Psalms 89:2

Mercy.

36:5; 103:17; Ne 1:5; 9:17,31; Lu 1:50; Eph 1:6,7

faithfulness

5,37; 119:89; 146:6; Nu 23:19; Mt 24:35; Heb 6:18

Psalms 89:36-37

seed.

4,29; 2Sa 7:16; Isa 53:10; 59:21; Joh 12:34

and.

72:5,17; Isa 9:7; Jer 33:20; Lu 1:33

It shall.That is, as long as the sun and moon shall endure, as long as time shall last, his kingdom shall continue among men. The moon is probably termed a faithful witness, because by her, particularly, time is measured. Her decrease and increase are especially observed by every nation; and by these time is generally estimated, especially among eastern nations:--So many moons is a man old--so many moons since such an event happened; and even their years are reckoned by lunations. Or, the rainbow may be intended; that faithful sign which God has established in the clouds, that the earth shall no more be destroyed by water.

ever.

72:7; 104:19; Ge 1:14-18; Jer 31:35,36

and as.

Ge 9:13-16; Isa 54:9,10

Psalms 119:89

LAMED

For ever.

152,160; 89:2; Mt 5:18; 24:34,35; 1Pe 1:25; 2Pe 3:13

Psalms 136:7-9

74:16,17; 104:19; Ge 1:14-19; De 4:19

The sun.

148:3; Jer 31:35; Mt 5:45

to rule. Heb. for the rulings.

The moon and stars.The sun is the monarch of day, the state of light; the moon of the night, the state of darkness. The rays of the sun falling on the atmosphere, are refracted and diffused over the whole of the hemisphere of the earth immediately under his orb; while those rays of that vast luminary which, because of the earth's smallness in comparison with the sun, are diffused on all sides beyond the earth, falling on the opaque disc of the moon, are reflected back on the lower hemisphere, or the part of the earth opposite the sun. But the reflected light being 50,000 times less in intensity than that of the sun, there is a sufficient distinction between day and night, though each is ruled and determined by one of these two great lights.

8:3; 89:36,37; Job 31:26

Matthew 5:45

ye.

9; Lu 6:35; Joh 13:35; Eph 5:1; 1Jo 3:9

for.

Job 25:3; Ps 145:9; Ac 14:17
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