Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 125:2
As the mountains are round about Jerusalem; by which it was defended both from stormy winds and from the assaults of its enemies.
As the mountains are round about Jerusalem; by which it was defended both from stormy winds and from the assaults of its enemies.
Verse Psalms 125:2. _AS THE MOUNTAINS_ ARE _ROUND ABOUT JERUSALEM_] Jerusalem, according to _Sandys_, was situated on a rocky mountain every way to be ascended, except a little on the north, with ste...
AS THE MOUNTAINS ARE ROUND ABOUT JERUSALEM - Hebrew, “Jerusalem - the mountains are round about her.” Jerusalem, except on the north, is encompassed with hills or mountains, so that although the city...
PSALM 120-134 The Psalms of Degrees Fifteen brief Psalms follow, called songs of degrees, or, ascents. They were in all probability used by Israel going up to Jerusalem three times a year to celebrat...
CXXV. YAHWEH'S PROTECTIVE CARE OF ISRAEL. Yahweh will not allow heathen to rule over Israel, because this would tempt Jews to please their masters by adopting heathen usages....
DISCOURSE: 717 TRUST IN THE LORD Psalms 125:1. _They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever. As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the L...
AS THE MOUNTAINS ARE ROUND, &C.— This allusion to the situation of Jerusalem expresses very properly the divine protection, which defended them on every side from the outrages and insults of their ene...
PSALMS 125 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Trust in Jehovah Encouraged in Presence of the Invader. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 125:1-2, Jerusalem Safe under Jehovah's Protection. Stanza II., Psalms 125:3, The Sce...
As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever. (AS) THE MOUNTAINS (ARE) ROUND ABOUT JERUSALEM, SO THE LORD IS ROUND ABOUT HIS PEOPL...
Jehovah is the bulwark of Israel, but evildoers shall perish. Evidently the nation is under foreign rule: cp. Psalms 125:3....
THE MOUNTAINS] Jerusalem is high, but the hills, such as the Mt. of Olives and the Hill of Evil Counsel, are higher....
AS THE MOUNTAINS. — In the first verse, the _stability_ of the faithful is compared to that of Mount Zion; here their _security_ to that of the city girt by its hills. (On the geographical reference,...
יְֽרוּשָׁלִַ֗ם הָרִים֮ סָבִ֪יב לָ֥הּ וַ֭ יהוָה...
Psalms 125:1 THE references to the topography of Jerusalem in Psalms 125:1 do not absolutely require, though they recommend, the supposition, already mentioned. that this psalm completes a triad which...
THE CHRISTIAN'S FORTRESS Psalms 124:1-8; Psalms 125:1-5 Here are three instances of escaped peril. In Psalms 124:3 is an allusion to Korah and his company; see Numbers 16:32-33. Why are we spared...
The pilgrims catch the first glimpse of the city toward which their faces are set. The journey is not ended, but from some vantage ground there in the distance is seen the home of the heart. It is fou...
_Shall. Or "did;" (Calmet) though the future is here well employed. (Berthier) --- The prophet uses both tenses, shewing the certainty of the event. (Worthington) --- It would require some time before...
The sacred writers all delight in using strong images and figures, by which to represent divine things: as in this instance, God's covenant engagements in Christ are compared to strong mountains, the...
_GOD’S ENCOMPASSING_ ‘The Lord is round about His people.’ Psalms 125:2 I. IT IS A BEAUTIFUL CONCEPTION.—Around the chosen city the mountains stand like sentinels, leaving no part without its barri...
Psalms 125. The position of those who trust in Jehovah is celebrated, in virtue of this intervention of Jehovah, who would now protect them for ever, and they abide for ever. Peace would be on Israel....
AS THE MOUNTAINS [ARE] ROUND ABOUT JERUSALEM,.... There was Mount Zion on the side of the north, and the mount of Olives on the east, and other mountains on the other sides of it; so that it was encom...
As the mountains [are] round about Jerusalem, so the LORD [is] round about his people from henceforth even for ever. Ver. 2. _As the mountains are round about Jerusalem_] That is, say some, as the an...
_As the mountains are round about Jerusalem_ Defending it, not only from stormy winds and tempests, the force of which these mountains broke, but from the assaults of its enemies. And such a defence i...
As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, the entire chain of mountains upon several of whose summits the capital was located, SO THE LORD IS ROUND ABOUT HIS PEOPLE FROM HENCEFORTH EVEN FOREVER, a w...
JEHOVAH A SURE DEFENSE AGAINST APOSTASY. A song of degrees, setting forth the manner in which God honors the trust of His people, both by protecting them and by leaving the hypocrites to the doom of...
1-3 All those minds shall be truly stayed, that are stayed on God. They shall be as Mount Zion, firm as it is; a mountain supported by providence, much more as a holy mountain supported by promise. T...
Psalms 125:2 mountains H2022 surround H5439 Jerusalem H3389 LORD H3068 surrounds H5439 people H5971 forever H5704 H5769
Psalms 125:1. _They that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever. As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from...
Psalms 125:1. _They that trust in the LORD shall be us mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever._ What comfort there is in this verse to all who trust in the Lord! We never expect to...
Psalms 125:1. _They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever._ I noticed, in one of the reports of the survey of Palestine, that it is said that, a...
Psalms 125:1. _They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever._ Various conquerors have destroyed the buildings upon Mount Zion, but the mountain it...
CONTENTS: The security of God's people because of His promises, and the jeopardy of the wicked. CHARACTERS: God, Israel. CONCLUSION: There is no gap in the hedge of God's protection which He makes r...
Psalms 125:2. _As the mountains are round about Jerusalem._ See the map, where seven hills are laid down, and others rise at a distance. These hills suggested the idea of divine protection. REFLECTI...
_They that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion._ TRUSTFULNESS I. Trustfulness in its supreme object: “The Lord” (Jeremiah 17:5). II. Trustfulness securing inestimable blessings. 1. Stability...
_So the Lord is round about His people._ THE DIVINE PROTECTION The 125th Psalm is of the returning exiles. They are only about fifty thousand. They have made the difficult journey across the desert s...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 125:1. This psalm assures the Lord’s people that remaining loyal to him really is worthwhile. It is possible that some of Zion’s citizens might become unfaithful, but the Lo...
INTRODUCTION This Psalm belongs most probably to the times after the Captivity, and has been applied, with apparent propriety, to the opposition which Sanballat the Horonite, Geshem the Arabian, and T...
EXPOSITION This a psalm, mainly, of comfort; but with comfort, prayer (Psalms 125:4) and threatening (Psalms 125:5) are blended. God's people are always under God's protection. He will always "be goo...
We're still ascending towards Jerusalem. They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion (Psalms 125:1), The mount upon which Jerusalem was built. which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever ...
Deuteronomy 33:27; Isaiah 4:5; John 10:28; John 10:29; Lamentations