Ps. xxix. 10, 11. The Lord sitteth upon the flood ; yea, the Lord sitteth King for ever. The Lord will give strength zinto his people : the Lord will bless his people ivith peace.
THIS psalm is supposed to have been written on the occasion of a thunder-storm. It represents the Deity as uttering his voice in those terrific sounds, whereby the very mountains are made to shake, yea and " skip, as it were, like a calf or a young unicorn." That there is a transition to the Messiah, and his offices, is clear : for he is expressly declared to be King in Zion. And this declaration stands in imme- diate connexion with the floods and tumults by which, in appearance, he was for a season over- whelmed : " Why do the Heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing ? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh : the Lord shall have them in derision. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. Yet have I set mij King upon my holy hill of Zion^" He is also called Jehovah : as it is written : " This is the name whereby he shall be called. The Lord our Righteous- ness"." And I rather think, that, in order the more strongly to mark his divine character, the name Jehovah is here so often repeated. It is repeated no less than eighteen times in these eleven verses : and it is the same person who is spoken of throughout the whole. The same person of whom the Psalmist says, in the first three verses, " Give unto the Lord, O ye mighty, give unto the Lord glory and strength : give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name ; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness : the voice of the Lord is upon the waters ; the God of glory thundereth ; the Lord is upon many waters."
a Ps. ii. 1 — G. 'J Jer. xxiii. 6.
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