Psalms 89:2-4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 Lord himself is introduced as proclaiming them. Reader, pause, and recollect, who the speaker is in these verses; and then attend to the most blessed and gracious declarations contained in them. Mark what the Lord God saith: Mercy shall be built up forever. And how? In Christ: for He is the first-born in the womb of mercy, the promised mercy, which carne in with the fall, when it was said, the seed of the woman shall bruise the serpent's head; Genesis 3:15. And hence, when Zacharias sang concerning Christ's approach, he called him by this very name, the Mercy promised; Luke 1:72. Reader, indulge the delightful thought, for it is blessed. Christ is indeed the mercy, built up by Jehovah forever. For in him shall men be blessed; and out of him there is not a single mercy for the fallen race of Adam. Precious, precious Jesus! when I consider what a mercy thou art to thy people, and thy Father's mercy also, to all the ends of the earth, how doth my soul rejoice in the consolation! Mercy shall be built up forever. It is blessed to observe how, in reference to this, in all ages of the church, the Holy Ghost comforted the people with an assurance that Jehovah would build the tabernacle of David, which was fallen down; that is, our poor ruined nature, and restore the desolations of many generations. Amos 9:11; Isaiah 61:4; Revelation 21:3. Jehovah, having thus made proclamation that the holy mountain of his will and pleasure, next proceeds to inform the church how the eternal edifice of mercy is established: I have made a covenant with my chosen. Here the church is referred to Jehovah's covenant-purpose of redemption, founded in his own everlasting love, and assured to the church in the council of peace between the persons of the Godhead before the world began. Hence all those glorious scriptures, in which Jehovah is represented as transacting the eternal purposes of redemption with his dear Son, Isaiah 49:1-12; Psalms 72:7; Psalms 72:7; Titus 1:2; and hence all those promises made to David, as typical of Christ, with which David's history so much abounds. 2 Samuel 7:1-13.