PSALM 147 THE ARGUMENT This Psalm may seem, from PSALMS 147:2,13, to have been composed by some holy prophet after the return of Israel from the Babylonish captivity. It containeth an ample celebration of God's praises, both for common mercies and for special favors. The prophet exhorteth the people... [ Continue Reading ]
BUILD UP JERUSALEM; it is the Lord's own doing, and not man s. THE OUTCASTS; or, _the banished_, who were carried captives out of their own land, and dispersed in divers strange countries.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE BROKEN IN HEART, either with the sense of their sins, or with their sorrows and grievous calamities. He seems to speak peculiarly of the captive Israelites now returned.... [ Continue Reading ]
He telleth the number of the stars, which no man can do, GENESIS 22:17. For those thousand and twenty-five which astrononers number, are only such as are most distinctly visible to the eye, and most considerable for their influences. HE CALLETH THEM ALL BY THEIR NAMES: this signifies, 1. That He ex... [ Continue Reading ]
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Which he mentions, partly, because they were most contemptible, especially to the Jews, to whom they were unclean and forbidden for food; partly, because they are greedy and voracious; and partly, because they are not only neglected by men, but also forsaken by their dams as soon as ever they can fl... [ Continue Reading ]
As if he needed either the one or the other for the accomplishment of his designs.... [ Continue Reading ]
That believingly and patiently expect and seek relief and happiness from God alone, and from his mere grace and mercy, and not from any creature, nor from their own merits.... [ Continue Reading ]
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Thy strength consists not in thy walls, and gates, and bars, but in his protection.... [ Continue Reading ]
In thy borders; in all thy land, even to its utmost borders, which are most liable to the incursion of enemies.... [ Continue Reading ]
HIS COMMANDMENT; which is sufficient without any instruments to execute whatsoever pleaseth him, either in works of nature or of providence. His word runneth very swiftly; the thing is done without delay or difficulty.... [ Continue Reading ]
SNOW LIKE WOOL; not only in colour, and shape, and softness, but also in use, keeping the fruits of the earth warm. HOAR-FROST like ashes; in colour and smallness of parts, as also in its burning quality.... [ Continue Reading ]
HIS ICE; either, 1. Pieces of ice, which God may be said to CAST FORTH, or _to cast down_, because he sendeth it, and ofttimes suddenly; or, 2. Great hailstones, which are of an icy nature and substance, and which are very properly CAST FORTH OR CAST DOWN out of the clouds, and that like morsels o... [ Continue Reading ]
HIS WIND; the southern or some other warm wind sent with commission to dissolve the ice. THE WATERS FLOW; the rivers return to their course which before were bound up by, or tuned into, ice.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE SHOWETH HIS WORD; he fully declared his mind and will by revelation and in his word. UNTO JACOB; to the children of Jacob or Israel, and to them alone, as it follows.... [ Continue Reading ]
He left all others to their own native darkness and blindness, and to those dim discoveries of God and of themselves which they had from the light of nature.... [ Continue Reading ]