Psalms 14:5

This verse is commonly explained to refer to the future, the perfect tense expressing the certain assurance of the Psalmist that judgement will be executed. Cp. Psalms 36:12. But it is more natural to refer it to the past. -There" points emphatically to some signal instance in which panic terror and overwhelming calamity overtook -the workers of iniquity." If Psalms 14:4 may be understood of the oppression of Israel in Egypt, Psalms 14:5 will refer to the overthrow of the Egyptians in the Red Sea (Exodus 14:24-25). Psalms 53:5 adds where no fear was, no natural cause for alarm.

for God&c. Present among them to defend them. -The generation" (see on Psalms 12:7) -of the righteous" is synonymous with -my people;" either the nation, which might be so described in respect of its calling, and in contrast to its oppressors: or the godly part of it. Cp. Psalms 118:15.