“ Thou hast made his gloryf to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground. ”
Thou hast made his glory to cease - Margin,” brightness.” Luther, “Thou destroyest his purity.” The original word means brightness, sp endour. The literal translation here would be, “Thou causest...
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...
Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground. Thou hast made his glory to cease - The kingly dignity is destroyed, and there is neither king nor throne remaining.
But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed. -The people of the covenant contrast the sad state of things actually with what the covenant seemed to promise. S...
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...
Thou hast... — Literally, Thou hast made to cease from his brightness — i.e. , the brightness of the sun, promised in Psalms 89:36 . To the ground. — From being as the sun in heaven.
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...
“A Consuming Fire” Psalms 89:38-52 Here the psalmist falls into expostulation and lament. Whether he alludes to the time when Jerusalem was taken by Shishak in the days of Rehoboam, 1 Kings 14...
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...
Here is a new train of thoughts, arising out of the view of God's covenant love in redemption, celebrated before. The degeneracy of Israel, and the captivity of the people (probably with an eye to th...
Thou hast made his glory to cease ,.... The glory of his deity, though it did not properly cease, yet it seemed to do so, being covered, and out of sight, and seen but by a very few, while he appear...
Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground. Ver. 44. Thou hast made his glory to cease ] Heb. his brightness, the splendent glory and dignity of the kingdom. Some un...
But thou hast cast off Having hitherto declared the certainty of God's promises, he now proceeds to show the unsuitableness of the present dispensations of God's providence thereunto, and humbly ex...
Complaints and Expostulations; David's Expostulation with God. 38 But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been w...
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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 i...
Psalms 89:1-2 . 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 faithful...
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...
Lament and Comfort
1 Kings 12:16-20 ; 1 Kings 14:25-28 ; 1 Samuel 4:21 ; 1 Samuel 4:22 ; 2 Thessalonians 2:3-10 ; Daniel 7:20-25 ; Lamentations 4:1 ; Lamentations 4:2 ; Psalms 89:39