7 God is greatly to be feared » in the aſſembly of the ſaints 0; and || to be had in reverence of all them that 10r,terri- are about him p. | Cf Si TOE kghovenl 1 With a fear of reverence : For dread and terrour have no place that are #- in thoſe blefſed Manſions and holy Spirits: o To the whole Society ku: him. of Angels, called Saints, as verſe 5. p The Angels which are al- SG Gr. ways in his preſence and encompaſs his Throne. | 8s O LORD God of hoſts,# who zs a ſtrong LORD like unto thee g? or to thy faithfulneſs round about thee r ? o #4 Who is equal to thee in Power, or, as it follows in faithful-
neis. r Heb. And thy faithfulneſs is round about thee, like a girdle, adorning and encompaſſing thee. Ir appeareth in all thy paths and
' ations, in thy words and works.
" 9 * Thou ruleſt the raging of the ſea 5: when the
'P.65:7- waves thereof ariſe, thou itilleſt them. | 's Giving commands and ſetting bounds to its waves when they are moſt impetuous and unruly. Er1g.26- To * "Thou haſt broken || Rahab # in pieces, as one Wrigyte that is ſlain #; thou haſt ſcattered thine enemies + with
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th frengeh. , * Egypt, as Pſalm $7. 4. u. Thou didſt wound them not ſlightly but unto death. Sec Exod. 14. 15. : (Genr.r. - IT * The heavens are thine, the earth alſo 3s thine :
Pal.24-1- es for the world, and the fulneſs thereof x, thou haſt
£5. 12. founded them y.
. x All the Creatures wherewith it is repleniſhed, as Pſalm 24. 1. and 50. 12, y They are all thy Creatures, and therefore wholly ſubje& to thy power and pleaſure : And therefore allthe Monarchs and Kingdoms of the Earth cannot hinder thee from making good : thy Promiſe to the Houſe and Kingdom of David. | fllbi-le 12 The north and Þ the ſouth & thou haſt created
"4-4, them : Tabor and Hermon «ſhall rejoyce b in thy namec. z The northern and ſouthern parts ofthe World, yea even the remoteſt ends thereof, though not yer known to us, were made and are ruled by thee. Or poſſibly he may underſtand the nor-
, thern and ſouthern Empires and People of the Wor!d, who have from time to time annoyed and diſturbed the Kingdom of David and of 1ſracl, of which this Pſalm principally treats, ſuch as Syria, Chaldes, and 4ſjria; Which in Scripture phraſe are called zhe North, in reference to that Kingdom ; And Egypt, and Ethiopia, and Arabia, which are ſouthward fromit. Theſe, ſaith he, are all thy Creatures, and none of them can withſtand thee, if thou wilt undertake to deliver thy People. But this I only propoſe with ſubmiſſion. a Two eminent Mountains in the Land of Canaan, Tabor in the Weſt, and within Jordan, Hermon on the Eaſt without Jordan. By which he may underſtand cither firſt ſtern and Eaſtern parts of the World: And fo all the foyr parts of the World are contained in this Verſe. ut this may teem an uncouth and incongruous deſcription of the Ea becauſe the North and the South here ment10 parts of the Land of Canaan, but of the World with reſpe to it; And therefore the Eaſt and Weſt ſhould in reaſon have been ſo too; And partly, becauſe theſe places were not ſo ſituated in Canaan, for Tabor was not in the Weſt part of Canaan, but rather inthe mid- dle ſpace between the Sa and Jordan: And Hermon was not fo much on the Eaſt as on the North, being indeed the Northern bor- der of the Land without Jordan. Or ſecondly, The ſeveral parts of the Land of Canaan, both within Jordan, where Mount Tabor is ; and withour it, where H.rmon lyess And the Mountains may be named rather than the Valleys, becauſe when their fertility is ex- preſſed, the fertility of the Valleys is more ſtrongly ſuppoſed. 6 (i, e.) Shall be fruitful and proſperous, and ſo give their Inha- birants cauſe to rejoyce. Joy and ſinging areoff aſcribed ro Moun- tains and Fields, &c. in a poecical Strain. « In or by thy favour and the Fruits thereof. b ;
FH. 13 Thou haſt + a mighty arm : ſtrong is thy hand ,
*nvic4 and high is ethy right hand.
"it, d Either thy left hand, becauſe thy right had ſeems to be op- poſed ro it, or thy right hand, as itis limited and exp/ained 1n the next clauſe. e Or, is or fhall be exalted, or lifted up. That ſtrength of thy hand hath been, or ſhall be, put forth for thy peo- ple as occaſion requireth. | _—_—
14 Juſtice and judgment f are the || habication g of
(0, e224. thy throne : * mercy and truth ſhall go before thy face 5.
P 3 4
"nent, or F (i. e.) Juſt judgment or juſtice in judging, as Fer. 9. 24+ and > A common figure called Hendiadis. g Or, the baſis or foun-
, . 22-3, es. dation, as this word is uſed, Ezra 2, 63. and 3, 3. Pſalm 97.2. and
L MS 7 | , Pfal. LXXNIB 104. 5. the GJound-work of all his proceedings ahd the ſtability of | his Throne Jnd Government. For God could not be the Judge | and Ruler offthe Wor'd if he did not right, Gen. 18: 25. Com- f pare Prev, 14-12. , The ſenſe and ſcope ot this Verſe may be this, { Though thy preſent diſpenſations in breaking thy Covenant with David, and [in ſuffering his Poſterity and thine own People to be devoured by ſuch as are much more wicked than theyy be a great deep and fekret, yet I reſt ſatisfyed that they are Juſt. - In like manner the Prophet fortifies himfe'f under the .like thoughts, Fereme 12. 1. \s thy harbengers and Companions whereſvever thou gocſt. Thou art acither unmerciful nor unfaithful in any of thy dealings. x fog eg
I5 Bleſſed is the people 5 that know the * joyful ſound &: they ſhall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance /. ok | NS A
z: The Pfalmiſt intending to deſcribe the doleful eftate of the Royal Family and Kingdom of [/rael, aggravates it by the conſi- deration of their former felicity. & (i. e.) Who enjoy the pre« ſence of God and his Ordinances, and the tokens ofhis Grace and Mercy to them, to which they were called and invited by theſound of Trumpets, which upon that only reaſon was very pleaſant and grateful to the Iſraelites, See Namb. 1o. 9, 10. So the. ſign 1s put for the thing ſignified, as is manifeſt both from the followingclauſe of the Verſe, and becauſe otherwiſe the hearing of the outward ſound of Trumpets could never make them b'efſed, 1 They live under the comfortable Influences of thy Grace and Favour ; wheres of at preſent we are bereaved.
16 In thy name » (hall they rejoyce all the day ; and in thy righteouſneſs » ſhall they be exalted. ”