PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Psalms
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 746,590 words · 1615 reading sections
Psalms 84:8
Psalms 84:8 Ver. 8. O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer,.... the redemption of the captives, says Kimchi; for the building of the house, the temple, according to Jarchi; but rather for the courts of God, an opportunity of attending them, and for the presence of God in them; see Ps 84:2 in which he might hope to succee…
178 wordsSECTION 902Psalms 84:9
Psalms 84:9 Ver. 9. Behold, O God our shield,.... Which may be considered either as the character of God, who is addressed, who was David's shield, and the shield of his people, to protect and defend them from their enemies, and is the shield of all the saints; this favour encompasses them as a shield, and his truth i…
439 wordsSECTION 903Psalms 84:10
Psalms 84:10 Ver. 10. For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand,.... "One day"; so the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin, and all the Oriental versions; and so the Targum, Jarchi, and Kimchi, interpret it; one day in the house of God, in the world to come, so Arama: though rather reference is had to the seventh day…
741 wordsSECTION 904Psalms 84:11
Psalms 84:11 Ver. 11. For the Lord God is a sun and shield,.... Christ is "the sun of righteousness", and it is in the house of God that he arises upon his people with healing in his wings, Mal 4:2 he is like the sun, the great light, the fountain of light, the light of the world, that dispels darkness, makes day, and…
614 wordsSECTION 905Psalms 85:1
Psalms 85:1 INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 85 To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. This psalm is generally thought to have been composed after the return of the Jews from their captivity in Babylon; and yet when they were in some distress from their neighbours, either in the times of Ezra and Nehemiah, or in …
467 wordsSECTION 906Psalms 85:2
Psalms 85:2 Ver. 2. Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people,.... Took it from them, and laid it on Christ, who has bore it, and took it away, so as it shall never return more to their destruction; and by the application of his blood it is taken away from their own consciences; for this denotes the manifestation …
204 wordsSECTION 907Psalms 85:3
Psalms 85:3 Ver. 3. Thou hast taken away all thy wrath,.... Or "gathered" {n} it; sin occasions wrath, and the people of God are as deserving of it as others; but the Lord has gathered it up, and poured it forth upon his Son, and their surety; hence nothing of this kind shall ever fall upon them, either here or hereaf…
199 wordsSECTION 908Psalms 85:4
Psalms 85:4 Ver. 4. Turn us, O God of our salvation,.... Who appointed it in his purposes, contrived it in council, secured it in covenant, and sent his Son to effect it; the prayer to him is for converting grace, either at first, for first conversion is his work, and his only; or after backslidings, for he it is that…
162 wordsSECTION 909Psalms 85:5
Psalms 85:5 Ver. 5. Wilt thou be angry with us for ever?.... God is angry with the wicked every day, their life being a continued series of sin, without repentance for it, or confession of it; and he will be so for ever, of which they will have a constant sense and feeling; and is the worm that never dies, and the fir…
235 wordsSECTION 910Psalms 85:6
Psalms 85:6 Ver. 6. Wilt thou not revive us again,.... Their return from the Babylonish captivity was a reviving of them in their bondage, Ezr 9:8 and the conversion of them in the latter day will be a reviving them again, be as life from the dead; they are like the dry bones in Ezekiel's vision, or like the dead in t…
303 wordsSECTION 911Psalms 85:7
Psalms 85:7 Ver. 7. Show us thy mercy, O Lord,.... Or, "thy grace" {o} and goodness, the riches of which are shown forth in Christ; the mercy promised to Abraham and others, long expected, wished, and prayed for; his pardoning mercy, justification, salvation, and eternal life, by his free grace: and grant us thy salv…
109 wordsSECTION 912Psalms 85:8
