Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 89:29
For ever — To sit upon the throne for ever, as the next words explain it. This was accomplished only in Christ.
For ever — To sit upon the throne for ever, as the next words explain it. This was accomplished only in Christ.
Verse Psalms 89:29. _HIS SEED ALSO WILL I MAKE_ TO ENDURE _FOR EVER_] This can apply only to the spiritual David. The posterity of David are long since extinct, or so blended with the remaining Jews...
HIS SEED ALSO WILL I MAKE TO ENDURE FOR EVER - That is, His posterity shall occupy the throne: (a) this would have been true of his descendants, if they had been faithful to God, and had not revolted...
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...
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...
The emphasis is on _for evermore_. The permanence of the promise is expressed in the strongest terms. Cp. 2 Samuel 7:13; 2 Samuel 7:16. Once more too the notes of lovingkindness and faithfulness are...
DISCOURSE: 650 GOD’S COVENANT ENGAGEMENTS WITH CHRIST AND US Psalms 89:28. My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him. His seed also will I make to endure for...
ALSO I WILL MAKE HIM MY FIRST-BORN, &C.— I will deal with him as with an eldest son, to whom a double portion of honour and possessions is due; and advance him to greater dignity than any other prince...
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 ...
DAYS OF HEAVEN. — Deuteronomy 11:21. (Comp. Psalms 72:5; and see below, Psalms 89:36.)...
_[Psalms 89:30]_ וְ שַׂמְתִּ֣י לָ עַ֣ד זַרְעֹ֑ו...
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...
His seed also will I make [to endure] (z) for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven. (z) Though for the sins of the people the state of the kingdom decayed, yet God reserved still a root till he...
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...
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...
HIS SEED ALSO WILL I MAKE TO ENDURE FOR EVER,.... Not a race of kings from David, which ended at the Babylonish captivity; not the natural seed of David, not the Messiah himself, who sprung from him,...
His seed also will I make [to endure] for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven. Ver. 29. _His seed also, &c._] This is chiefly meant of Christ and his kingdom. _ And his throne as the days of...
_My mercy_ Declared and promised to him and his seed, as it here follows; _will I keep for him for evermore_ Nothing shall alter my kind intentions, but I will mercifully fulfil all my promises to him...
THE RULE OF THE MESSIAH...
His seed also, His spiritual offspring, those born again by faith in His atonement, WILL I MAKE TO ENDURE FOREVER AND HIS THRONE AS THE DAYS OF HEAVEN, the kingdom of His mercy and glory lasting throu...
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...
TO ENDURE FOR EVER, i.e. to sit upon the throne for ever, as the next words explain it. This was accomplished only in Christ, the eternal King of the church, and of the world, who was of David's seed...
Psalms 89:29 seed H2233 make H7760 (H8804) forever H5703 throne H3678 days H3117 heaven H8064 His seed -...
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 ...
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 Chronicles 17:11; 1 Chronicles 17:12; 1 Chronicles 22:10; Daniel 2:44;...
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...