45. 15. Ver. They shall smart for it sooner or later. For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven. Psalm 89:1-2. Psalms 89:38-45. —William Binnie. The Psalmist himself laid the scorn of the great and the proud to heart. of Calvin. Therefore we praise thee, therefore we trust in thee, therefore we will not fear what man can do against us. Sometimes you feel that you cannot praise God, and cannot pray to him. Worldly men need outward prosperity to make them lift up their heads, but the saints find more than enough encouragement in the secret love of God. 11. —Musculus. 6. 2. We have now reached the majestic Covenant Psalm, which, according to the Jewish arrangement closes the third book of the Psalms. Ethan wrote Psalm 89 many years after this. —John Edwards. No power, human or Satanic, can break the Christian succession; as saints die others shall rise up to fill their places, so that till the last day, the day of doom, Jesus shall have a seed to serve him. 2. An objection is supposed: `Suppose this seed who are included in the covenant fall into transgression, how shall the covenant stand fast then?' In order to harmonize these opposite desires, he takes the rod, and chastises them, to arouse their conscience, and to excite their faith; to restore them, by the repentance which his discipline produces, to such a state, as that he may be able to bestow upon them, without shame, the blessings he has promised to the children of his Son; just as a wise parent, by moderate and judicious correction gradually draws back his son from those irregularities of life into which he has plunged; and thereby preserves his honour, and himself the pleasure of being able to love and please him without misgiving. Ver. For there is knowledge not merely of the utterances and intonations, but of the sense and substance, of the thought aud feeling, which they convey. There is a tension in this Psalm, between the LORD’s promise of an everlasting dynasty for the line of David (Psalm 89:3-4; Psalm 89:28), and the complaint of the Psalmist (Psalm 89:38). Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground. These are not the ungodly or the unconverted that are spoken of, but God's own children. "Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible". —Christopher Wordsworth. God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the. Thou hast covered them with shame. Amen, and Amen. 1. 14. Darby. And not only is the immutability of his mercy illustrated by these things taken from what is firm on earth, but he ascends up to the heavens, and first into the very highest heavens: Psalms 89:2, For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever; thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens: comparing them to an house built not on earth, or upon a foundation of earth, which thieves break through, and violence destroys, but in heaven, whither they cannot reach. The king had been subject to such sorrow and shame that his diadem had been as it were taken from his head, dashed on the earth, and rolled in the mire. We are allowed to do this, for this holy and inspired man did so unrebuked, but we must do it humbly and in faith. "I have said", etc., said it, Ver. 20-24. From the Commentary on the Whole Bible (Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871). He may fall into great errors, great aberrations from Truth; he may forsake the ordinances of the Lord's house, though he sees God's word is clear upon the point. Conformably to this appointment, the Jews, when they behold the rainbow, are said to bless God, who remembers his covenant and is faithful to his promise. The Psalmist speaks as if all his hopes were bound by the grave; as if the overthrow of the united kingdom of Judah and Ephraim had bereft him of all his joy; and as if he knew no future kingdom to compensate him with its hopes. That is exactly what God says; he comes and contemplates such a case, and he says, "If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments, then" —what? Remember my bearing in my bosom all the many nations; and this may be understood as a pleading of the church that the Lord would remember her because she was yet to be the mother of many nations, according to the prophecy of Psalms 77:1-20. (b) Certified. Psalms 89:26-34. Justice, which defends his subjects, and does every one right. With my holy oil have I appointed him. "Chinnan has lost his money; aye, and his hornship too." When he goes to war he is as unsuccessful as though his sword refused to cut, and gave way like a sword of lead. Commentary on Psalm 100. Ver. 4. Man's faith may fail him sometimes, but God's faithfulness never fails him: God will not suffer his faithfulness to fail. Courage and decision are more needed now than ever, for charity towards heresy is the fashionable vice, and indifference to all truth, under the name of liberal mindedness, is the crowning virtue of the age. David speaks of the sacred hill of Hermon, and compares brotherly love to the dew of it. 19. The covenant promises have also a sound beyond measure precious, and they are highly favoured who understand their meaning and recognise their own personal interest in them. "Count all the joys thine hours have seen. Ver. 3. We need men whose edge cannot be turned, firm for truth, keen against error, sharp towards sin, cutting their way into men's hearts. who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD? This leads him to sing of the happiness of the people who have such a God to be their glory and defence, Psalms 89:15-18. "Mine arm", etc. Notice the use of the word “him” here, as if it was intended to teach us that God’s love to his dear Son, and to his people in him, is so great that though he may chasten us for our transgressions, he will never cast us away. 44. 