Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Psalms 89:18
For the Lord. — Or, rather —
“For of Jehovah is our shield,
And of Israel’s Holy One our king,”
“shield” and “king” being in synonymous parallelism. Jehovah is the source of the theocratic power.
For the Lord. — Or, rather —
“For of Jehovah is our shield,
And of Israel’s Holy One our king,”
“shield” and “king” being in synonymous parallelism. Jehovah is the source of the theocratic power.
FOR THE LORD IS OUR DEFENSE - Margin, “Our shield is of the Lord.” The original word rendered “defense,” is shield. Compare Psalms 5:12, note; Psalms 33:20, note; Psalms 59:11, note. The meaning is, t...
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...
DEFENCE. shield. Hebrew. _ganan,_ to cover, or protect....
For to Jehovah belongeth our shield; And our King to the Holy One of Israel. _Shield_, as in Psalms 47:9, is a metaphor for the king as the protector of his people. The king of Israel belongs to Jeho...
Happy the people that have such a God, and whose King is the vicegerent of such a Sovereign. These verses form the transition to the second division of the Psalms, vv19 ff. From the praise of God it i...
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...
FOR THE LORD IS OUR DEFENCE, &C.— Mudge connects this with the following verse thus: _Yes, to the Lord belongs our shield, and to the Holy One of Israel our king:_ Psalms 89:19. _From the time that th...
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...
89:18 Holy (m-8) Or 'For of (or from) Jehovah ... and of (or from) the Holy One,' and see Note f, ver. 5....
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...
RV 'For our shield belongeth unto the Lord; and our king to the Holy One of Israel.' The 'shield' is the same as the 'king,' who is under God's protecting care....
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 ...
_[Psalms 89:19]_ כִּ֣י לַֽ֭ יהוָה מָֽגִנֵּ֑נוּ וְ...
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...
For the LORD [is] our (p) defence; and the Holy One of Israel [is] our king. (p) In that our King has power to defend us, it is the gift of God....
These verses come in, as assigning the great cause of all the blessedness described in the foregoing verses. It is all centered in the person, and founded on the complete work, of the glorious Head of...
18._For to Jehovah is our buckler. _As the chief protection of the people was in the person of their king, it is here expressly shown, that the maintenance of the welfare of the faithful by his instru...
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...
FOR THE LORD IS OUR DEFENCE,.... From all their enemies, being all around them, as a wall of fire to protect them, and as the mountains were round about Jerusalem, and being kept by his power as in a...
For the LORD [is] our defence; and the Holy One of Israel [is] our king. Ver. 18. _For the Lord is our defence_] Heb. our shield; the body cannot be wounded, but through the shield. _ And the Holy O...
_In thy name shall they rejoice all the day_ That is, in the knowledge and remembrance of thy name, or of thy infinite power and goodness, revealed and imparted to them; _and in thy righteousness_ Whe...
For the Lord is our Defense, and the Holy One of Israel is our King. The confidence of the believers in the ultimate victory of their cause is so great because the Lord is on their side, both as their...
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 LORD IS OUR DEFENSE, AND THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL IS OUR KING: Or, our shield is of the LORD, and our king is of the holy One of Israel...
15-18 Happy are those who so know the joyful sound of the gospel as to obey it; who experience its power upon their hearts, and bring forth the fruit of it in their lives. Though believers are nothin...
This verse gives a reason of the psalmist's confidence that their horn would be exalted. THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL IS OUR KING; having therefore so potent a Friend, we have no reason to despair of our re...
Psalms 89:18 shield H4043 LORD H3068 king H4428 One H6918 Israel H3478 the Lord is - Psalms 47:9,...
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...
_Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound._ THE BLESSEDNESS OF KNOWING THE GOSPEL I. The Gospel is a happy message. “The joyful sound.” It is good news. 1. Liberty to the captive. 2. Pardo...
_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 89:15 God has given his people a special place in his plan for the world. They are EXALTED, and God pledges his STRENGTH on their behalf....
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 33:27; Genesis 15:1; Isaiah 1:4; Isaiah 12:6; Isaiah 29:19
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...