PSALM 60 SHUSHAN-EDUTH: this, like the rest, seems to be the name of an instrument, or song, or tune, then well known, but now quite unknown and forgotten; it may be and is by some rendered, _the lily_ or _rose_ of _thy testimony_ or _oracle_; but why it was so called is a matter of mere conjecture,... [ Continue Reading ]
MADE THE EARTH TO TREMBLE; a poetical and hyperbolical expression, signifying great and dreadful changes among the people, as HAGGAI 2:7, compared with HEBREWS 12:26,27. See also 1 SAMUEL 14:15. HEAL THE BREACHES THEREOF; reconcile all those differences which our civil wars have made among us.... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU HAST SHOWED, Heb. _made them to see_, i.e. to experience or feel, as seeing is oft put, as PSALMS 49:10, and oft elsewhere. Thou hast filled us with no less horror and trembling, than men intoxicated with strong and stupefying drink, which they are forced to drink. Compare ISAIAH 51:17,21.... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU HAST GIVEN; either, 1. Formerly. As thou hast sometimes afflicted thy people, so at other times thou hast delivered them. Or rather, 2. Now lately by and under me. A BANNER; which is a sign and instrument, 1. Of union. This people, who were lately divided and under several banners, thou hast... [ Continue Reading ]
Thy beloved people, last mentioned.... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD HATH SPOKEN: having prayed that God would save and hear him, he now intimates that God had done it already, and had prevented his prayers, and _had spoken_ to him and of him, about the stablishing of his throne. IN HIS HOLINESS; or, _in the sanctuary or holy place_, to which David used to resort... [ Continue Reading ]
GILEAD; all their land beyond Jordan, which was possessed by Reuben and Gad, and half of the tribe of Manasseh, NUMBERS 32:29,39,40 DEU 3:10, &c.; JOSHUA 13:25, &c. MANASSEH; the other half of that tribe within Jordan. MINE HEAD; either, 1. Mine horns, wherewith I shall push mine enemies, according... [ Continue Reading ]
MOAB IS MY WASH-POT, in which I shall wash my feet. I shall bring them into the lowest degree of servitude, and make them contemptible and miserable. See 2 SAMUEL 8:2. OVER EDOM, an old, and proud, and insolent, and cruel enemy of Israel, WILL I CAST OUT MY SHOE, i.e. I will use them like slaves; ei... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO WILL BRING ME? None can do it but God, as he declareth in the following verses. INTO THE STRONG CITY, i.e. the cities; the singular number for the plural, which is usual. Having beaten his enemies out of the field, and into their strong cities, from whence they hoped to renew the war, he desires... [ Continue Reading ]
To wit, in former times, but now hast graciously returned to us. He brings to his own and people's minds their former calamities, that they may be more thankful for present mercies and deliverance.... [ Continue Reading ]
Though I have some reputation for valour and conduct, and though my people are very numerous, and now united under me, yet all this will avail little or nothing without thy almighty help.... [ Continue Reading ]
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