Psalms 85:8 Ver. 8. I will hear what God the Lord will speak,.... This the psalmist says in the name of the people of the Jews, whom he represents, in all the foregoing expostulations and petitions, refusing to be still and quiet, and wait and listen for an answer to the above request from the Lord, who speaks by his …
370 wordsSECTION 913Psalms 85:9
Psalms 85:9 Ver. 9. Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him,.... That have a true sense of sin and folly, are humbled for it, hate it, and depart from it, and do not return unto it; have a reverential affection for God, a sense of his goodness, particularly his pardoning grace and mercy, and fear him on accoun…
575 wordsSECTION 914Psalms 85:10
Psalms 85:10 Ver. 10. Mercy and truth are met together,.... Or "grace and truth" {p}, which are in Christ, and come by him; and so may be said to meet in him, the glorious Person, the Author of salvation, before mentioned, Joh 1:14, these may be considered as perfections in God, displayed in salvation by Christ: "merc…
493 wordsSECTION 915Psalms 85:11
Psalms 85:11 Ver. 11. Truth shall spring out of the earth,.... Either the Gospel, the word of truth, which sprung up at once in the land of Judea, as if it came out of the earth; and from Zion and Jerusalem it came forth into the Gentile world: or else the truth of grace God desires in the inward parts, and which spri…
290 wordsSECTION 916Psalms 85:12
Psalms 85:12 Ver. 12. Yea, the Lord shall give that which is good,.... Meaning not merely temporal good, as rain in particular, as some think, because of the following clause; but that which is spiritually good, his good Spirit and his grace, grace and glory: nor will he withhold any good thing from his people; every …
151 wordsSECTION 917Psalms 85:13
Psalms 85:13 Ver. 13. Righteousness shall go before him,.... The incarnate Saviour, the increase of our land, and fruit of the virgin's womb; and righteousness may be put for a righteous person, as Aben Ezra interprets it; and may design John the Baptist, a holy and just man, Mr 6:20, who was the forerunner and harbin…
180 wordsSECTION 918Psalms 86:1
Psalms 86:1 INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 86 A Prayer of David. The title is the same with the Seventeenth Psalm, and the subject of it is much alike: it was written by David, when in distress, and his life was sought after; very likely when he was persecuted by Saul, and fled from him; so Aben Ezra, Jarchi, and Kimchi: and …
479 wordsSECTION 919Psalms 86:2
Psalms 86:2 Ver. 2. Preserve my soul,.... Or life, which Saul sought after; and this prayer was heard: David was often remarkably preserved by the Lord from his attempts upon him; and so was the soul or life of Christ preserved in his infancy from Herod's malice; in the wilderness from wild beasts, and from perishing …
414 wordsSECTION 920Psalms 86:3
Psalms 86:3 Ver. 3. Be merciful unto me, O Lord,.... In my distressed and miserable condition, being an object of mercy, pity, and compassion; this petition is used by Christ in Ps 41:10 for I cry unto thee daily; or "all the day"; every day, and several times in a day, Ps 55:17 constant and importunate prayer is the…
83 wordsSECTION 921Psalms 86:4
Psalms 86:4 Ver. 4. Rejoice the soul of thy servant,.... With the discoveries of love, of pardoning grace, and mercy, before made sad with sin or sufferings; and with the light of God's countenance, before troubled with the hidings of his face: this may be applied to Christ, in sorrowful circumstances, who was made fu…
184 wordsSECTION 922Psalms 86:5
Psalms 86:5 Ver. 5. For thou, Lord, art good,.... Essentially and independently good, from whom every good and perfect gift comes; good in himself, and good to others; good to all, in a providential way; and good to his own special people in a way of grace: this is asserted by Christ, Mt 19:17 and ready to forgive; t…
194 wordsSECTION 923Psalms 86:6
Psalms 86:6 Ver. 6. Give ear, O Lord, unto my prayer,.... As this psalm is called, in the title of it; his own prayer, and not another's, not one composed for him, but what was composed by him; this petition is repeated, as to the sense of it, from Ps 86:1 to show his importunity to be heard: and attend to the voice …
128 wordsSECTION 924Psalms 86:7
Psalms 86:7 Ver. 7. In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee,.... David had his troubles, both inward and outward, before and after he came to the throne, in private and public life; and every good man has his troubles; and there are some particular times or days of trouble; which trouble arises from different c…
