5. staff--not the scepter
(Ps 2:9),
but the staff with which one strikes others, as he is speaking of more
tyrants than one
(Isa 9:4; 10:24; 14:29)
[MAURER].
rulers--tyrants, as the parallelism "the wicked" proves (compare
see on
Isa 13:2).
JFB.
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