13. Again, solemn oaths amongst men serve to ratify and make things sworn to perpetual. Saints above see most clearly into the heights and depths of divine love, therefore they praise its wonders; and saints below, being conscious of their many sins and multiplied provocations of the Lord, admire his faithfulness. 5. Well might this hymn, therefore, in allusion to those glorious events, call even the holy hills to rejoice in Jehovah's name, Matthew 17:1-5. —Robert Hawker. Psalm 8 is a hymn of praise. Expositors in their fear of Calvinistic doctrine shake off the fear of adding to the word of God, or else they would not have spent their time in talking about "the conditions" of this absolutely unconditional covenant. This divine edifice, he felt assured, would tower into the skies, and would be turreted with divine faithfulness even as its foundations were laid in eternal love. "In thy", etc. —Adam Clarke. Yet, while these verses primarily refer to David the king of Israel, we must believe that a greater than David is here, even Christ, who deigns to call himself God’s servant, who has been anointed by the Spirit of God, with whom God’s hand is always established, and who is ever strengthened by the arm of Omnipotence. It is as if the Psalmist had said North, South, and all that is between —or in other words, the whole land from North to South, to its very centre and throughout its very marrow—shall rejoice in thy name. If anything in them should provoke God to do it, it must be sin. Woe unto those who despise him, they are guilty of contempt of court before the Lord of Hosts, as well as of rejecting the Son of God. The participation in that blessedness. S. Gregory the Great raises the question here as to how a perpetual singing of the mercies of God is compatible with unalloyed bliss in heaven, inasmuch as the thought of mercy connotes the memory of sin and sorrow, which needed mercy, whereas Isaiah saith that "the former troubles are forgotten", and "the former things shall not be remembered, nor come upon the heart" (Isaiah 65:16-17). Amen, says the church on earth—says the church in heaven—say the angels of God—says the whole holy and happy universe—says eternity past and eternity to come. The dreadful "if" is suggested again, and the sad case is stated in other forms. "With my holy oil", etc. It was planned from everlasting, and will know no ruin or decay, through the illimitable line of eternity itself. Ver. For, it does not say, they shall sit down in the light of thy countenance; or, they shall lie down in the light of thy countenance; but "they shall WALK in the light of thy countenance." 12. If the gospel system can be disproved, nothing remains for us or any other of the sons of men, which can render existence worth the having. Psalm 119 Verses 89-96 Lamed Verse 89 — Exposition; Notes; EXPOSITION VERSE 89 Verse 89.—"For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven. It will never be cut off. Ver. The ruling of the raging of the sea, the stilling of the stormy waves, and the breaking and scattering of the might of Egypt are used by the psalmist to illustrate the omnipotence of Jehovah, before which the mightiest monarchy on earth had no more power than if it had been a corpse. The course of action suggested to his people by the two facts. He say—"I will visit their transgressions with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes." Christ is indeed “higher than the kings of the earth,” for he is “King of kings and Lord of lords.” Do not your hearts rejoice as you think of this blessed King with whom God has entered into a covenant to bless all who are trusting in him, even the very poorest and feeblest of them? TITLE. And hast not made him to stand in the battle. Mercy may seem to depart from the Lord's chosen, but it shall never altogether do so. 5. Thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin. 15. Ver. 2. God himself thus fights the battles of his Son, and effectually overturns his foes. And my covenant shall stand fast with him. So, too, the seed of the Son of David are apt to start aside, but are they therefore cast away? 11. Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him. 33. —John Howe. Because he could swear by no greater he swore by himself, and by that peculiar attribute which is his highest glory, being the subject of threefold adoration by all the hosts of heaven. Neither by strength, wisdom, nor virtue can any man escape the common doom, for to the dust return we must. Because even the best of Israelite kings —Augustus Montague Toplady. Remember how short my time is. The oath sworn to David has not been broken, though the temporal crown is no longer worn, for in the covenant itself his kingdom was spoken of as enduring for ever. all those whom I have given to thee in the decree of election, all those whom thou shalt live and die to redeem, these will I establish for ever, so as to render their salvation irreversible and inadmissible: and build up thy throne, thy mediatorial throne, as King of saints and covenant Head of the elect, to all generations: there shall always be a succession of favoured sinners to be called and sanctified, in consequence of thy federal obedience unto death; and every period of time shall recompense thy covenant sufferings with an increasing revenue of converted souls, until as many as are ordained to eternal life are gathered in. For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king. Wherefore hast thou made all men in vain? Sometimes it is put for his veracity and faithfulness in accomplishing his word of promise, or in executing his word of threatening: Psalms 36:5-6, "Thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds: thy righteousness is like the great mountains." Ver. Keble paraphrases the passage thus: —. And the tradition of this its designation to proclaim comfort to mankind was strong among the heathens: for, according to the mythology of the Greeks, the "rainbow" was the daughter of "wonder", "a sign to mortal men", and regarded, upon its appearance, as a messenger of the celestial deities. Where angels veil their faces, men should surely bow in lowliest fashion. Some by the footsteps of Christ, judge that his advent in the flesh is meant: others refer the words to David, and take the meaning to be, imitation of him. How I do bear in my bosom the reproach, etc. Now he quotes the Lord’s covenant with David —. In the millennial glory it shall be seen what the covenant stores up for the once despised Son of David, but even now faith sees him exalted as King of kings and Lord of lords. Therefore, the promise imports that Christ shall reign, not simply as a person in the Godhead (which he ever did, ever will, and ever must); but relatively, mediatorially, and in his office character, as the deliverer and king of Zion. 36. TITLE. Dear friends, do you walk in that way? —Bellarmine. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. We have everything except the divine energy, and we must never rest content until we see it in full operation among us. All the providential dealings of God seem to be illustrated in the ever-varying phenomena of the sea. The text cuts up this surmise by the roots. The verb denotes "to equalize", or "make one thing equal or equiponderant to another", as a means to the end, or vice versa. But the prophet has thus worded it, because, being the children and members of his Christ, the favours which God bestows upon us belong to him in some manner; and it seems that the Psalmist wishes to show us hereby, that it is in Jesus Christ, and for love of him alone, that God bestows favours on us. By reason of their great troubles they were made a mock of by ungodly men, and hence the Lord's pity is entreated. 14. Psalm 8 Commentary: Psalm 8 is a reflective or meditative psalm. 20. And the ground of this glorious building is God's covenant with his chosen: I have made a covenant with my chosen. My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him. You do not find them addressing Him as Father: they did not know him as such. And build up thy throne to all generations. 8. Ver. Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of Death? 2. Ver. 3-4. Chastisement with a rod is not a lengthened matter, therefore he appeals to God to cut short the time of tribulation. Ver. God says, then, I will keep it for him; for ever and ever shall it be lodged in Christ, and Isis people shall enjoy it throughout eternity. When heaven and earth witness, and the Lord himself swears, there remains no excuse for doubting, and faith joyfully reposes in confident expectation. Psalm 89 is the 89th psalm in the biblical Book of Psalms, part of the Hebrew Bible.In the Greek Septuagint version of the bible, and in its Latin translation in the Vulgate, this psalm is Psalm 88 in a slightly different numbering system. Thy faithfulness round about thee. Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, etc. Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy name. Ver. Psalm 89:1 Title: Probably a literary or musical term; Psalm 89:4 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verses 37, 45 and 48. 30. How bold is the challenge! The covenant, with the seed, shall stand for ever, but the seed must be a holy seed. 1 Kings 4:31)]. Spurgeon is known mostly for his sermons. 