_A.M. 2981. B.C. 1023._ This Psalm is thought to have been composed upon the occasion of David's victories over the neighbouring nations, 2 Samuel 8:1, and the rest which God gave him from all his enemies round about. The style is lofty, and every way worthy of that royal author. With great force o... [ Continue Reading ]
_God is our refuge and strength_ He hath manifested himself to be so in the course of his providence in time past, and he has engaged to be so in time to come, and will not fail to fulfil his engagement. Are we in danger from visible or invisible enemies? God is our refuge, to whom we may flee, and... [ Continue Reading ]
_Therefore will not we fear_ They that, with a holy reverence, fear God, need not, with any amazement, be afraid of any power of earth or hell. _If God be for us, who can be against us?_ It is our duty, it is our privilege to be thus fearless. It is an evidence of a clear conscience, of an upright h... [ Continue Reading ]
_There is a river, the streams whereof make glad the city_ The church, _of God_ Which cheer, refresh, and comfort her, and that at a time when the waters of the sea roar, and foam, and threaten her. He alludes to the brook Kidron, and its two streams, or rivulets, flowing from it, Gihon and Siloah,... [ Continue Reading ]
_The heathen raged_ At David's coming to the throne, and at the setting up of the kingdom of the Son of David. Compare Psalms 2:1. _The kingdoms were moved_ With indignation, and rose up in a tumultuous, furious manner to oppose it. _He uttered his voice He spake unto them in his wrath, Psalms 2:5_,... [ Continue Reading ]
_Come, behold the works of the Lord_ Draw near, all ye that doubt whether God be with us, and consider seriously these wonderful victories, which it would have been impossible for us to have obtained without the help of God; _what desolations he hath made in the earth_ That is, among those people of... [ Continue Reading ]
_Be still_, &c. He speaks, either, 1st, To the Israelites, and commands them henceforth silently and quietly to wait upon him, without fear or diffidence; to be calm and sedate, and tremble no more; but, knowing him to be God, God alone, _who would be exalted above the heathen_, to leave it to him t... [ Continue Reading ]