“ For the LORDd is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king. ”
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 me...
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.
LXXXIX. The Covenant with David. The Ps. may be divided thus: Psalms 89:1-18 . The promise made to David (2 Samuel 7). Yahweh is all-powerful, so that He can, faithful so that He will, fulfil His...
defence . shield. Hebrew. ganan, to cover, or protect.
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 h...
For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.
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 tim...
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...
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...
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...
Psalms 89:1-52 THE foundation of this psalm is the promise in 2 Samuel 7:1-29 which guaranteed the perpetuity of the Davidic kingdom. Many of the characteristic phrases of the prophecy recur her...
No God like Our God Psalms 89:1-18 To understand this psalm we must turn to 2 Samuel 7:1-29 , where God guaranteed that David's kingdom should be continued to his descendants. Nathan's words a...
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 fort...
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 o...
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...
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...
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 Wh...
The Blessedness of Israel Declared. 15 Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O L ORD , i...
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...
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 i...
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 D...
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...
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 res...
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 89:1-19 ); they culminated in the D...
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, o...
Deuteronomy 33:27-29 ; Genesis 15:1 ; Isaiah 1:4 ; Isaiah 12:6 ; Isaiah 29:19 ; Isaiah 30:11 ; Isaiah 33:22 ; Isaiah 43:14 ; Isaiah 43:3 ; Psalms 44:4 ; Psalms 47:9 ; Psalms 62:1 ; Psalm...
The Psalm of Worshipful Praise Psalms 89:1-37 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...