
Where can I study this further?
No deeper study linked yet.