Gen 24:27, 32:9, Exo 15:13, Psa 77:7-12, 103:17, 106:1, 107:1, 136:11-26 | TSK | STEP

This is, etc.Or, as Dr. Waterland renders, "This my affliction is a change of the right hand of the Most High," i.e., it proceeds from a change of God's conduct towards me. De Dieu renders, {Precari, hoc meum est; mutare dextram Altissimi:} "To pray, this is my business: to change the right hand of the Most High." I can do nothing else than pray: God is the Ruler of events. Mr. N. M. Berlin translates, {Dolere meum hoc est: mutare est dextræ Altissimi:} "To grieve is my portion: to change (my condition) belongs to the right hand of the Most High."

31:22; 73:22; 116:11; Job 42:3; La 3:18-23; Mr 9:24

the years.

5; Ex 15:6; Nu 23:21,22; De 4:34; Hab 3:2-13

10; 28:5; 78:11; 111:4; 1Ch 16:12; Isa 5:12

meditate.

104:34; 143:5

talk.

71:24; 105:2; 145:4,11; De 6:7; Lu 24:14-32

Psalms 103:17

the mercy.

89:1,2; 100:5; 118:1; 136:1-26; Jer 31:3; Ro 8:28-30; Eph 1:4-8

Eph 2:4-7; 2Th 2:13,14; 2Ti 1:9

his righteousness.

22:31; Isa 46:13; 51:6; Da 9:24; Mic 6:5; Ro 1:17; 3:21-25; 2Pe 1:1

unto children's.

90:16; Ex 20:6; De 10:15; Isa 41:8; Jer 33:24-26; Ac 13:32-34

Ro 15:8

Psalms 106:1

1 The psalmist exhorts to praise God.

4 He prays for pardon of sin, as God pardoned the fathers.

7 The story of the people's rebellion, and God's mercy.

47 He concludes with prayer and praise.

(Title.)As part of the preceding Psalm is found in 1 Ch ch. 16, so the first and two last verses of this are found in the same place; and it is highly probable this was composed upon the same occasion as the former, to which it seems to be a continuation; for as that celebrates the mercies of God to Israel, so this confesses and deplores the rebellions of Israel against Jehovah.

Praise ye the Lord. Heb. Hallelujah.

105:45

O give.

100:4,5; 107:1; 118:1; 136:1; 1Ch 16:34; Ezr 3:11; Jer 33:11

1Th 5:18

for he.

103:17; 119:68; Mt 19:17; Ro 5:20,21

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