| Geneva Study Bible Shall {f} they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God. (f) They not only think to escape punishment, but the more wicked they are, the more impudent they grow. Wesley's Notes 56:7 Escape - Shall they secure themselves by injurious and malicious practices. The people - These who are mine enemies. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 7. Shall they escape? &c.-or better, "Their escape is by iniquity." cast . people-humble those who so proudly oppose Thy servant. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 56:1-7 Be merciful unto me, O God. This petition includes all the good for which we come to throne of grace. If we obtain mercy there, we need no more to make us happy. It implies likewise our best plea, not our merit, but God's mercy, his free, rich mercy. We may flee to, and trust the mercy of God, when surrounded on all sides by difficulties and dangers. His enemies were too hard for him, if God did not help him. He resolves to make God's promises the matter of his praises, and so we have reason to make them. As we must not trust an arm of flesh when engaged for us, so we must not be afraid of an arm of flesh when stretched out against us. The sin of sinners will never be their security. Who knows the power of God's anger; how high it can reach, how forcibly it can strike? | 
