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Psalms 89:3
I have made a covenant with My chosen, I have sworn unto David, My servant, the Lord Himself assuring Him with a solemn oath,
I have made a covenant with My chosen, I have sworn unto David, My servant, the Lord Himself assuring Him with a solemn oath,
Verse Psalms 89:3. _I HAVE MADE A COVENANT WITH MY CHOSEN_] I have made a covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and renewed it with Moses and Joshua in reference to the Israelites in general: but I...
I HAVE MADE A COVENANT WITH MY CHOSEN - With my chosen one; that is, with David. The original is in the singular number, though by the Septuagint, and the Vulgate, and by Luther, it is rendered in the...
Psalms 89 God's Faithfulness: His Oath-bound Covenant with David _ 1. Jehovah's faithfulness (Psalms 89:1)_ 2. His covenant with David (Psalms 89:19) 3. The ruin and desolation ...
LXXXIX. THE COVENANT WITH DAVID. The Ps. may be divided thus: Psalms 89:1. The promise made to David (2 Samuel 7). Yahweh is all-powerful, so that He can, faithful so that He will, fulfil His word. Ps...
MADE. solemnized. COVENANT. See 2 Samuel 7, where Jehovah, being the only party, the covenant is _unconditional,_ and. a "promise" among "the sure mercies of David", &c. But it looks beyond David. SW...
The Psalmist states his theme: the lovingkindness and faithfulness of Jehovah, which he is persuaded can never fail; and the promise of eternal dominion to the house of David....
These verses contain the sum of the promise to David and his seed (2 Samuel 7:5 ff.) which is expanded in Psalms 89:19 ff. It is in relation to this promise in particular that the poet intends to sing...
I HAVE MADE A COVENANT WITH MY CHOSEN— Mudge reads this and the following verse in a parenthesis, and supposes the sense of the 2nd to be continued to the 5th. _Thy faithfulness shalt thou establish i...
PSALMS 89 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE The Covenant with David Contrasted with the Present Dishonour of David's Heir. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 89:1-2, The Keynotes of the psalmJehovah's Kindness and Faithfu...
I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant, I HAVE MADE A COVENANT WITH MY CHOSEN, I HAVE SWORN UNTO DAVID, MY SERVANT, THY SEED WILL I ESTABLISH FOR EVER. The ground...
We have here another national and historical Ps., written when the Jewish kingdom and its king had fallen very low before their enemies, contrasting the promises made to David with their seeming lack...
Psalms 73:89 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ MAKE YOUR *KINGDOM COME SOON! PSALMS 89 Make your *kingdom come soon. Make people obey your rules in the earth as they do in *heaven ...
I HAVE SWORN. — The prophetic passage (2 Samuel 7:12, _seq._) is in the poet’s mind....
_[Psalms 89:4]_ כָּרַ֣תִּֽי בְ֭רִית לִ בְחִירִ֑י נִ֝שְׁבַּ֗עְתִּי...
Psalms 89:1 THE foundation of this psalm is the promise in 2 Samuel 7:1 which guaranteed the perpetuity of the Davidic kingdom. Many of the characteristic phrases of the prophecy recur here- _ e.g.,_...
NO GOD LIKE OUR GOD Psalms 89:1 To understand this psalm we must turn to 2 Samuel 7:1, where God guaranteed that David's kingdom should be continued to his descendants. Nathan's words are quoted in P...
Taken as a whole, this song is one of the finest in the collection as a revelation of how the man of faith is compelled to view circumstances of calamity. In a poem of great beauty he first sets forth...
(d) I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant, (d) The prophet shows what the promise of God was, on which he grounded his faith....
_Turn not man away, &c. Suffer him not quite to perish from thee, since thou art pleased to call upon him to be converted to thee. (Challoner) --- God wills not the death of the sinner. (Worthington)...
Nothing can be more beautiful or interesting than the transition which is here made from Ethan to Jehovah himself. The sacred writer had determined to make known God's mercies; but in so doing, the Lo...
3_I have made a covenant with my chosen. _(524) The more effectually to confirm himself and all the godly in the faith of the Divine promise, he introduces God himself as speaking and sanctioning, by...
Psalms 89. We have seen that Psalms 88 puts Israel in the presence of Jehovah (when guilty of having been unfaithful to Him), under the judgment of Jehovah, with the sense of wrath, yet in faith in Je...
I HAVE MADE A COVENANT WITH MY CHOSEN,.... Not with Abraham, as the Targum expresses it: but with David, as in the following clause; not David, literally understood, though he was chosen of the Lord t...
I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant, Ver. 3. _I have made a covenant with my chosen_] _i.e._ With Christ (who is God's elect one, Isa 42:1), and in him with all...
_I have made a covenant with my chosen_ With David, whom I have chosen to the kingdom. _Thy seed will I establish for ever_, &c. I will perpetuate the kingdom to thy posterity; which was promised upon...
1-4 Though our expectations may be disappointed, yet God's promises are established in the heavens, in his eternal counsels; they are out of the reach of opposers in hell and earth. And faith in the b...
WITH MY CHOSEN; with David, whom I have chosen to the kingdom....
Psalms 89:3 made H3772 (H8804) covenant H1285 chosen H972 sworn H7650 (H8738) servant H5650 David H1732...
Psalms 89:1. _I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations. For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness...
Psalms 89:1. _I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations. For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness...
Psalms 89:1. Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite. That is to say, an instructive Psalm, written by or for one Ethan, one of the great singers of David's day. He sings of the covenant, the covenant with Davi...
CONTENTS: Joy over and praise of God's greatness. Complaint of the seeming failure of the covenant and prayer for redress. CHARACTERS: God, David, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: Though we may find it hard to...
The time of this ode is gathered from the text; it was written after Rahab, the proud Egyptian kingdom, Psalms 87:4, was broken to pieces, Psalms 89:10; and after the hedge, the wall of Jerusalem, was...
_I will sing of the mercies of the Lord for ever._ A MAJESTIC SONG This psalm is one of the very choicest songs in the night. Midst a stream of troubled thoughts there stands a fair island of rescue...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 89:1. This is a community lament, but with a distinctive flavor. The people celebrate the Davidic kingship as God’s special gift to his people, but they also mourn the distr...
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“_Maschil_,” an instruction, a didactic poem. _“Of Ethan the Ezrahite_,” “one of the four sons of Mahol, whose wisdom was excelled by Solomon (1 Kings 4:31). There is li...
EXPOSITION At first sight, a psalm of praise; but, in reality, one of expostulation and complaint. The praises of God are sung in the opening section (Psalms 89:1); they culminated in the Davidical co...
I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations. For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou est...
1 Kings 8:16; 2 Samuel 23:5; 2 Samuel 3:9; 2 Samuel 7:10; Acts 2:30;...
THE PSALM OF WORSHIPFUL PRAISE Psalms 89:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS By way of introduction we shall take the first two verses of our study and see what God will give us. Let us quote to you these verses i...
Chosen — With David; whom I have chosen to the kingdom....