- I7 Let them be- confounded and troubled for ever : yea, let them be put to ſbame, and periſh y, ) But thoſe ofthem that will not humble themſelves before thee, ler them be utterly deſtroyed. 15 That mes may know z, that thou whoſe name a- lone #5 JEHOVAH, art the moſt high ||over all the earth. z Or, That theymay know, to wit, by coſtly experience, even by their own ruine, what they would not know by information for their own good. || The moſt high God, and the God not only of his People Iſrael, as the heathen fancied, and as their gods were confined to their particular and ſeveral territories, but the God and Governour of all the Nations and parrs of the Earth. PSAL LXXXIV. The ARGUMENT. F : \He Author of this Pſalm ſeems to have been David; Partly becaule it is aſcribed to no other; and partly becauſe it is mott agreeable to his Style and Condition, and the occaſion of it, his baniſhment or abſence from the place of God's Worſhip : Either, 7. In Saws time, which ſuits not with v. 7. for then the Tabernacle was not 1f Z/oz Or rather, 2. During Abſalow's Rebellion.
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The Prophet commending the Sanftuary, x. Longeth for Communion with it, 2, 3» Sheweth the bleſſed State and Condition of ſuch as dwell there« My 4——-7. Prayeth to be reſtored unto it, 8, 9g. Preferreth one aay therein befere a thouſand elſe-where, to. What the Lord u to thi that truſt in him, 11, 12, ;
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# Thy Tabernacle, called Tabernacles ; Either, 1. Becauſe it.con- ſiſted of ſeveral parts: Or rather, 2: To note its excellency ; as Behemoth or Beaſts 1s put for one eminent Beaſt, Job go. £5. and Wiſe dons for excellent Wiſdom, Prov. 1. 20.
courts c of the LORD:my heart and myfleſh crieth out d for the living God.
b Or. Is conſumed, with grief for want of them, -and with vehee ment deſire to enjoy them, and with the deferring and diſappoint ment'of his Hopes. See Prov. 13. 12. e To enter into the out- ward Court-with the People, and to ſee what is done by the Prieſts in the inner Court, and to joyn with them in their Religious Ex- erciſes. d With a doleful cry, of which this word is uſed alſo, Lam. 2. 19. which elſe-where and commonly ſignifies a joyful ſhout. Theſenſe is, my Soul and Body are pained ; or the paſli- on of my Heart maketh my Tongue cry out,
3 Yea, the ſparrow hath found an houſe e, and che ſwallow a neſt for herſelf,where ſhe may lay her young, even thine altar f, O LORD of hoſts, my King, and
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e te. An habitation, to wit, a neſt, as it here followeth. f Or nigh ( as this Hebrew Particle eth is elſe-where uſed, and as it is rendred by the Septuagint and the Chaldee, Judges 4. 11. ) thine Altar, Heb. Alters, that of Burnt-offerings, and the other of Incenſe. Ar, or near which theſe Birds might well and truly be ſaid to have their Neſts, becauſe they were either in ſome part of the Taber- nacle or Temple in which the Altars were; or in ſome buildings belonging, or near at leaſt to it. | 4 Bleſſed are they that dwell in thy houſe g : they will be ſtill praiſing thee h. Selah. £ That conſtantly or frequently reſort to and abidein thy houſe; Either the Prieſts and Levites, who kept continual watch there 3 Or other devout Jews who were there perpetually, as 41ma, Luke 2.37: h For they are continually employed in that bleſſed and glorious work of praiſing and ſerving thee in the place which thou haſt appointed for that end. | 5 Bleſſed zs the man whoſe ſtrength 3s in thee 7: in whoſe heart are the ways of them k, | ; Who rtruſteth in thee as his only ſtrength and refuge and por=
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$f for ofiz ; ef hich foe Matth, 13. 1te 2x C7. 7.2.) ability of Body and Mind {or thee, and for thy ſervice; or {orthat Journey which hero he teens ro infinuate,and in the following Words and Verics : he particularly defcribes. ior it muft be conſidered that all the Males of Iſrael were obliged to come to the Tabernacle or Tempie } thrice ina year, Exod. 34. 23, 24+ and that ſome of them lived at | a great diſtance, and confequently were to take a long and trouble»; {ome Journey, which alſo might at ſome times and places be ac- ! companied with hazards and other inconveniences; and therefore | ſuch as wanted either courage or bodily ſtrength might be difcous- } raged or hindred from undertaking it, and from the enjoyment of | God in his ſolemn and publick Worſhip. Which though in ſome ; caſes it might not be their fln, yer ſurely it was a great atfliftion | and infelicity ; and conſequently it was a bleſſed thing to be freed from thoſe Impediments, as the Plalmiſt here obſerves. k1-e- Of thoſe men ; for though Man be the ſingular number, it is under- ſtood colie&ively of all thar fort or company of Men. Bur theſe words of them, arc not in the Hebrew, and as ſome Learned M:n have obicrved, ſeem ro diſturb or darken the fenſe Others there- fore ſeem to render the words better an:! more agreeably tothe Hebrew Text, In whoſe heart are thy (which Pronoun 1s oft un- derſtood) ways, to wit, thoſe ways which lead to thy houſe ; Or, the ways, ſo called emphatically, or by way of eminency, the ways of (or, to) Zion, as they are called, Lament. I- 4) as is evident from the ſeventh Verſe of this Pſalm. So the meaning 1s, Bleſſed are they whoſe thoughts and affe&ions are much and ſtrong'y fixed upon the high ways, and theirJourneys to Z'/on ; who have both ſtrength of Body, as is ſaid in the former branche, and readineſs of Heart, as is here added, ro go to Zim; which are the two qua» lifications requiſite for thar Journzy: Bleſſed are they whoſe Hearts are ſet upon Zion, and their Journeys thither ; that are continu- ally, or fiom time to time ſtirring up, and beſpeaking themſelves and ochers as they did, Jer 31+ 6+ Ariſe ye, let us go up t0 Zion unto the Lord our God. As when'a Man's Heart is knit in true Friendſhip to one that lives at ſome di!tance from him, he is oft thinking with great defire and delight of the place where he dwelleth, and 1 0c, of of the way leading to at. x