2Sa 7:18-20, Psa 34:1-6, 107:1, 8, 15, 43, 116:1-7, Luk 2:19, 51 | TSK | STEP

A.M. 2942. B.C. 1062. (Title.) Abimelech. or, Achish.This is the second of the alphabetical Psalms (the first being Ps 25:); each verse beginning consecutively with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The verse, however, which begins with [\^w\^, vâv,] {wav,} and which should come in between the fifth and sixth, is totally wanting; but as the 22nd, which now begins with [\^p\^, pê,] {pay, podeh,} "redeemeth," is entirely out of the series, it is not improbable that it was originally written {oophodeh,} "and redeemeth" and occupied that situation, in which connection it reads admirably.

Ge 20:2; 26:1; 1Sa 21:13-15; Pr 29:25

See on Ps.

71:8,14,15; 145:1,2; Isa 24:15,16; Ac 5:41; 16:25; Eph 5:20

Col 3:17; 1Th 5:18; 2Th 1:3; 2:13

make.

44:8; 105:3; Isa 45:25; Jer 9:24; 1Co 1:31; 2Co 10:17

the humble.

22:22-24; 32:5,6; 119:74; 142:7; 1Ti 1:15,16

magnify.

35:27; 40:16; 69:30; Lu 1:46; Ac 19:17; Php 1:20

let us.

33:1,2; 66:8; 103:20-22; 148:1-14; 1Ch 29:20; 2Ch 29:30; Re 14:7

Re 19:5,6

sought.

18:6; 22:24; 31:22; 77:1,2; 116:1-6; Jon 2:2; Mt 7:7; Lu 11:9

2Co 12:8,9; Heb 5:7

from.

27:1,2; 46:2; 56:3; 1Sa 27:1; Isa 12:2; 2Co 7:5,6; 2Ti 1:7

They.

123:1,2; Isa 45:22; Heb 12:2

and were.

13:3; 18:28; 97:11; Es 8:16

lightened. or, flowed unto him. their.

83:16; 2Sa 19:5

This.

3:4; 10:17; 40:17; 66:16-20

saved.

17-19; Ge 48:16; 2Sa 22:1; Re 7:14-17

Psalms 107:1

1 The psalmist exhorts the redeemed, in praising God, to observe his manifold providence,

4 over travellers;

10 over captives;

17 over sick men;

23 over seamen;

33 and in divers varieties of life.

A.M. 3468. B.C. 536. (Title.)The author of this Psalm is unknown; but it was evidently written to commemorate the return of the Jews from the Babylonian captivity; and it may easily be perceived that it must have been sung in alternate parts, having a double burden, or two intercalary verses often recurring. Bp. Lowth considers it as written "after the method of the ancient pastorals, where, be the subject of their verse what it will, each swain endeavours to excel the other; and one may perceive their thoughts and expressions gradually to rise upon each other." "No doubt," he adds, "the composition of this Psalm is admirable throughout; and the descriptive part of it adds at least its share of beauty to the whole; but what is most to be admired is its conciseness, and withal the expressiveness of the diction, which strikes the imagination with illimitable elegance. The weary and bewildered traveller--the miserable captive in the dungeon--the sick and dying man--the seaman foundering in a storm--are described in so affecting a manner, that they far exceed any thing of the kind, though never so much laboured."

Give.

106:1; 118:1; 136:1-26; 1Ch 16:34,41; 2Ch 5:13; 7:3,6; 20:21

good.

119:68; Mt 19:17

for his mercy.

103:17; Lu 1:50

Psalms 107:8

Oh that men.

15,21,31; 81:13-16; De 5:29; 32:29; Isa 48:18

praise.

34:3; 92:1,2; 147:1; Isa 63:7

his wonderful.

40:5; 78:4; 111:4; Da 4:2,3; 6:27

Psalms 107:15

8,21,31; 116:17-19

Psalms 107:43

is wise.

28:5; 64:9; Isa 5:12; Jer 9:12; Da 10:12; Ho 14:9

they shall understand.

50:23; Jer 9:24; Eph 3:18,19

Psalms 116:1-7

1 The psalmist professes his love and duty to God for his deliverance.

12 He studies to be thankful.

A.M. 3468. B.C. 536. (Title.)From several instances of the Chaldee dialect being used in this Psalm, it appears to have been written after the Babylonian captivity.

love.

18:1-6; 119:132; Mr 12:33; Joh 21:17; 1Jo 4:19; 5:2,3

because.

18:6; 31:22,23; 34:3,4; 40:1; 66:19,20; 69:33; Ge 35:2; 1Sa 1:26

Joh 16:24

therefore.

55:16,17; 86:6,7; 88:1; 145:18,19; Job 27:10; Lu 18:1; Php 4:6

Col 4:2

as long as I live. Heb. in my days.

sorrows.

18:4-6; 88:6,7; Jon 2:2,3; Mr 14:33-36; Lu 22:44; Heb 5:7

gat hold upon me. Heb. found me. I found.