262 wordsSECTION 925Psalms 86:8
Psalms 86:8 Ver. 8. Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord,.... Among the angels of heaven, as the Targum, in the king's Bible; see Mt 24:36, and who are sometimes called gods, and among whom there is none like to the Lord; see Ps 97:7 or among civil magistrates, he being King of kings, and Lord of lords,…
192 wordsSECTION 926Psalms 86:9
Psalms 86:9 Ver. 9. All nations whom thou hast made,.... All nations, or the inhabitants of all nations, are made by the Lord, and of the blood of one man, Ac 17:26, and which as it shows the obligation of all men to come and worship, as is said should be; so likewise that the Lord, who has made them, is able to make …
247 wordsSECTION 927Psalms 86:10
Psalms 86:10 Ver. 10. For thou art great,.... In his nature, and the perfections of it; in his power, wisdom, truth, faithfulness, love, grace, and mercy; and in all his persons; the Father is great, greater than all; the Son is the great God, and our Saviour; and the Spirit, which is in his people, is greater than he…
178 wordsSECTION 928Psalms 86:11
Psalms 86:11 Ver. 11. Teach me thy way, O Lord,.... The methods of thy grace, which thou hast taken, and dost take, in the salvation of men, in the contrivance, impetration, and application of it; or the way which thou hast marked out for thy people to walk in, the way of thy commandments: each of these the psalmist h…
292 wordsSECTION 929Psalms 86:12
Psalms 86:12 Ver. 12. I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart,.... And under that consideration, that he was his God, and which itself is sufficient matter of praise; this makes him amiable, and such he is, love itself: this is a blessing of pure grace, and is the foundation of all other blessings, and co…
189 wordsSECTION 930Psalms 86:13
Psalms 86:13 Ver. 13. For great is thy mercy toward me,.... Both in things temporal and spiritual; an instance of which follows: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell; from a very distressed and disconsolate condition, being almost in despair, under a deep sense of sin, and a fearful apprehension of th…
1,046 wordsSECTION 931Psalms 87:1
Psalms 87:1 INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 87 A Psalm or Song for the sons of Korah. Whether this psalm was composed by David, in a view of the temple to be built by his son Solomon; or whether by one that returned from the Babylonish captivity, who wrote it for the comfort of those that wept at the laying of the foundation o…
547 wordsSECTION 932Psalms 87:2
Psalms 87:2 Ver. 2. The Lord loveth the gates of Zion,.... Which the Targum interprets of the schools, as preferable to the synagogues: the Lord loves Zion herself; that is, the church, and therefore has chosen it for his habitation, took up his rest and residence in it, has founded it, and set Christ as King over it,…
269 wordsSECTION 933Psalms 87:3
Psalms 87:3 Ver. 3. Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God.] Which is to be understood not of the city of Jerusalem literally, which was a magnificent city, compact together, full of inhabitants, and spacious houses, the metropolis of Judea, and seat of the kings of Judah; and what was most glorious of all …
435 wordsSECTION 934Psalms 87:4
Psalms 87:4 Ver. 4. I will make mention of Rahab,.... Not of Rahab the harlot, as Jerom and others of the ancients {y} interpret it; for the letters of both words are not the same in Hebrew; though mention is made of her in the Gospel, and Gospel times, in the genealogy of Christ, and by two of the apostles, Mt 1:5, b…
838 wordsSECTION 935Psalms 87:5
Psalms 87:5 Ver. 5. And of Zion it shall be said,.... The same with the city of God, the church before commended: this and that man was born in her; this and that great man, in opposition to a mean person, in the preceding verse: "or a man and man" {d}; men of all sorts, and of different nations, Jews and Gentiles, a…
302 wordsSECTION 936Psalms 87:6
Psalms 87:6 Ver. 6. The Lord shall count when he writeth up the people, &]. Not in the Lamb's book of life; for that was written from eternity, Re 13:8 but in the writing of the house of Israel, among the living in Jerusalem, and with his righteous ones; which is done at effectual calling, and when admitted members of…
