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John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Psalms
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 746,590 words · 1615 reading sections
Psalms 94:15
Psalms 94:15 Ver. 15. But judgment shall return unto righteousness,.... Which may be understood either of the judgment and righteousness of God, which seemed to be parted, and stand at a distance from each other; his conduct and government of the world from his justice; the righteous being persecuted and afflicted, an…
2,706 wordsSECTION 1022Psalms 95:1
Psalms 95:1 INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 95 This psalm, though without a title, was written by David, as appears from Heb 4:7, and to him the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions ascribe it. It belongs to the times of the Messiah, as Kimchi observes; the apostle applies it to the Jews of his time…
406 wordsSECTION 1023Psalms 95:2
Psalms 95:2 Ver. 2. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving,.... Come with the sacrifice of praise, there being no other in the days of the Messiah, all ceremonial sacrifices being put an end to when his sacrifice was offered up; so Arama observes, that the offering of thanksgiving shall remain, or be left i…
311 wordsSECTION 1024Psalms 95:3
Psalms 95:3 Ver. 3. For the Lord is a great God,.... Christ is truly and properly God, wherefore divine service is to be performed unto him; particularly singing psalms, setting forth therein his greatness and glory: and he is a great one; great in power, wisdom, justice, truth, mercy, and grace; greatness is to be as…
168 wordsSECTION 1025Psalms 95:4
Psalms 95:4 Ver. 4. In his hand are the deep places of the earth,.... The "penetrals" {c} of it; not only what are penetrated by men, the minerals that are in it; but what are of such deep recess as to be penetrated only by the Lord himself; these are in the hands and power of Christ, which he can search into, discove…
188 wordsSECTION 1026Psalms 95:5
Psalms 95:5 Ver. 5. The sea is his, and he made it,.... He made it, and therefore it is, and all creatures in it; he sets bounds to it, and its waves, and restrains the raging of it at his pleasure, Mt 8:26, and his hands formed the dry land; the whole world, all besides the sea, the vast continent; he is the Maker o…
99 wordsSECTION 1027Psalms 95:6
Psalms 95:6 Ver. 6. O come, let us worship and bow down,.... Before him who is the Rock of our salvation, the great God and great King, the Creator of the ends of the earth, the proper object of all religious worship and adoration: Christ is to be worshipped with every part of external worship under the New Testament …
292 wordsSECTION 1028Psalms 95:7
Psalms 95:7 Ver. 7. For he is our God,.... God over all, blessed for ever, truly and properly God, and therefore to be worshipped: "our God"; in whom we have interest, who became our head and surety in covenant; took upon him our nature, is our "Immanuel", God with as, which increases the obligation to worship him; th…
577 wordsSECTION 1029Psalms 95:8
Psalms 95:8 Ver. 8. Harden not your hearts,.... Against Christ, against his Gospel, against all the light and evidence of it. There is a natural hardness of the heart, owing to the corruption of nature; and an habitual hardness, acquired by a constant continuance and long custom in sinning; and there is a judicial har…
414 wordsSECTION 1030Psalms 95:9
Psalms 95:9 Ver. 9. When your fathers tempted me,.... Or, "where" {i}; that is, in the wilderness, particularly at Meribah and Massah; it was Christ they tempted, as appears from 1Co 10:9 proved me: had proof of his power, goodness, and mercy, in providing for them, and in the preservation of them: or "tried" {k} him…
228 wordsSECTION 1031Psalms 95:10
Psalms 95:10 Ver. 10. Forty years long was I grieved with this generation,.... The generation of the wilderness, as the Jews commonly call them; and which was a stubborn and a rebellious one, whose heart and spirit were not right with God, Ps 78:8, wherefore, speaking after the manner of men, God was grieved with them…
426 wordsSECTION 1032Psalms 95:11
Psalms 95:11 Ver. 11. Unto whom I sware in my wrath,.... Being angry with them, he sware for the confirmation of what he said; the form of the oath was, "as truly as I live"; he sware by himself, for he could swear by no greater; see Nu 14:21 that they should not enter into my rest; the land of Canaan, or Israel, as …
