13 Thou ſhalt arite, and have mercy upon Zion * :
for the time to favour her, yea the ſet time x is come.
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alas, how ſoon were our hopes blaſted, not long after the begin- ning of our ſettlement, is Reh»boams time, and ſo ſucceſſively in the courle of cur affairs under the following King<, till at Jaſt thou didſt give-us up to ruine and deſolaticn, as at this day- And this he doth not alledge to accule Gcd, or excuſe himſelf or his people, bur only that he might move the Divine Majeſty ro ſkew them ſome pity conſidering the ſhortneſs of their days, and his own E-
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u Upon Jeruſalem, or thy Church and people. » The end Of | ternir ! : ve. 9% *E *F TE y, as he purſues the Argument in the following Verſes, png phy age png thou haſt fixed ; of which ſee Jer: 25. | » The days of my life, or cf my proſperous ſtate, as above
: . verſe It. tf dveriity i kind of dcath, >< £ # 14 For thy ſervants cake pleaſure in her ſtones, and Je 11- for advertty is a kind of qcath, and 5s ficquently
called. 19508 favour the duſt thereof y, 24 I ſaid, O my God; * take me not away o in the * Job Mi » Thy poop value the duſt and rubbiſh of the holy City more F: - Y 5 } Job UW |
midit of . = 20» than all the Palaces of the Earth, and paſſionately deſire thar it any day 5 P thy years ale throughouc all gene Hb.
may be rebuilt: Fations q 1550 the Heathen ſhall fear the name of the LORD | . * P9 29 wholly cut off and deſtroy thy people of Irael. p Be- — Pet the kings of the earth thy glory z _ they Om to a full age aad ſtature, Su to the plenary poſe o ENio f Tt 5 d 1 - f Fi lt = x Which was in ſome ſort fulfilled when the rebuilding of the 10 of ey POIs clpocially <2 that great ane NONE
tal promiſe of the Meſſias, i d by whom alone their happ' Temple and City of God was carried on and finithed through ſo P (0 141 17", ocean art Mia ne their happineſs
| hro! 1s to be compleated, and until whole coming thy Church is in its many and great dithculties and oppoſitions, to the admiration en- |nonage ; of which ſee Gal: 4. 1, 2, 3, 4. Poffibly the Pſalmiſt vy and terrour of their Enemies, as we read Nehem. 6. 16. Com-
Pſal. 126. 2. but muc! rude and tate 2 nd p ( ns _ learned Interpreters ſuppoſe ” be Daniel ) may have pare Pſal. 126. 2. bu uch more truely and Iinlly in building of [refpe& to that Prophecy, Dan:9.24,25. whi bab] bliſhe. the Spiritual Jeruſalem by Chriſt, unto whom the Gentiles were 0 rophecy, Dan:9g. 24,25. which probably was publiſh
cd before this time ; for this time was almoſt precilely the midſt gathered, and the Princes of the World paid their acknowledge- | of the days between the building of the A Temple by Sols- INents.
: : m0, and the building ofthe Spiritual Temple or the Church b 1s When the LORD ſhall build up Zion, he ſhal ap- | the Meſlias 3 there being Sins a thouiand Tn diſtance bevwen pear in his glory 4.
thole two periods, whereof ſeventy Frophetical weeks, or four 4 His glorious power and wiſdom and goodneſs ſhall be mani- huodred and ninety years were yet to come. And ſo he prays felted to all the World.
mu _ would _ _ o_ out in this Babyloniſh Captivity,
: . ut would gracioully reſtore them to their own Land,and preſerve
Kd, _ c ill _ the prayer of the deſtitute v, and them as a Churchand Nation there until the coming of the Meiſiar.
not.dELlpueC c tneELr Prayer. : : | q Though we ſucceſſively die and periſh, yer thou art the evere b i: e: Of his poor forſaken deſpiſed people in Babylon. &c i: e:
Will accept and anſwer.
laſting and unchangeable God, and therefore art and wilt ever be 18 This (bal be written 4for the generation to come e
able ro deliver thy people, and faithful in performing all thy pro- mules ; and theretore we beſeech thee to pity our trail and Jart- and* the people which ſhall be created f ſhall praiſethe LORDe
guiſhing ſtate, and give us a more ſettled and laſting felicity than | yet we have enjoyed 3 and therefore we truſt that thy people ſhall
a This wonderful deliverance ſhall not be loſt nor forgotten, but carefully recorded by thy people, e For the inftruttion and in-
continue and be eftabliſhed before, as he ſairh v. 28. becauſe as thou art the c— _ ſo thou haſt made an — We KM ' ; nant with them, Pſal. 105+ 10. Iſa. 55: 3. Fer: 32. 40. To bethei
couragement of all ſuccceding Generations. The ſingular number] 24 gg. ge. . = therefore a Kd ak vn forſake or rejelh put for the plural, as is ordinary» f Which may be underſtood, either, 1. Of the Jews which ſhould be reſtored, who were in a manner dead and buried in the grave, and meer dry bones, 1/2.26) i9. Exzek. 37. and therefore their reſtauration might well be called a Creation ; or as it is elſewhere, a Reſurre&ion. Or 2. Of the Gentiles who ſhould be converted. whoſe Converſion 1s frequent- ly,and might very juſtly be called a tecond Creation. Sce Iſa 27.11. and 431 1.7, I5, and65. 18, Eph. 2:10. 15.
19 For he hath looked down g trom the height of his ſan&tuary k: from Heaven did the LORD behold the
earth. | g To wit, upon us not like an idle ſpeQator, but with an eye of Pity and relief, as the next Verſe declares. h From his higher or upper Sanctuary, to wit, Heaven, as the next Clauſe explains it, which is called Gods high and holy place, IJa. 57. 15: ' *pf,9.1i, 20 * To hear the groaning of the priſoner z to looſe
f Heb'the F thoſe that are appointed to death z. thildren of j; To releaſe his poor Captives out of Babylon, and, which is aeaths more, from the Chains and Fetters of Sin and Satan, and from eternal deſtruQtion, 21 To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and his praiſein Jeruſalem &. k That they being delivered might publiſh and celebrate the name and praiſes of God in his Church. 22 When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms to praiſe the LORD 7U. I When the Gentiles ſhall gather themſelves to the Jews, and Jjoyn with them in the praiſe and worſhip of the true God, and of the Meſlias. This Verſe ſeems to be added to intimate, that al- though the Pſalmiſt in this Pſalm reſpe&s the deliverance of the Jews out of Babylon, yet he had a turther deſign ani a principal reſpe& unto that greater and more general deliverance of his Church and People by the Meſſias. | 23 Hem | weakned my ſtrength in the way m: he
ſhortned my days », 2 To wit, God, to whom he aſcribes theſe Calamitiess wv; 1o.
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25 * Ofold haſt choulaid the foundation ofthe earth, * Heb: and the Heavens are the worksof thy hands r. I,