The Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 72:9

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

They that dwell in the wilderness shall how before him (for the meaning here assigned to tsiyyim ( ציּים), see Psalms 74:14; Isaiah 23:13). The wild tribes of the Syrian and Arabian deserts are probably intended (comp.

Isaiah 60:6, Isaiah 60:7). And his enemies shall lick the dust; i.e; prostrate themselves at his feet with their faces in the dust. See the Assyrian representations of Oriental prostrations.

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