_The state of the godly: their safety: their habitation: their servants: their friend; with the effects of them all._ THIS psalm has no title, and therefore is likely to be by the same author with the foregoing; but this is still more probable from the subject of it: for as the 90th psalm appears ca... [ Continue Reading ]
HIS TRUTH— Meaning, no doubt, that gracious promise, Numbers 14:31. _But your little ones, which you said should be a prey, them will I bring in; and they shall know the land which ye have despised;_ whereas of the others their doom is repeated in the following verse: _Your carcases shall fall in th... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU SHALT NOT BE AFRAID— The younger ones were to rest secure in the divine promise for protection. Amid the daily spectacles of mortality to which they were soon to be accustomed, it is added, Psalms 91:8. _Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold,_ &c. i.e. "Thou shalt only have the discomfort of s... [ Continue Reading ]
HE SHALL GIVE HIS ANGELS CHARGE, &C.— These verses point out still more plainly the occasion of this psalm. For as the people were not only exposed to diseases in the wilderness, but also to the incursions of wild beasts, and particularly the venomous bite of serpents, he tells them, that God would... [ Continue Reading ]
WITH LONG LIFE WILL I SATISFY, &C.— If we can doubt what is here meant by _long life,_ we may find it well explained to us, Psalms 21:4. _He asked life of thee, and thou gavest him a long life, even for ever and ever._ As for the term _salvation,_ let us hear Le Clerc's comment upon the place: "If y... [ Continue Reading ]