Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Psalms 89:40
Verse Psalms 89:40. Thou hast broken down all his hedges] Thou hart permitted the land to be stripped of all defence; there is not even one strong place in the hands of thy people.
Verse Psalms 89:40. Thou hast broken down all his hedges] Thou hart permitted the land to be stripped of all defence; there is not even one strong place in the hands of thy people.
THOU HAST BROKEN DOWN ALL HIS HEDGES - His walls or defenses; all that he relied on for safety. THOU HAST BROUGHT HIS STRONGHOLDS TO RUIN - His towers, fortifications; defenses. The enemy has been su...
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...
But present realities are in appalling contrast to this glorious promise: the king is rejected and dethroned, his kingdom is overrun by invaders, his enemies are triumphant....
Insensibly the king is identified with the nation whose head and representative he was. The first line is taken from the description of Israel as a vine in Psalms 80:12. _hedges_ Or, as R.V. in Psalm...
THOU HAST BROKEN DOWN ALL HIS HEDGES— _Thou hast broken all his fences_ or _walls: thou hast made his strong-holds a ruin._ Mudge and Green. See Psalms 80:12....
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...
But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed. -The people of the covenant contrast the sad state of things actually with what the covenant seemed to promise. Simila...
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...
The thought passes from the king to the nation. For the figure cp. Psalms 80:12....
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 89:41]_ פָּרַ֥צְתָּ כָל ־גְּדֵרֹתָ֑יו שַׂ֖מְתָּ מִבְצָרָ֣יו
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...
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...
40._Thou hast broken down all his walls. _The prophet, although he might easily have found another cause to which to impute the breaking down and razing of the fortifications, yet under the influence...
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...
THOU HAST BROKEN DOWN ALL HIS HEDGES,.... Round about his vine, the church; see Psalms 80:12. A famous church was raised at Jerusalem, quickly after the death, resurrection, and ascension of Christ, w...
Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin. Ver. 40. _Thou hast broken down all his hedges_] Or, walls. The walls of Sparta were their militia, of England are th...
_But thou hast cast off_ Having hitherto declared the certainty of God's promises, he now proceeds to show the unsuitableness of the present dispensations of God's providence thereunto, and humbly exp...
LAMENT AND COMFORT...
Thou hast broken down all His hedges, the fences which kept the enemies from assailing Him; THOU HAST BROUGHT HIS STRONGHOLDS TO RUIN, the Proxy of mankind having all His fortifications taken from Him...
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...
ALL HIS HEDGES; all the means of his protection and safety....
Psalms 89:40 down H6555 (H8804) hedges H1448 brought H7760 (H8804) strongholds H4013 ruin H4288 broken -...
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 89:38 It looks and feels as if God has not kept his promises to the house of David (and thus to his people). This section repeats words from the preceding parts of the psalm to st...
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 Chronicles 12:2; 2 Chronicles 15:5; Isaiah 5:5; Isaiah 5:6; Job 1:10