“ I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant, ”
I have made a covenant with my chosen - With my chosen one; that is, with David. The original is in the singular number, though by the Septuagint, and the Vulgate, and by Luther, it is rendered i...
(d) I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant, (d) The prophet shows what the promise of God was, on which he grounded his faith.
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...
made . solemnized. covenant. See 2 Samuel 7 , where Jehovah, being the only party, the covenant is unconditional, and. a "promise" among "the sure mercies of David", &c. But it looks beyon...
3 I have made a covenant with my chosen. (524) The more effectually to confirm himself and all the godly in the faith of the Divine promise, he introduces God himself as speaking and sancti...
I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant, I have made a covenant with my chosen - I have made a covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and renewed it with Moses and...
I have made a covenant with my chosen— Mudge reads this and the following verse in a parenthesis, and supposes the sense of the 2nd to be continued to the 5th. Thy faithfulness shalt thou establis...
I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant, I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David, my servant, Thy seed will I establish for ever. 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...
I have sworn. — The prophetic passage ( 2 Samuel 7:12 , seq. ) is in the poet’s mind.
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...
Nothing can be more beautiful or interesting than the transition which is here made from Ethan to Jehovah himself. The sacred writer had determined to make known God's mercies; but in so doing, the L...
I have made a covenant with my chosen ,.... Not with Abraham, as the Targum expresses it: but with David, as in the following clause; not David, literally understood, though he was chosen of the Lor...
I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant, Ver. 3. I have made a covenant with my chosen ] i.e. With Christ (who is God's elect one, Isa 42:1), and in him with al...
I have made a covenant with my chosen With David, whom I have chosen to the kingdom. Thy seed will I establish for ever , &c. I will perpetuate the kingdom to thy posterity; which was promised...
The Divine Mercy and Faithfulness. Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite. 1 I will sing of the mercies of the L ORD for eve...
With my chosen; with David, whom I have chosen to the kingdom.
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...
1 Kings 8:16 ; 2 Samuel 23:5 ; 2 Samuel 3:9 ; 2 Samuel 7:10-16 ; Acts 2:30 ; Ezekiel 34:23 ; Ezekiel 34:24 ; Hebrews 7:21 ; Hosea 3:5 ; Isaiah 42:1 ; Isaiah 55:3 ; Jeremiah 30:9 ; Jeremi...
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...
Chosen — With David; whom I have chosen to the kingdom.