_The Psalmist exhorteth the redeemed, in praising God, to observe his manifold providence over travellers, over captives, over sick men, over seamen, and in divers varieties of life._ THIS psalm, according to some, was composed by David; and if so, it seems chiefly to relate to the deliverance of th... [ Continue Reading ]
LET THE REDEEMED, &C.— Though these verses seem more immediately to refer to the return of the Jews from Babylon; yet the next has a more immediate reference to the deliverance out of Egypt: but it is most probable that the latter expressions are only metaphorical; for it is very common with the Heb... [ Continue Reading ]
NO CITY TO DWELL IN— _No city of habitation;_ or _abiding city._... [ Continue Reading ]
OH THAT MEN WOULD PRAISE THE LORD, &C.— _Let them acknowledge to the Lord his mercy, and his wonderful works,_ &c. Mudge, and so in the following intercalary verses. Dr. Hammond remarks very properly, that this is a psalm of answering, or parts, to be sung alternately; having a double burden or inte... [ Continue Reading ]
BECAUSE THEY REBELLED— Mudge reads this and the next verse in a parenthesis: (_Because they had rebelled,_ &c. Psalms 107:12. _And so he hath brought down their heart with pain; they are fallen without a helper._) Psalms 107:13_. Yet when they cry unto the Lord,_ &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOOLS BECAUSE OF THEIR TRANSGRESSION— _The foolish, who depart from his way, and are brought low by their iniquities.—_Ver. 18. _Whose soul loatheth all manner of food, and who draw near to the gates of death._—Ver. 19. _When these cry unto the Lord,_ &c. Green. The reader will observe throughout th... [ Continue Reading ]
_PSALMS 107:26_. &C. _THEY MOUNT UP,_ &C.— There cannot be conceived any thing more poetical or sublime, than this description of a storm at sea; a subject on which the most celebrated poets have employed their pens. It would be a pleasing task, if the nature or limits of our work allowed it, to com... [ Continue Reading ]
HE MAKETH THE STORM A CALM— _He maketh the storm to stand in silence._ Mudge.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PEOPLE—AND—ELDERS— The _people_ are here opposed to the _elders,_ and both together signify the whole assembly or congregation; for, among the Jews, the doctors, the rulers of the synagogue, and the elders, had a distinct apartment from the people; and, the service being much in antiphone or res... [ Continue Reading ]
AGAIN, THEY ARE MINISHED AND BROUGHT LOW— _Whereas the others are diminished and brought low, by drought, suffering, and sorrow._ The _others_ mean those referred to in the 33rd and 34th verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE POURETH CONTEMPT UPON PRINCES— This and the two following verses contain an opposition which seems to point to Pharaoh and the children of Israel. Pharaoh was _brought to shame, and made to wander in_ תהו _tohu,_ an idea compounded of _waste, confusion,_ and _darkness;_ for such was his case when... [ Continue Reading ]