It is not possible now to ascertain on what occasion this psalm was
composed, or who was its author. It has been generally believed that
it was written in the later periods of the Jewish history, and...
i. In a time of national humiliation Israel supplicates Jehovah to
vindicate the honour of His name by raising His people from their
degradation. Why should the heathen be allowed to mock, when Israel...
CXV.
That this is a late liturgical psalm all commentators agree, but the
precise period of its composition cannot be ascertained. The belief
that death cut the Hebrew off from all the privileges of t...
INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 115
This psalm is by the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, and
Ethiopic versions, joined to the former, and makes one psalm with it:
and Kimchi says, that in some books...
_A.M. 2962. B.C. 1042._
It is probable that this Psalm was composed in some time of great
distress, when the pagan enemies of the Israelites began to boast, as
if their gods were too hard for the God...