172 wordsSECTION 1033Psalms 96:1
Psalms 96:1 INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 96 This psalm was written by David, as appears from 1Ch 16:7 to whom it is ascribed by the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and all the Oriental versions. This and part of Psalm 105 were first composed and sung at the bringing of the ark from the house of Obededom to the city of David; and…
377 wordsSECTION 1034Psalms 96:2
Psalms 96:2 Ver. 2. Sing unto the Lord,.... Which is repeated to show the vehemency of the speaker, and the importance of the work exhorted to: this being the third time that the word Lord or Jehovah is mentioned, have led some to think of the trinity of Persons, Father, Son, and Spirit, the one only Jehovah, to whom …
304 wordsSECTION 1035Psalms 96:3
Psalms 96:3 Ver. 3. Declare his glory among the Heathen,.... What a glorious Person the Messiah is; the brightness of his Father's glory; having all the perfections of deity in him; how the glory of God appears in him, and in all that he has done; and especially in the work of redemption, in which the glory of divine …
252 wordsSECTION 1036Psalms 96:4
Psalms 96:4 Ver. 4. For the Lord is great,.... In the perfections of his nature; in the works of his hands, of creation, providence, and redemption; and in the several offices he bears and executes: and greatly to be praised; because of his greatness and glory; See Gill on "Ps 48:1", he is to be feared above all god…
102 wordsSECTION 1037Psalms 96:5
Psalms 96:5 Ver. 5. For all the gods of the nations are idols,.... Or are "nothings" {o}, nonentities; such as have not, and never had, any being, at least many of them, but in the fancies of men; and all of them such as have no divinity in them; an idol is nothing in the world, 1Co 8:4, but the Lord made the heaven…
117 wordsSECTION 1038Psalms 96:6
Psalms 96:6 Ver. 6. Honour and majesty are before him,.... He being set down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, and having honour and majesty laid upon him; being arrayed in robes of majesty, crowned with glory and honour, sitting on the same throne of glory with his Father, and having a sc…
406 wordsSECTION 1039Psalms 96:7
Psalms 96:7 Ver. 7. Give unto the Lord, O ye kindreds of the people,.... Or families {p}: the Targum is, "give unto the Lord a song, ye families of the people;'' by whom are meant not the tribes and families of the people of Israel, but the Gentiles, the nations of the world, who were to be blessed in the seed of Ab…
144 wordsSECTION 1040Psalms 96:8
Psalms 96:8 Ver. 8. Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name,.... Or "the glory of his name" {q}; whose name is glorious and excellent, because of his nature and perfections, because of the works done by him, and because of his benefits and blessings bestowed on his creatures; wherefore it is his due, and their …
343 wordsSECTION 1041Psalms 96:9
Psalms 96:9 Ver. 9. O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness,.... See Gill on "Ps 29:2", in this and the three preceding verses there is a manifest allusion to the form of addresses made to kings in the eastern nations; who being arrayed, and seated in a majestic manner, with all the marks of royal honour and dign…
221 wordsSECTION 1042Psalms 96:10
Psalms 96:10 Ver. 10. Say among the Heathen,.... This is a direction to such as were converted to Christ among the Jews, or were first called out from among the Gentiles; or to the ministers of the word, the apostles and first preachers of the Gospel more especially, who were sent into all the world to preach the Gosp…
487 wordsSECTION 1043Psalms 96:11
Psalms 96:11 Ver. 11. Let the heavens rejoice,.... At the coming and kingdom of Christ; at what is said and done in the Gentile world; even the hosts of heaven, as the Targum, the angels that dwell there, and never left their habitation and first estate: these rejoiced at the incarnation of Christ, at the first settin…
405 wordsSECTION 1044Psalms 96:12
Psalms 96:12 Ver. 12. Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein,.... Not the field of the world, but of the church, separated from others by distinguishing grace; the peculiar property of Christ, cultivated and manured by his Spirit and grace, and abounding with the fruits and flowers thereof; of a wilderness b…
