Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Psalms 89:12
Tabor and Hermon. West and east of the Holy Land; and, with north and south, completing the four points of the compass.
Tabor and Hermon. West and east of the Holy Land; and, with north and south, completing the four points of the compass.
Verse Psalms 89:12. _THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH_] It is generally supposed that by these _four_ terms all the four quarters of the globe are intended. _Tabor_, a mountain of Galilee, was on the _west_ of...
THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH, THOU HAST CREATED THEM - All that there is in the north and in the south - in the northern and the southern sky - the constellations and the stars; and all that there is in th...
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 adoring recital of God's attributes which follows here has a twofold purpose in relation to the subject of the Psalm. It is a plea with God, and it is an encouragement to Israel. His omnipotence g...
Jehovah's incomparableness is manifested in nature and in history....
_The north and the south_ The furthest extremities of the world. Cp. Job 26:7. _Tabor and Hermon_ These mountains are named, not so much to represent the West and East of the land, as because they are...
TABOR AND HERMON— These two famous mountains of Judea, the first on the west, and the second on the east of it, are here put for the eastern and western quarters of the world. _Shall rejoice in thy na...
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...
And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints. -Inasmuch as the value of a promise depends on the power and the faithfulness of the promi...
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...
TABOR AND HERMON] the most prominent mountains of Palestine....
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 ...
TABOR AND HERMON. — Introduced not only as standing roughly for west and east, but for their prominence and importance in the landscape. (Comp. Hosea 5:1.) SHALL REJOICE. — Better, _sing for joy. _...
(8-13) Not only is God incomparable in heaven, He is also the only mighty and lofty one in nature or history....
_[Psalms 89:13]_ צָפֹ֣ון וְ֭ יָמִין אַתָּ֣ה בְרָאתָ֑ם...
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.,_...
NO GOD LIKE OUR GOD Psalms 89:1 To understand this psalm we must turn to 2 Samuel 7:1, where God guaranteed that David's kingdom should be continued to his descendants. Nathan's words are quoted in P...
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...
The north and the south thou hast created them: (k) Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name. (k) Tabor is a mountain west from Jerusalem, and Hermon to the East, so the prophet signifies that all...
_Thy right hand. Your Messias, to liberate and instruct us. (St. Augustine) --- "Make us know how to number our days thus, and we shall come to thee with a wise heart." (St. Jerome) (Ecclesiasticus vi...
These verses contain a blessed hymn of praise. Jehovah's name, and his perfections, are gratefully celebrated. His sovereignty, grace, power, love, and goodness, are beautifully set forth, and most th...
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...
Ver. 12 THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH, THOU HAST CREATED THEM,.... The two extreme parts of the world, the northern and southern poles, whether inhabited or uninhabited, are created by the Lord, to answer s...
The north and the south thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name. Ver. 12. _Tabor and Hermon_] That is, the west and east of Judaea, but put here for the west and east of th...
_The earth also is thine, and the fulness thereof_ All the creatures wherewith it is replenished, as Psalms 24:1; Psalms 50:12. _Thou hast founded them_ They are all thy creatures, and of consequence...
OF THE MESSIAH AND HIS KINGDOM. Maschil, a didactic poem, of Ethan, the Ezrahite, a descendant of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, 1 Chronicles 2:6; 1 Kings 4:31. He belonged to a great family, or guild,...
The north and the south, the entire expanse of the earth, THOU HAST CREATED THEM; TABOR, on the west side of Jordan, between the Sea of Galilee and the plain of Jezreel, AND HERMON, in the extreme nor...
5-14 The more God's works are known, the more they are admired. And to praise the Lord, is to acknowledge him to be such a one that there is none like him. Surely then we should feel and express reve...
THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH; the northern and southern parts of the world, yea, even the remotest ends thereof; though not yet known to us, were made and are ruled by thee. Or possibly he may understand t...
Psalms 89:12 north H6828 south H3225 created H1254 (H8804) Tabor H8396 Hermon H2768 rejoice H7442 (H8762) name...
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...
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...
Deuteronomy 3:8; Deuteronomy 3:9; Isaiah 35:1; Isaiah 35:2; Isaiah 49:1
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...
Tabor — The several parts of the land of Canaan, both within Jordan, where mount Tabor is; and without it, where Hermon lies. Rejoice — Shall be fruitful and prosperous, and so give their inhabitants...