_The Psalmist, from an experience of former mercies, prayeth for the continuance thereof: he promiseth to wait thereon, out of confidence of God's goodness._ To the chief musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. _TITLE._ מזמור קרח לבני למנצח _LAMNAEACH LIBNEI KORACH MIZMOR._— This psalm is a thank... [ Continue Reading ]
TURN US, O GOD OF OUR SALVATION— The meaning is, "Restore us entirely to our former happy state, by completing the deliverance which thou hast begun; and by averting these new troubles which have befallen us." See Ezra 4:4; Ezra 4:21; Ezra 4:23. It is not improbable, that this psalm was ordered to b... [ Continue Reading ]
WILT THOU NOT REVIVE US AGAIN— To send a people into captivity, is to inflict civil death upon them. To restore them to their own land, is to _revive,_ or give them a new life: thus the final restoration of the Jewish people is called by St. Paul, _life from the dead._ Green. The expression may also... [ Continue Reading ]
I WILL HEAR, &C.— _I will hearken what the Lord God will pronounce. Yes, he pronounceth prosperity to his people, and to his favoured ones, provided they return no more to folly; i.e._ to their old idolatry, and their other crimes; for which God drove them out of Judea. See Mudge.... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT GLORY MAY DWELL, &C.— That is, "We shall once again see glorious days in our land;" or perhaps, "the glory, the Shechinah, resident among us.... [ Continue Reading ]
MERCY AND TRUTH, &C.— _The favour and justice_ which God shewed his people, are considered as coming down from heaven, and meeting and embracing truth and prosperity, springing up from the earth: i.e. as soon as God is determined to shew favour to his people, they are immediately answered by prosper... [ Continue Reading ]
RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL GO BEFORE HIM, &C.— _Before him righteousness shall walk; and that's the path his feet shall tread:_ Hebrew: _he shall set his feet in the way;_ that _way of righteousness,_ says Fenwick, (referring the psalm to Christ) in which his harbinger, the Baptist, shall go before him. Th... [ Continue Reading ]