Ver. ll.-Yea, all kings shall fall dowu over Pnlestine, e.s appeitl'8 by the remnine before him : all nations shall serve him of terraces. The fruit thereof shall shake (comp. Isa. xlix. 7, 23; lx. 8-14). This like Lebanon. Oanr>n Cook's seems te be the prophe<'y be.s not yet been fulfilled in the best oxposition: " The ripened corn on the letter; hut it me.y one de.y be exactly heights shall rusHe iu tho wind like the nccomplishcd. Or it me.y not he.ve been foli11gc on Lebanon." And they of the oity intended to be understood literally. General &hall flourish like graH of the earth. " They truths are often expressed by the sacred of the city" are the inhabitants of the w-riters universally. "New Jerusalem" (Rev. xxi, 2), the citizens Ver. 12.-For he shall deliver the needy of l\fossiah's kingdom. when he orieth; the poor also, and him that Ver. 17.-His Name shall endure for ever hath no helper (comp. ver. 4); rather, a,id (comp. Pas. xiv. 2, 6; oii, 12; Ise.. ix. 7). t~ poor who has no helper. Two classes of " The eternity of the Name is based upon perBons are spoken of, not three (comp. Job the eternity of the kingdom" (Heugsten- nix.12). berg). Bls Name &hall be oontinued as long Ver. 18.-B:e shall spare the poor and as the sun ( comp. ver. 5); or, his Name Bhall needy; or, ihe 1Deak and needy. .And shall be renewed-shall spring e.gnin to fresh life. eave the souls of the needy. He shall not Dr. Kay compares e.n expression of Renan's, merely deliver them from their cruel op- " Son culte se rajeunira," And men shall pressors in this life (ver. 4), but also give be blessed in him; literally, men Bhall health and life to their souls. blesB themselves in him ( comp. Gen, xxii. Ver. H.-He shall redeem their soul from 18; u:vi. 4). All nations shall oall him deceit e.nd violenoe. Messiah's especial blessed. With these words the psalm, pro- tenderness towards the poor and lowly is perly speaking, ends. 'fhe doxology (vers. a main feature in all descriptions of his 18, 19) and the note (ver. 20) were pro- kingdom (see lea. x.i. 4; xxix. 19; x.li. 17, bably nppended by the arranger of the et.c.), and was emphasized by our Lord when book. he came upon earth (Matt. xi. 5; Luke iv. Vera. 18, 19.-Bleseed be the Lord God, 18). And precious shall their blood be in the God of Israel (compare the other doxo- his sight. Worth, therefore, a mighty ransom logies, which begiu similarly (Pss. x.li. 13; (comp. Ps. cxvi. 15). lxnix. 52 ; cvi. 48). Who only doeth Ver. 15.-.And he ahall live, and to him wondrous things (comp. Ps. lxxxvi. 8, 10; BheJl be given of the gold of ShebL He and Job v. 9). And blessed be his glorious (i.e. Messiah) "shall live "-shall live on, Ne.me for ever(corup. Pss. xxix. 2; x.x:xiv. 3; and reign on, in his everlasting kingdom; lxvi 2; lxix. 30; cxiii. 2, eto.). And let and men shall bring to him of the gold of the whole earth be filled with his glory, Sheba (I Kings x. 10; Ezek. :a:vii 22), The whole earth can no otherwise be filled giving him of their best and rarest, in with the glory of God, thl\n by men every- grateful acknowledgment of his goodness where glorifying him, and bowing down in e.nd protection. Prayer also shall be made adoration before his Son, The promise he:<1 far him continually, His subjects shall been made that so it should one day be offer prayer for him continually, e.s Chris- (Numb. xiv. 21); and the psalmist antici- tians do when they pray, "Thy kingdom pates the folfilment of the promise. Amen, come" (Hengstenbt:rg). A.nd daily shall and Amen (comp. Pss, xii. 13 ; lnxi.x. 52 ; he be praised; rather, all day long shall they cvi. 48). praise him. Ver. 20.-The prayers of David the sou of Ver. 16.-ThEJe shall be an handful o! lesse are ended, This is e. note appended, corn in the eartli; rather, as in the Pmyer- either by the oollector of the first two Books book Version, an heap of c:orn ; or, of the Psalms, or by t:li.e oollector of the abundance of corn (Revised Version), Third Book, who thus marked the differ- .. A.bunde.nce of com " is put for general ence between the previous colleotion and his prosperity. Upon the top of the mountains. own, the former containing sixty p~e.lms In flourishing times of e.gricul ture, the very ascribed to David in their titles, and the tops of the moWltai..na were cultivated all latter one only (Pa. l.xxxvi.).
HOMILETICS, Ver. 11.-Messiah's reign. "Men shall be blessed in him." This great promise looks back to the glorious and amazing assurance thrice given to the Patriarch A.brab&m (and repeated to his son and grandson, Gen. xiL 3; xviii. 18; xxii. 18). St. Paul says the gospel, was thus " preached before " (Gal. iii. 8). In the third of these passages, and in the text, the Hebrew word is strictly" bless themselves" (margin, PS, LXXIJ, 1-20.) THE BOOK OF PSALMS. 67