CONTENTS
The Prophet is engaged, in this Psalm, in a subject which hath called forth the astonishment of pious minds in all ages of the church; namely, the seeming prosperity of the wicked, and the afflicted state of the godly. The Prophet describes (somewhat at large) the trial, and then tells us where alone he found the explanation of it, in the sanctuary of God.
A Psalm of Asaph.
Nothing can be more beautiful, as well as just, than the certain truth this verse contains: the Prophet lays it down for a maxim, at once fixed and incontrovertible, that whatsoever shall arise, or seem to arise, in the circumstances of the world, the great Judge of all the earth doth right; and is, in a special and distinguishing manner, good to Israel. They are clean in heart, being washed in the blood of Christ, regenerated by the Holy Ghost, and have those blessed promises which God the Father promised in the covenant of redemption; Ezekiel 36:25-28. We find the Prophet reasoning on the same subject as Asaph; Jeremiah 12:1, etc.