Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 89:52
Blessed — Let thine enemies reproach thee and thy promises concerning the sending of the Messiah, I will heartily bless and praise thee for them, and encourage myself with them.
Blessed — Let thine enemies reproach thee and thy promises concerning the sending of the Messiah, I will heartily bless and praise thee for them, and encourage myself with them.
Verse Psalms 89:52. _BLESSED_ BE _THE LORD FOR EVERMORE._] Let him treat us as he will, his name deserves eternal praises: our affliction, though great, is less than we have deserved. This verse con...
BLESSED BE THE LORD FOR EVERMORE - Praise to God always. So Chrysostom was accustomed to say, even when driven out as an exile and a wanderer, “Blessed be God for everything.” The passage here denotes...
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...
The doxology marks the close of Book iii. Cp. Psalms 41:13; Psalms 72:18-19; Psalms 106:48. In P.B.V. it is joined, somewhat incongruously, to the preceding verse. But though it is no part of the orig...
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...
Blessed be the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen. BLESSED BE THE LORD FOR EVERMORE. AMEN, AND AMEN - Doxology closing the third book of psalms. The first book contains the Davidic Yahweh psalms. The...
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...
The doxology marks the close of Book 3: cp. Psalms 41:13; Psalms 72:18; Psalms 72:19....
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 ...
_[Psalms 89:53]_ בָּר֖וּךְ יְהוָ֥ה לְ֝ עֹולָ֗ם אָ֘מֵ֥ן...
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.,_...
“A CONSUMING FIRE” Psalms 89:38 Here the psalmist falls into expostulation and lament. Whether he alludes to the time when Jerusalem was taken by Shishak in the days of Rehoboam, 1 Kings 14:25, or wh...
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...
The Psalmist cannot conclude, however trying the personal exercises of the soul may be, without taking confidence in divine faithfulness, and proclaiming Jehovah's glory in the contemplation of it. At...
52._Blessed be Jehovah for ever! _I am surprised why some interpreters should imagine, that this verse was added by some transcriber in copying the book, affirming, that it does not correspond with th...
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...
BLESSED BE THE LORD FOR EVERMORE,.... In this world, and in the world to come, as the Targum; for reproaches and afflictions for Christ's sake, since they work together for good; as Job blessed the Lo...
Blessed [be] the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen. Ver. 52. _Blessed be the Lord, &c._] _sc._ For a Christ; or for adversity as well as for prosperity; and this not formally and slightly, but earnes...
_Blessed be the Lord for evermore_ Let thine enemies reproach thee, and thy promises concerning the sending of the Messiah, and the deliverance of thy people; I do, and will, heartily bless and praise...
LAMENT AND COMFORT...
Blessed be the Lord forevermore. Amen, and Amen. That was the end of the Messiah's vicarious work, blessing and honor and glory, of which all believers are partakers, here in time and hereafter in ete...
38-52 Sometimes it is not easy to reconcile God's providences with his promises, yet we are sure that God's works fulfil his word. When the great Anointed One, Christ himself, was upon the cross, God...
Let thine enemies reproach thee, and thy promises concerning the sending of the Messiah, and the deliverance of thy people by his hand; I do and will heartily bless and praise thee for them, and encou...
Psalms 89:52 Blessed H1288 (H8803) LORD H3068 forevermore H5769 Amen H543 Amen H543 Blessed -...
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...
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 Timothy 1:17; Habakkuk 3:17; Matthew 6:13; Nehemiah 9:5; Psalm