A Commentary on the Psalms (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Psalm Lxvipart of the best commentators have assigned to the word the sense of textit{meadows; and such textit{must be the meaning of it in Isaiah xxx. 23. Thus the construction of the whole verse becomes plain, and the sense simple. "13, textit{corn. See Gen. xli. 35, 49, and c. . The sixty-sixth Psalm is entirely one of thanksgiving to God for deliverances and general mercies. The release from Egyptian bondage is especially alluded to in the 6th verse. The 8th and following verses are not applicable to David's time; but they refer unmistakably to some national trial, from which the people were delivered by the power and goodness of God. Kimchi says, "this Psalm is said of textit{the gathering of the exiles of Israel" (nVto Yjp). The contents, however, as Hengstenberg observes, are altogether against this idea. See verses 9 and 17. Cocceius refers it to the Church of the New Testament, rather than to that of the Old. In the first twelve verses the plural number is used, and in the remaining eight the singular; whence it appears that the Psalm consists of two parts. The first part was probably chanted by the congregation generally, and the second by a single voice. 2. nHJ;I Tto3 1Dfy lit., textit{make glory His praise, or textit{make His praise a glory, i. e. let your praising God be made by you an object of great glory. " Make for yourselves glory in singing His praise." Mendelssohn's Beor. D and when constructed with a double accusative signifies textit{to make, as in Is. xxviii. 15, and other places. 3. T1? iOteTID, textit{how terrible is Thy work. The noun here, as Hupfeld and Ges. remark, is singular. See Ewald, Lehrb., 256. textit{b. 1tfnV This verb primarily signifies textit{to lie, to feign, and in this place it means, not textit{to submit really and truly, but textit{to feign submission. So in ...