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Verse Psalms 89:36. _HIS THRONE AS THE SUN_] Splendid and glorious!
dispensing light, heat, life, and salvation to all mankind....
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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 ...
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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...
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HIS SEED, &C. Compare John 12:34....
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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...
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The irreversible nature of a promise confirmed by God's oath....
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Cp. Psalms 89:4_; Psalms 89:29_; Psalms 72:5; Psalms 72:7; Psalms
72:17
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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_[Psalms 89:37]_ זַ֭רְעֹו לְ עֹולָ֣ם יִהְיֶ֑ה
וְ...
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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.,_...
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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...
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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...
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What a blessed nevertheless this is, (verse 33) and how sweetly doth
it come in here, to give relief to a poor sin-beaten, tempted, and
fallen soul! Though poor and wretched, and wanderers from the Lo...
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36._His seed shall endure for ever. _There now follows the promise
that the right of sovereignty shall always remain with the posterity
of David. These two things — his offspring and his throne, are
c...
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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...
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HIS SEED SHALL ENDURE FOR EVER,.... This is a confirmation by his oath
of what he had before said, Psalms 89:29 which may be understood
either of the perseverance of particular believers, of everyone...
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_His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me._
Ver. 36. _His seed shall endure for ever_] Christ "shall see his seed,
he shall prolong his days; and the pleasure of the Lord s...
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_His throne as the sun before me_ In respect of perpetual duration, as
appears, both from the foregoing and following words. _It shall be
established as the moon_ As the moon, though subject to eclips...
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THE RULE OF THE MESSIAH...
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His seed, in the person of the Messiah, SHALL ENDURE FOREVER, AND HIS
THRONE AS THE SUN BEFORE ME, that is, throughout eternity....
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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...
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In respect of perpetual duration, as appears both from the foregoing
words, and from the following verse....
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Psalms 89:36 seed H2233 forever H5769 throne H3678 sun H8121
seed - Psalms 89:4, P
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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_As the sun _
THE SUN AS AN EMBLEM OF GOD
The sun has always been an object so full of mystery and amazing
quality that in a large part of history it was worshipped as a deity,
and it is destined in...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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2 Samuel 7:16; Isaiah 53:10; Isaiah 59:21; Isaiah 9:7; Jeremiah 33:20
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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...