O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. Ver. 1. _O come, let us sing unto the Lord_] It is thought by this beginning that this psalm was not penned by David for private use, but for public assemblies, to be sung by the congregation on the sabbath... [ Continue Reading ]
Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms. Ver. 2. _Let us come before his presence_] Heb. prevent his face, be there with the first. "Let us go speedily … I will go also," Zechariah 8:21. Let praise wait for God in Sion, Psalms 65:1. Rabbi Gaon... [ Continue Reading ]
_For the LORD [is] a great God, and a great King above all gods._ Ver. 3. _For the Lord is a great God_] Understand it of Christ, as the apostle also does, Heb 3:4 1 Corinthians 10:4 _ Above all gods_] Whether reputed so, or deputed, as kings.... [ Continue Reading ]
In his hand [are] the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills [is] his also. Ver. 4. _In his hand are the deep places_] Heb. searching, that is, much searched after, but found to be unsearchable. _ The strength of the hills_] Heb. The heights, such as will sport a bird to get to the to... [ Continue Reading ]
The sea [is] his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry [land]. Ver. 5. _The sea is his, &c._] Canute confuted his flatterers (who told him that all things in his dominions were at his beck and check) by laying his command on the sea to come up no higher into his land, but it obeyed him not.... [ Continue Reading ]
O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker. Ver. 6. _O come, let us worship and bow down_] With our whole bodies prostrate on the ground, our hands and feet stretched out (Kimchi). The Jews' gesture of adoration at this day is the bowing forward of their bodies, for... [ Continue Reading ]
For he [is] our God; and we [are] the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice, Ver. 7. _The people of his pasture_] Whom he turns not out into commons and fallows, but feeds among lilies, Song of Solomon 2:16 . _ And the sheep of his hand_] His cades brou... [ Continue Reading ]
Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, [and] as [in] the day of temptation in the wilderness: Ver. 8. _Harden not your heart_] By unbelief, and the deceitfulness of sin, Hebrews 3:12,13, which gradually affirms the heart against God. _ As in the provocation_] As your fathers did at Massah a... [ Continue Reading ]
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work. Ver. 9. _When your fathers tempted me_] Ten times, all along the wilderness, Numbers 14:22, though _ They saw my work_] Both mercies and judgments, Psalms 98:8, yet they were refractory and unmalleable.... [ Continue Reading ]
Forty years long was I grieved with [this] generation, and said, It [is] a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways: Ver. 10. _Was I grieved_] _Litigavi, vel cum taedio pertuli._ That do err in their hearts] Wandering, though not so wide as to miss of hell. _ They have n... [ Continue Reading ]
Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest. Ver. 11. _Unto whom I sware_] When put past all patience, _Patientia laesa fit furor._ Should not enter, &c.] Thus God sweareth _cum reticentia,_ to show how greatly he was incensed.... [ Continue Reading ]