210 wordsSECTION 1045Psalms 96:13
Psalms 96:13 Ver. 13. Before the Lord,.... At the face of him, in his presence; meeting him as he comes, and rejoicing at his coming: this clause is to be joined to everyone in the two preceding verses: for he cometh, for he cometh; which is repeated to show the certainty of Christ's coming, and the importance of it,…
321 wordsSECTION 1046Psalms 97:1
Psalms 97:1 INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 97 This psalm is ascribed to David by the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions. It is of the same argument, and upon the same subject, as the preceding, the coming and kingdom of Christ; and that it respects his first coming into the world, when angels wer…
551 wordsSECTION 1047Psalms 97:2
Psalms 97:2 Ver. 2. Clouds and darkness are round about him,.... Either as a garment; so Apollinarius paraphrases it, "near is the King clothed with a cloud and tempest;'' and it is usual with the Heathens to represent their deities as surrounded or clothed with a cloud {s}: here the allusion is to the tabernacle an…
433 wordsSECTION 1048Psalms 97:3
Psalms 97:3 Ver. 3. A fire goeth before him, &c,] Not the fiery law, which went forth from his right hand on Mount Sinai; but rather his Gospel, which, as it enlightens, warms, comforts, and refreshes his people, searches, torments, and destroys his enemies, and is the savour of death unto death to them; see Jer 23:29…
300 wordsSECTION 1049Psalms 97:4
Psalms 97:4 Ver. 4. His lightnings enlightened the world,.... Either the doctrines of the Gospel, compared thereunto, because of the swift progress they made, and the large extent of them in the world, in a very little time; by the apostles they were published in all nations, and were the means of enlightening them in…
178 wordsSECTION 1050Psalms 97:5
Psalms 97:5 Ver. 5. The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord,.... Kimchi interprets the "hills" of the kings of the wicked; and it was verified in Herod and his nobles, and the citizens of Jerusalem, who, when they heard of the coming of the Messiah, of the birth of the King of the Jews, were exceedingly …
230 wordsSECTION 1051Psalms 97:6
Psalms 97:6 Ver. 6. The heavens declare his righteousness,.... His justice in punishing his enemies; the lightning and the thunder in the heavens, the tokens of his wrath, and instruments of it; his wrath itself, which is revealed from heaven, Ro 1:18, or the inhabitants of heaven, as Aben Ezra; the angels of heaven; …
258 wordsSECTION 1052Psalms 97:7
Psalms 97:7 Ver. 7. Confounded be all they that serve graven images,.... Images of gold, silver, and stone, graven by art and man's device; to serve and worship which must be the grossest ignorance and stupidity, which, when convinced of, must fill with shame and confusion: this may be considered either as a prayer, t…
592 wordsSECTION 1053Psalms 97:8
Psalms 97:8 Ver. 8. Zion heard, and was glad,.... Or, the congregation of Zion, as the Targum; the church of Christ, and the members of it, called Zion, in allusion to the mountain of that name, in which the temple stood; a type of the church, Heb 12:22, these heard the Gospel, the good news and glad tidings of good t…
257 wordsSECTION 1054Psalms 97:9
Psalms 97:9 Ver. 9. For thou, Lord, art high above all the earth,.... Above all the inhabitants of the earth, as the Targum; he is highly exalted above every name, men of the greatest name that is named in the world; he is made higher than the heavens, and the inhabitants of it; and has all power in heaven and earth, …
182 wordsSECTION 1055Psalms 97:10
Psalms 97:10 Ver. 10. Ye that love the Lord, hate evil,.... The evil of sin, which is to be hated, because of the evil nature of it, it being exceeding sinful; and because of its evil consequences, bringing death, ruin, and destruction with it to the souls of men, unless grace prevents; and disquietude, distress, and …
400 wordsSECTION 1056Psalms 97:11
Psalms 97:11 Ver. 11. Light is sown for the righteous,.... Who are made righteous by the obedience of Christ, and live soberly and righteously; the light of joy and gladness, as it is explained in the next clause; see Es 8:16 so, fowv, "light", is frequently used by Homer {x} for joy and gladness: these sometimes are …