225 wordsSECTION 937Psalms 87:7
Psalms 87:7 Ver. 7. As well the singers as the players on the instruments shall be there,.... In Zion, in the church; signifying that there should be great spiritual joy there when the above things should be accomplished; great joy in the churches, because of the conversion of Jews and Gentiles; and great joy in the p…
404 wordsSECTION 938Psalms 88:1
Psalms 88:1 INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 88 A Song [or] Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite. Of the word "maalath", See Gill on "Ps 53:1". "Leannoth" signifies "to answer". Perhaps this song was to be sung alternately, or by responses. Both words are thoug…
839 wordsSECTION 939Psalms 88:2
Psalms 88:2 Ver. 2. Let my prayer come before thee,.... Not before men, as hypocrites desire, but before the Lord; let it not be shut out, but be admitted; and let it come with acceptance, as it does when it ascends before God, out of the hands of the angel before the throne, perfumed with the much incense of his medi…
98 wordsSECTION 940Psalms 88:3
Psalms 88:3 Ver. 3. For my soul is full of troubles,.... Or "satiated or glutted" {e} with them, as a stomach full of meat that can receive no more, to which the allusion is; having been fed with the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, so that he had his fill of trouble: every man is full of trouble, of on…
421 wordsSECTION 941Psalms 88:4
Psalms 88:4 Ver. 4. I am counted with them that go down into the pit,.... With the dead, with them that are worthy of death, with malefactors that are judicially put to death, and are not laid in a common grave, but put into a pit together: thus Christ was reckoned and accounted of by the Jews; the sanhedrim counted h…
136 wordsSECTION 942Psalms 88:5
Psalms 88:5 Ver. 5. Free among the dead,.... If he was a freeman, it was only among the dead, not among the living; if he was free of any city, it was of the city of the dead; he looked upon himself as a dead man, as one belonging to the state of the dead, who are free from all relations, and from all business and lab…
323 wordsSECTION 943Psalms 88:6
Psalms 88:6 Ver. 6. Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit,.... The Targum interprets it of "captivity which was like unto the lowest pit;'' and so Jarchi and Kimchi. Some understand it of a prison or dungeon, into which the psalmist was put; it may be interpreted of the pit of the grave, into which Christ was laid; th…
230 wordsSECTION 944Psalms 88:7
Psalms 88:7 Ver. 7. The wrath lieth hard upon me,.... So some good men apprehend, when they are under afflictive dispensations of Providence, and are left of God, and have not his immediate presence, and the discoveries of his love; though fury is not in him, nor does any wrath in reality fall upon them, only it seems…
234 wordsSECTION 945Psalms 88:8
Psalms 88:8 Ver. 8. Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me,.... His familiar friends, who were well known to him, and he to them: it is a mercy and privilege to have good acquaintance, and hearty faithful friends, to converse and advise with, whether about things civil or religious; and it is an affliction t…
489 wordsSECTION 946Psalms 88:9
Psalms 88:9 Ver. 9. Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction,.... Or dropped tears, as the Targum, by which grief was vented; see Ps 6:7. Lord, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee; in prayer, as the Targum adds, this being a prayer gesture: notwithstanding his troubles continued an…
127 wordsSECTION 947Psalms 88:10
Psalms 88:10 Ver. 10. Wilt thou show wonders to the dead?.... The Lord does show wonders to some that are spiritually dead, dead in Adam, dead in law, dead in trespasses and sins, by quickening them; whereby the wonders of his grace and love, and of his power, and the exceeding greatness of it, are displayed; for the …
2,563 wordsSECTION 948Psalms 89:1
Psalms 89:1 INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 89 Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite. Who this Ethan was is not certain. Kimchi takes him to be the same with Ethan the wise man, a grandson of Judah, 1Ki 4:31. But seeing he lived some hundreds of years before the times of David, it is not likely that he should be the writer of this psa…
