Verse 7c only increases the
irony: the gods whose images are adored by their followers have long since
acknowledged that they are no gods at all, and there–fore they throw themselves
down before the only true God, Yhwh, who, as these nothing–gods hymnically
acknowledge before Yhwh in v. 9 in a kind of “self–undivinizing,” has proven
himself to be the Most High over all the earth and above all gods.26
Thus Yhwh’s theophany undivinizes the gods and frees the “servants of idols”
from their dependence on “worthless idols,” “nothing–gods,” but also denies
them the possibility of appealing to these gods, which are no such thing, on
behalf of their actions (including both social and political acts). (Frank-Lothar
Hossfeld and Erich Zenger, Psalms 2: A
Commentary on Psalms 51-100 [trans.
Linda M. Maloney; Hermeneia—a Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible;
Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2005], 475)