338 wordsSECTION 1057Psalms 97:12
Psalms 97:12 Ver. 12. Rejoice in the Lord, ye righteous,.... In the word of the Lord, as the Targum; in Christ, the essential Word, in his person, the greatness, glory, and fulness of it; in his righteousness, and in salvation by him, and that always; see Php 4:4, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness; o…
180 wordsSECTION 1058Psalms 98:1
Psalms 98:1 INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 98 A Psalm. This is the only psalm throughout the whole book which is so called, without any other additional word, epithet, or inscription. The Targum calls it a psalm of prophecy, or a prophetic psalm, as indeed it is; for it respects time to come, as Jarchi observes, even the Gosp…
782 wordsSECTION 1059Psalms 98:2
Psalms 98:2 Ver. 2. The Lord hath made known his salvation,.... Which was appointed him, he undertook, came to perform, and has effected; this, though wrought out, is unknown to men, especially to the Gentile world, who had no prophecy, promise, or revelation of the Messiah, and salvation by him; but now this is made …
311 wordsSECTION 1060Psalms 98:3
Psalms 98:3 Ver. 3. He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel,.... His mercy promised them, in raising up a Saviour to them, one that should be the glory of them; and his truth, in fulfilling that and every other promise concerning him; see Lu 1:72, all the ends of the earth have seen the …
167 wordsSECTION 1061Psalms 98:4
Psalms 98:4 Ver. 4. Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all the earth,.... That is, all the inhabitants of the earth, as the Targum, to whom the joyful sound of the Gospel comes; See Gill on "Ps 95:1", make a loud noise, rejoice, and sing praise; exalt and extend the voice to the highest pitch, in the most musical and…
102 wordsSECTION 1062Psalms 98:5
Psalms 98:5 Ver. 5. Sing unto the Lord with the harp,.... Playing upon that at the same time: here and in the following verse is an allusion to Old Testament worship, and the manner of performing that; not that this should be done in New Testament times, only New Testament worship is expressed in Old Testament languag…
153 wordsSECTION 1063Psalms 98:6
Psalms 98:6 Ver. 6. With trumpet and sound of cornet,.... The Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and Ethiopic versions, render it with ductile trumpets, such as were made of silver, as the two trumpets for the calling of the assembly, Nu 10:2 to which the allusion seems to be here, called "asosra" by Josephus {c} according t…
222 wordsSECTION 1064Psalms 98:7
Psalms 98:7 Ver. 7. Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof,.... See Gill on "Ps 96:11", the world, and they that dwell therein; men, the inhabitants of the world; that is, let them rejoice because this glorious King has taken to himself his great power, and reigns, Re 11:15.…
53 wordsSECTION 1065Psalms 98:8
Psalms 98:8 Ver. 8. Let the floods clap their hands,.... Or "rivers" {e}, dashing against their banks, as they pass along; a prosopopoeia, as the preceding and following, expressing great joy on account of the Messiah, the reigning King. Aben Ezra interprets this of men that are in rivers, as the sea; in the preceding…
95 wordsSECTION 1066Psalms 98:9
Psalms 98:9 Ver. 9. Before the Lord, for he cometh to judge the earth,.... See Gill on "Ps 96:13", with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity; both at his first and second coming, and during the intermediate time; see the note as before. The only difference is, that in Ps 96:13, it is sai…
108 wordsSECTION 1067Psalms 99:1
Psalms 99:1 INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 99 This psalm, with the foregoing from Ps 90:1 is ascribed to Moses by Jarchi and others; but cannot be his, since mention is made of Samuel in it, who lived many years after him. The Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions, more rightly attribute it to David…
524 wordsSECTION 1068Psalms 99:2
Psalms 99:2 Ver. 2. The Lord is great in Zion,.... Where the temple stood, and into which Christ came as the proprietor of it, and gave it a greater glory by his presence than the first temple had; here he preached his doctrines, wrought many of his miracles; here he poured forth the Spirit on his apostles; and from h…
228 wordsSECTION 1069Psalms 99:3
