_A.M. 2989. B.C. 1015._ This Psalm is thought by Bishop Patrick and some others to have been composed on account of the great deliverance of Jerusalem from the numerous and formidable army of Sennacherib, in the time of Hezekiah. But it so exactly agrees with David's circumstances at his coming to... [ Continue Reading ]
_Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks_ I, in my own, and in thy people's name; _for that thy name_ Thy self, or thy power; _is near_ That is, is present with us, and most ready to help us when we cry unto thee; thou art not departed from us; thou dost not now stand _afar off_, as once thou didst, Psa... [ Continue Reading ]
_When I shall receive the congregation_ The first verse was spoken by many persons, _We give thanks_, &c.; here the speaker is one, and that one is plainly a ruler, who promises that when he shall have _received the congregation_, or, as מועד may be properly rendered, _an appointed_, or _fit time_,... [ Continue Reading ]
_The earth_ Or _land; and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved_ Or _melted_, as נמגים, _nemogim_, may be rendered. It seems to mean, either that the Israelitish affairs were thrown into confusion, and the frame of the government dissolved by their civil distractions, or that the people were con... [ Continue Reading ]
_I said_ With authority and command; _unto the fools_ The wicked: I charged them; _Deal not foolishly_ Desist from your impious and injurious practices, which shall not now go unpunished as they have done. _Lift not up your horn_, &c. Do not carry yourselves with pride and arrogance, boasting of you... [ Continue Reading ]
_For promotion cometh not_, &c. Though you envy and oppose my advancement, because I was but a poor shepherd, and of a mean family; yet you ought to know and consider what is notorious and visible in the world, that the dignities and sceptres of the earth are not always conferred according to human... [ Continue Reading ]
_For_, &c. This verse is added, either, 1st, As a reason or confirmation of the assertion, Psalms 75:7, and to show that God, in removing one king to make way for another, did not proceed in a way of absolute sovereignty, but in a way of justice and equity. Or, 2d, As another argument to enforce his... [ Continue Reading ]
_But I will declare for ever_ These dispensations of mercy and judgment to the world. _I will sing praises to the God of Jacob_ He will praise God, and give him glory for the power to which he had advanced him, and that not only at first, while the mercy was fresh, but _for ever;_ as long as he live... [ Continue Reading ]