Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Psalms 89:24
Faithfulness and mercy, represented in Psalms 89:14 as God’s attendants, are here commissioned to act as a guard to David and his house.
Faithfulness and mercy, represented in Psalms 89:14 as God’s attendants, are here commissioned to act as a guard to David and his house.
BUT MY FAITHFULNESS AND MY MERCY SHALL BE WITH HIM - I will at the same time be faithful to him, and merciful. These attributes of my nature shall be always attendant on him, as if they were his own....
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...
And my faithfulness and lovingkindness shall be with him....
The mention of the king in Psalms 89:18 naturally leads up to the covenant with David which was briefly alluded to in Psalms 89:3. The Psalmist now recites the promise in detail in a poetical expansio...
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...
Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people. -Development of the original promise to David, alread...
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...
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 89:25]_ וֶֽ אֶֽמוּנָתִ֣י וְ חַסְדִּ֣י עִמֹּ֑ו...
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.,_...
THE COVENANT WITH DAVID Psalms 89:19 In this section the psalmist draws put, in detail, the fundamental prophecy by Nathan already mentioned; first, in the promises given to David, Psalms 89:19; and...
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...
But my faithfulness and my (t) mercy [shall be] with him: and in my name shall his (u) horn be exalted. (t) I will mercifully perform my promise to him despite his infirmities and offences. (u) His...
Nothing, I venture to believe, hath tended more to obscure the glories of the Lord Jesus, and to hide from the view of an ordinary reader the many blessed things which the book of Psalms is continuall...
24_My truth and my mercy shall be with him. _God shows that he will continue to exercise without intermission that grace which he had manifested towards David at first. These words are as if he had sa...
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...
BUT MY FAITHFULNESS AND MY MERCY SHALL BE WITH HIM,.... The "faithfulness" of God was and is with Christ, in performing promises made to him respecting his work, and strength to do it, as man, and the...
But my faithfulness and my mercy [shall be] with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted. Ver. 24. _But my faithfulness and my mercy_] My power without him according to promise, and my peace wi...
_My faithfulness and mercy shall be with him Faithfulness_ in making good all my promises to him; and _mercy_ in doing more for him than I promised, and in pardoning his sins, for which I might justly...
THE RULE OF THE MESSIAH...
But My faithfulness, in fulfillment of all the promises of old, AND MY MERCY, the merciful kindness by which the redemption of mankind would be effected, SHALL BE WITH HIM; AND IN MY NAME SHALL HIS HO...
19-37 The Lord anointed David with the holy oil, not only as an emblem of the graces and gifts he received, but as a type of Christ, the King Priest, and Prophet, anointed with the Holy Ghost without...
FAITHFULNESS, in making good all my promises to him, and mercy, in doing more for him than I have promised, or in pardoning his sins, for which I might justly make him to know my breach of promise. IN...
Psalms 89:24 faithfulness H530 mercy H2617 name H8034 horn H7161 exalted H7311 (H8799) But my -...
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...
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...
Psalms 89:1. Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite. That is to say, an instructive Psalm, written by or for one Ethan, one of the great singers of David's day. He sings of the covenant, the covenant with Davi...
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...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 89:19 The mention of the king’s role in Israel (v. Psalms 89:18) leads to the story of how David and his heirs came to be the royal family ...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 89:24 STEADFAST LOVE. See v. Psalms 89:33; 2 Samuel 7:15
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 Samuel 2:1; 2 Corinthians 1:20; John 1:17; John 17:11; John 17:26;...
THE PSALM OF WORSHIPFUL PRAISE Psalms 89:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS By way of introduction we shall take the first two verses of our study and see what God will give us. Let us quote to you these verses i...