Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Psalms 89:46
How long. — With this persistent cry of the Maccabæan age (see Psalms 74:10), the poet shows that faith is not extinct, though it has a sore struggle with despair.
How long. — With this persistent cry of the Maccabæan age (see Psalms 74:10), the poet shows that faith is not extinct, though it has a sore struggle with despair.
Verse Psalms 89:46. _HOW LONG, LORD?_] The promise cannot utterly fail. When then, O Lord, wilt thou restore the kingdom to Israel?...
HOW LONG, LORD? - How long is this to continue? Can it be that this is to continue always? Is there to be no change for the better? Are the promises which have been made, never to be fulfilled? Compar...
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...
SHALL. Supply Ellipsis from preceding line: "[How long] shall", &c....
How long, Jehovah, wilt thou hide thyself for ever? (How long) shall thy wrath burn like fire? A repetition of Psalms 79:5, with slight variations....
The Psalmist appeals to God to withdraw His wrath and remove this contradiction, pleading the shortness of life and the taunts of God's enemies as grounds for a speedy answer....
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...
How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire? -The suppliant here turns from lamentation to prayer, that the Lord would remove the present prostration of David's...
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...
SHALL] RV 'how long shall.'...
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 89:47]_ עַד ־מָ֣ה יְ֭הוָה תִּסָּתֵ֣ר לָ...
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...
How long, (g) LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire? (g) The prophet in joining prayer with his complaint, shows that his faith never failed....
Here is a new train of thoughts, arising out of the view of God's covenant love in redemption, celebrated before. The degeneracy of Israel, and the captivity of the people (probably with an eye to the...
46._How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? _After having poured forth his complaints respecting the sad and calamitous condition of the Church, the Psalmist now turns himself to prayer....
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...
HOW LONG, LORD, WILT THOU HIDE THYSELF? FOR EVER?.... When God hides his face front his people, though it is but for a little while, it seems long, and a kind of an eternity to them; and so it seemed...
How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire? Ver. 46. _How long, Lord? &c._] Here faith prevaileth against flesh, and falleth a praying, and at length a praising G...
LAMENT AND COMFORT...
How long, Lord? Wilt Thou hide Thyself forever? Shall Thy wrath burn like fire? Note that these words are practically a parallel to the Messiah's unexampled cry of distress and desolation, Psalms 22:2...
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...
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Psalms 89:46 LORD H3068 hide H5641 (H8735) forever H5331 wrath H2534 burn H1197 (H8799) fire H784 Ho
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...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 89:46 There is great comfort in the promise of an enduring Davidic house. The people can be confident that their present low condition is not the end of their story. The appeal is...
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...
2 Thessalonians 1:8; Hebrews 12:29; Hosea 5:15; Isaiah 45:15; Isa