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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...
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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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DEFENCE. shield. Hebrew. _ganan,_ to cover, or protect....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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89:18 Holy (m-8) Or 'For of (or from) Jehovah ... and of (or from) the
Holy One,' and see Note f, ver. 5....
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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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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....
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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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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....
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_[Psalms 89:19]_ כִּ֣י לַֽ֭ יהוָה
מָֽגִנֵּ֑נוּ 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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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Psalms 89:18 shield H4043 LORD H3068 king H4428 One H6918 Israel H3478
the Lord is - Psalms 47:9,...
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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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_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...
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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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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 89:15 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....
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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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Deuteronomy 33:27; Genesis 15:1; Isaiah 1:4; Isaiah 12:6; Isaiah 29:19
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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...