These words are thought by some to be spoken by the Lord to the nations of the world, to "cease from war", as the Targum renders the words or from going up any more against Jerusalem, as Jarchi interprets them and that they were spoken to them before the breaking of their bows as Aben Ezra observes or that they are an exhortation to them to cease from their evil works, and know that the Lord is God, and has power to raise up and to make low which, is Kimchi's sense of the words: but they are rather a continuation of the church's address to the fearful among them, as before to behold the works of the Lord, so here to hearken to what he says, as follows, "be still" not that they should be like sticks and stones, stupid, indolent, and unconcerned at the commotions that were in the earth, and be unaffected with the judgments of God, and be wholly silent and inactive but that they should not be fearful, nor fretful and impatient, or restless and tumultuous but be quiet and easy, resigned to the will of God, and live in an assured expectation of the appearance of divine Providence in their layout.
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