Psalms 99:3 Ver. 3. Let them praise thy great and terrible name,.... All people, especially the Lord's people; those that dwell in Zion, where his name is great, in high esteem, venerable, and valued; as his name Jesus, or Saviour, is amiable and lovely to his saints; and his name, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, is t…
118 wordsSECTION 1070Psalms 99:4
Psalms 99:4 Ver. 4. The King's strength also loveth judgment,.... Or he who is a strong and mighty King, as Christ is; which appears by saving his people, and preserving them to his kingdom and glory, and by destroying all his and their enemies; but, though he is so potent and victorious a Prince, yet no tyrannical on…
259 wordsSECTION 1071Psalms 99:5
Psalms 99:5 Ver. 5. Exalt ye the Lord our God,.... Christ, who is Lord of all, and Immanuel, God with us, God in our nature, our Lord and our God; exalt him in his person, as God over all, blessed for ever; in his offices of Prophet, Priest, and King, by hearkening to his word, by trusting in his blood, righteousness,…
320 wordsSECTION 1072Psalms 99:6
Psalms 99:6 Ver. 6. Moses and Aaron among his priests,.... The priests of the Lord, called and appointed by him, that ministered to him in that office, were the priests of Christ, types of him, and ceased when he came: these were the chief among them, or of them, as Kimchi observes: Moses officiated as a priest before…
341 wordsSECTION 1073Psalms 99:7
Psalms 99:7 Ver. 7. He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar,.... In the pillar of the clouds of glory, as the Targum; in which the Lord went before the children of Israel in the wilderness, to lead them, and protect them from heat in the day, Ex 13:21, that is, he spake in this to Moses and Aaron; for it ceased when t…
297 wordsSECTION 1074Psalms 99:8
Psalms 99:8 Ver. 8. Thou answeredst them, O Lord our God,.... This is repeated to show the certainty of it, and to encourage the people of God, in all ages, to pray unto him: thou wast a God that forgavest them; even Moses, Aaron, and Samuel; for, though they were great and good men, they did not live without sin, an…
334 wordsSECTION 1075Psalms 99:9
Psalms 99:9 Ver. 9. Exalt the Lord our God,.... Having given the above instances of Moses, Aaron, and Samuel, serving and worshipping the Lord, the psalmist repeats the exhortation in Ps 99:5, which he enforces by their example; See Gill on "Ps 99:5": and worship at his holy hill; the holy hill of Zion, the church; a…
142 wordsSECTION 1076Psalms 100:1
Psalms 100:1 INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 100 A Psalm of Praise. The Arabic version ascribes this psalm to David, and very likely it is one of his: the Targum calls it "a hymn for the sacrifice of thanksgiving;'' and so Jarchi. It is supposed to have been used when peace offerings for thanksgivings were offered up, Le 7:1…
282 wordsSECTION 1077Psalms 100:2
Psalms 100:2 Ver. 2. Serve the Lord with gladness,.... Not with a slavish fear, under a spirit of bondage, as the Jews under the legal dispensation; not in the oldness of the letter, but in the newness of the Spirit: with spiritual joy and freedom of soul, as under the spirit of adoption; readily, willingly, cheerfull…
134 wordsSECTION 1078Psalms 100:3
Psalms 100:3 Ver. 3. Know ye that the Lord he is God,.... Own and acknowledge him to be God, as well as man; and though a man, yet not a mere man, but the great God and our Saviour, the true God and eternal life; so a man, as that he is Jehovah's fellow; or our God, as the Syriac and Ethiopic versions; Immanuel, God w…
413 wordsSECTION 1079Psalms 100:4
Psalms 100:4 Ver. 4. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving,.... The same with the gates of Zion, loved by the Lord more than all the dwellings of Jacob; the gates of Jerusalem, within which the feet of the saints stand with pleasure; the gates of Wisdom, or Christ, where his followers watch and wait; the gates into h…
155 wordsSECTION 1080Psalms 100:5
Psalms 100:5 Ver. 5. For the Lord is good,.... Both in a providential way, and in a way of grace, and does good; he is the good Shepherd, that has laid down his life for the sheep; and the good Samaritan, that pours in the wine and oil of his love and grace, and his precious blood, to the healing of the wounds made by…
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