1. The psalmist goes on to show how such people are blessed. What a seed David has in the multitude which have sprung from him who was both his Son and his Lord. If mere creatures are struck with awe, the courtiers and favourites of heaven must be yet more reverent in the presence of the Great King. But they that know the "joyful sound." by Charles Spurgeon "The delightful study of the Psalms has yielded me boundless profit and ever growing pleasure. Is he not the Depository of it all? If his children forsake my law. Psalm 89 is the 89th psalm in the biblical Book of Psalms, part of the Hebrew Bible.In the Greek Septuagint version of the bible, and in its Latin translation in the Vulgate, this psalm is Psalm 88 in a slightly different numbering system. The days of his youth hast thou shortened. This is most fitly called a Maschil, for it is most instructive. When things look black we may bring forth our strong reasons, and debate the case with our condescending God, who has himself said, "Come now, and let us reason together.". But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him. Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O Lord. A similar expression is used, according to Curtius, by the Scythian ambassadors to Alexander. God here pledges the crown of his kingdom, the excellent beauty of his person, the essence of his nature. Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people. In his active going forth, tender mercy and goodness announce him, and faithful truth will tell his people he is there when he comes forth. He regards the rich and wealthy no more than the poor and necessitous: he snatches persons out of their mansion houses and hereditary seats, as well as out of almshouses and hospitals. But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted. In the severity of affliction. Warner, 1828. Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face. And hast not made him to stand in the battle. "See that fellow, what a fine horn he has; he will make the people run." Those who object to the doctrine of final perseverance say this: "It is true he will preserve the believer from the toils of the Devil and the temptations of the world, but not from the breaking forth of his own natural evil." Our kings have not reigned half their days, nor lived out half their lives. Ours, though thine. This is an incredible paradox to a blind world, that the believer who is sitting at this moment upon the dunghill of this earth, should at the same time be sitting in heaven in Christ, his glorious Head and representative, Ephesians 2:6. Allen P. Ross. How full of poetic fire is this verse! Where, then, O God, is thy faithfulness to thy covenant? Psalm 6. 22. Here it is supposed that we have intelligence in respect of "the joyful sound." —Bellarmine. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word. Surely in the Lord Jehovah have we both righteousness and strength. In how many particulars, especially when we survey that large range of characters to which we may give the denomination of wasted lives; there to behold peerless genius frittering itself away upon unworthy attainments, upon worthless performances; imagination that might adorn truth, if that were possible; wit, that might select and discriminate the true from the false; and eloquence that might enforce the true; —where do we find these? —Joseph Caryl. I quoted Psalm 89:7 and I thought I would share Spurgeon's thoughts on this verse: "God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the sailors. They have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed. The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hath covered him with shame. In these words briefly we may notice. To the Chief Musician. Resurrection is the basis upon which the sure mercies of David rest availably for faith (Acts 13:34). But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted. To divine wisdom. I might give further instances out of this Psalm, but enough is as good as a feast. —Capel Molyneux, 1855. 1. Psalms 89:6. Moses only was admitted to see His "back parts"; the people were kept at a distance, and the light of God's glory that they saw was so terrible to them, that they could not abide it. -- The immutable word of God. Sometimes it is put for the perfect righteousness which Christ the Son of God, as our Surety and Mediator, brought in, by his obedience to the law, and death on the cross, for the justification of guilty sinners: and this as I said, is frequently called the righteousness of God; and in this sense I understand it here in the text: "In thy righteousness shall they be exalted." (a) They may possibly—may fall, though not fall away. Thou hast set up the right hand of thy adversaries. In times of trouble it is the divine faithfulness which the soul hangs upon; this is the bower anchor of the soul, its hold fast, and its stay. 1. We are grieved when we feel its strokes, yet there is covenant mercy in them. —Williams, quoted by Ed. Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth. —David Dickson. Selah. —James Stratten, 1845. Does God love you? 29. (a) His own ability for the office. Ver. My Father. By which is probably intended the holy ones on earth. O, Spirit of the living God, be thou the inspirer of some master minds among us! As the God of truth, wilt thou not arise and tread down falsehood? Secondly. All God’s children are a praying family, and his only-begotten and well-beloved Son sets a noble example in this respect as well as in everything else. —Thomas Brooks. All other greatness is only for life: it is frequently less durable—at death it ends. Spurgeons's The Treasury of David". But I can imagine a state still more solemnly affecting than even this. Neither Christ nor his church can please the world, whichever way we turn scoffers will rail. Psalm 14. Let our complaints therefore be turned into thanksgiving; and in these verses we find that which will be in matter of praise and thanksgiving for us in the worst of times, whether upon a personal or public account. Ver. Psalm 19. I do bear in, my bosom the reproach, etc. PSALM 1 TITLE. Let us plead with the righteous Judge of all the earth, and beseech him to fulfil his word wherein he has promised that those who wait upon him shall renew their strength. Shall he, who deserves to be universally adored, be subject to general scorn? "Christ shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand", Isaiah 53:10. and his last words were, "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit"; and through his whole life he most constantly addressed God as his Father. How long? JOSEPH A ALEXANDER Psalms Commentary (1864) Spurgeon had high praise for Alexander's work writing that it "Occupies a first place among expositions. Ver. God is ever with his Son, Jesus Christ, in the plenitude of his faithfulness and mercy, to make him a continual blessing to his people. I know some join in oeternum to the noun misercordias, and not to the verb cantabo, making the sense to be this: I will always sing thy mercies which endure for ever. Ver. Ver. In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted. —C.H.S. 2. EXEGESIS: THE CONTEXT: This psalm is a community lament in which the psalmist recounts blessings conferred on the people by the Lord (vv. 18. These graces are the riches of his goodness and glory, misericordioe in oeternum, everlasting mercies, as reaching from everlasting predestination to everlasting glorification. O Lord, how long shall this threadbare taunt continue? —Geier. 52. Thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground. Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David. And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever." 43. nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. for ever? with them in Christ, and with Christ in their name. Not in their own righteousness. Ver. Nevertheless. He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation. 35. Neque enim exhiberetur veritas in impletione promissorum nisi proecederet misericordia in remissione peccatorum. If we think that God hath made man "in vain", because so many have short lives, and long afflictions in this world, it is true that God "hath made" them so; but it is not true, that therefore they are "made in vain". Here is another forcible point; the scoffers are the Lord's enemies as well as ours, and their reproach falls upon him as well as upon us; therefore we cry for the Lord's interposition. 26. 47-48. Our Saviour Jesus is also the Lord's Christ, or anointed. 23. I will choose one for them, and I will make a covenant with my chosen." 10. The verse has in it a voice of good cheer concerning sailors, and all dwellers on the waters; the hand of Jesus is over them, and as he found his first apostles by the sea, so we trust he still finds earnest disciples there. Psalm 17. "With whom my hand", etc. His qualifications for the work. Ver. He was thrice anointed in another sense also, once as Prophet, once as Priest, and once as King. 28-30. The regions of snow and the gardens of the sun are his dominions: both the land of the dawning and the home of the setting sun rejoice to own his sway. Ver. Though he was the party offended, yet the motion for a covenant comes from him...The Father of mercies saith, "The lost creatures cannot contract for themselves; and if another undertake not for them, they must perish; they cannot choose an undertaker for themselves. Hence it follows, that his people cannot be lost: for he would be a poor sort of a king who had or might have no subjects to reign over. Your transgressions are your own; they are separate from Christ; but God's love is not your own; it is Christ's: you receive it because you are one with him. (b) Emphasised. Exposition of Psalm 119:89-96. by Charles Spurgeon. Psalm 29 Commentary Heavenly Beings. Ver. 92. Psalm 4. For God himself who hath said, Ye are gods, hath also added, Ye shall die like men. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. 10. There is no such plague to bad men as the prosperity of the cause of Jesus. 23. What is strong to God! 24. God is greatly to be feared —. For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever. 28. The work required. My truth shall be ever with him; and acting in my name and power, he shall be exalted and glorified amongst men. Was man made only to be miserable? Among the choicest gifts that God ever gives to men are men; and therefore we read, concerning Christ, “When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men;” and those gifts were men, for “he gave some, apostles, and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers.” These were the choice ascension gifts of Christ. Alike God's†” rebellious earth as well psalm 89 commentary spurgeon subjects, princes as well as servants, parents well. 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