Psalms 55:23

shalt bring them down Namely, the foes, who are still in the Psalmist's mind: their end is the pit of the grave: a premature death awaits bloodthirsty and deceitful men, whom God abhors (Psalms 5:6). Cp. Psalms 37:35 f; Psalms 109:8, and many passages which speak of the penal death of the wicked.

But I&c. But as for me, I will trust in thee. The same God who destroys the wicked is the object of the Psalmist's trust: and in truth the extermination of the wicked is but the converse of the reward and exaltation of the righteous: the one is the necessary preliminary to the other: and the earth, be it remembered, is the stage upon which the Psalmist expects to see the dénouementof the drama of life, the vindication of God's moral government of the world. See Introd. p. xci ff.