CONTENTS
The Writer of this Psalm is calling upon Israel to bless the God of
Israel: and he proposeth the subject and points to the cause. The
Psalm concludes with lamenting the sad departures of Israel in many
instances.
To the chief musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph.... [ Continue Reading ]
It is very probable that this Psalm formed part of the religious
worship in the temple on the feast days. We find several occasions of
this sort: such as the feast of trumpets; Leviticus 23:24; Numbers
29:1; and the jubilee trumpet; Leviticus 25:9 : and we know that
instruments of music were used in... [ Continue Reading ]
Moses appointed certain seasons of memorial; such, for example, as the
passover; Exodus 12:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
The Reader, will remark, in this place, a change of the person
speaking. In the preceding verses the church is speaking, and the
members of it are calling upon one another to attend the service of
the Lord. But here it is the Lord himself that is introduced as
speaking.... [ Continue Reading ]
These are sweet views of God's former dealings with his people; and a
reference to Israel's history will mark out the several periods here
spoken of. But, Reader! do not you and I also see our own history, and
Jesus interposing for our salvation?... [ Continue Reading ]
Reader! let us for a moment drop Israel's history, to which these
verses refer, to look into our own. We know how the Lord delivered
Israel upon the several occasions here described; but may not you and
I conceive, without violence to the words, that Jesus speaks to us in
the same gracious language?... [ Continue Reading ]
Reader! what saith thy heart to these charges? What saith thy
experience to this awful giving up? Oh! Lord! do thou still keep,
still preserve, and abide in thy love, for thou hatest putting away.
Reader! do not overlook, in the midst of the solemn things of this
verse, that the Lord still calls Isr... [ Continue Reading ]
So Jesus wept over Jerusalem! And had Israel then, or upon the
occasion which this Psalm records, hearkened unto the Lord, the
temporal prosperity of Israel would have continued. For, I beg the
Reader to observe, that in both instances it is of temporal prosperity
the Lord evidently speaks. Here it... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS
READER! let every renewed call, which we behold in the old
dispensation, to excite the people to praise, remind us of our higher
privileges, and become an additional incentive to the most animated
love and praise to our God in Christ. Were the Old Testament saints
perpetually reminded o... [ Continue Reading ]