VERSE 2.
How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons ••f the wicked? Selah.
THese words are a Prosopope••cal speech, where the Lord is brought in Reasoning, Reproving and Expostulating the case with the unrighteous Judges of those times. Such is the Pride of great ones,* 1.1 that they cannot bear a reproof from men: and there∣fore the Prophet to procure the more Authority to what should be spoken, brings in God himself re∣proving them: hence some Interpreters conceive that for explanation sake the word [saying] may fitly be added to the end of this first Verse: God standeth in the Congregation of the mighty, he judgeth amongst the Gods, Saying, How long will ye judge unjustly? q. d. Since I am present and President amongst you, how long will ye favour the wicked, and plead their cause against the innocent?
In this Verse we have 1. The sin reproved in ge∣neral, and that is Vnjust judgement; a sin most proper and peculiar to Judges. To be covetous,