963 wordsSECTION 949Psalms 89:2
Psalms 89:2 Ver. 2. For I have said,.... That is, in his heart he had said, he had thought of it, was assured of it, strongly concluded it, from the Spirit and word of God; he believed it, and therefore he spoke it; having it from the Lord, it was all one as if he had spoke it:…
59 wordsSECTION 950Psalms 89:3
Psalms 89:3 Ver. 3. 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 Lord to be his servant, and a covenant was made with him, and a promise made to him of the perpetuity of …
336 wordsSECTION 951Psalms 89:4
Psalms 89:4 Ver. 4. Thy seed will I establish for ever,.... Meaning not the natural seed of David, at least not only them; whose family was indeed preserved, though in very low circumstances, until the Messiah came, who sprung from thence, Lu 1:27, but the spiritual seed of Christ, to whom it was promised that he shou…
321 wordsSECTION 952Psalms 89:5
Psalms 89:5 Ver. 5. And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Lord,.... Which, by a prosopopceia, may be understood of the heavens literally, in the same sense as other inanimate creatures praise the Lord, Ps 148:3, or mystically of the church, consisting of heaven born souls, and whose doctrines and ordinances are …
352 wordsSECTION 953Psalms 89:6
Psalms 89:6 Ver. 6. For who in the heaven can be compared unto the Lord?.... Or "ranked" {n}, or put upon a par, with him; none of the angels in heaven; for though they are holy, wise, knowing, powerful, faithful, kind, and merciful creatures, yet not to be compared with the Lord for holiness, wisdom, knowledge, stren…
227 wordsSECTION 954Psalms 89:7
Psalms 89:7 Ver. 7. God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints,.... Which Jarchi and Kimchi understand of angels again, and render it "God is to be feared in the great assembly of them"; for they are a very large number, even an innumerable company, in and by whom the Lord is feared and worshipped, Heb …
380 wordsSECTION 955Psalms 89:8
Psalms 89:8 Ver. 8. O Lord God of hosts,.... Of all the hosts of heaven, the sun, moon, and stars, and of all the heavenly hosts of angels, of all the armies in heaven, and the inhabitants of the earth: who is a strong Lord like unto thee? he is Jah, or Jehovah, and he alone is so, and is the most High in all the ear…
285 wordsSECTION 956Psalms 89:9
Psalms 89:9 Ver. 9. Thou rulest the raging of the sea,.... The power, pride, and elation of it, when it swells, and foams, and rages, and becomes boisterous, and threatens vessels upon it with utter ruin and destruction; but the Lord, who has it under his dominion and government, restrains it; he has made and can mana…
356 wordsSECTION 957Psalms 89:10
Psalms 89:10 Ver. 10. Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain,.... Or Egypt, as in Ps 87:4 or the Egyptians, and particularly Pharaoh their king; so the Targum explains it, "Rahab or the proud one, this is Pharaoh the wicked;'' who and his people were broken to pieces by the plagues that were brought …
351 wordsSECTION 958Psalms 89:11
Psalms 89:11 Ver. 11. The heavens are thine,.... They are made and inhabited by him, they are the work of his hands, and the seat of his majesty, and the throne of his glory; the angels of heaven are his, his creatures and servants; the several heavens are his, the airy, starry, and third heavens; the place and state …
12,447 wordsSECTION 959Psalms 90:1
Psalms 90:1 INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 90 A Prayer of Moses the man of God. Here begins the fourth part of the book of Psalms, and with the most ancient psalm throughout the whole book, it being written by Moses; not by one of that name that lived in later times; nor by one of his posterity; nor by some one who composed i…
830 wordsSECTION 960Psalms 90:2
Psalms 90:2 Ver. 2. Before the mountains were brought forth,.... Or "were born" {b}, and came forth out of the womb and bowels of the earth, and were made to rise and stand up at the command of God, as they did when he first created the earth; and are mentioned not only because of their firmness and stability, but the…
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