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4081 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 568.2 (Matthew Henry)
… , Psalms 89:2-89:4. Here we have, (1.) The psalmist’s faith and hope: “Things now look black, and threaten the utter extirpation of the house of David; but I have said, and …
4082 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 568.4 (Matthew Henry)
… ! Psalms 89:5; that is, “the glorious inhabitants of the upper world continually celebrate thy praises.” Bless the Lord, you his angels, Psalms 103:20. The works of …
4083 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 568.5 (Matthew Henry)
… , Psalms 89:6. If there be any beings that can pretend to vie with God, surely they must be found among the angels; but they are all infinitely short of him: Who in …
4084 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 568.6 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Psalms 89:11, 89:12 ): “Men are honoured for their large possessions; but the heavens are thine, O Lord! the earth also is thine; therefore we praise thee, therefore …
4085 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 568.8 (Matthew Henry)
… , Psalms 89:15. This may allude, 1. To the shout of a victorious army, the shout of a king, Numbers 23:21. Israel have the tokens of God’s presence with them in their …
4086 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 568.11 (Matthew Henry)
… , Psalms 89:16, 89:17. 1. “In thy righteousness shall they be exalted, and not in any righteousness of their own.” We are exalted out of danger, and into honour, purely …
4087 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 568.12 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Psalms 89:18 ): “ For our shield is of the Lord ” (so the margin) “and our king is from the Holy One of Israel. If God be our ruler, he will be our defender; and who is he than …
4088 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 568.13 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Psalms 89:3, 89:4 ); but in these verses it is enlarged upon, and pleaded with God, for favour to the royal family, now almost sunk and ruined; yet certainly it looks …
4089 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 568.14 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Psalms 89:19 ): Thou didst speak in vision to thy Holy One. God’s promise to David, which is especially referred to here, was spoken in vision to Nathan the prophet …
4090 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 568.15 (Matthew Henry)
… , Psalms 89:19, 89:20. David was a king of God’s own choosing, so is Christ, and therefore both are called God’s kings, Psalms 2:6. David was mighty, a man of courage and …
4091 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 568.17 (Matthew Henry)
… , Psalms 89:26, 89:27. This is a comment upon these words in Nathan’s message concerning Solomon (for he also was a type of Christ as well as David), I will be his Father …
4092 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 568.18 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Psalms 89:29, 89:36 ): His seed shall endure for ever, and with it his throne. Now this will be differently understood according as we apply it to Christ or David …
4093 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 568.19 (Matthew Henry)
… , Psalms 89:38. But let this encourage them, that, though they were corrected, they should not be abandoned or disinherited. This refers to that part of Nathan’s …
4094 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 568.21 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Psalms 89:30 ) by omissions, and break his statutes ( Psalms 89:31 ) by commissions. There are spots which are the spots of God’s children, Deuteronomy 32:5. Many corruptions …
4095 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 568.22 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Psalms 89:33 ), I will not lie unto David, Psalms 89:35. We are unworthy, but he is worthy. 2. For the covenant’s sake: My faithfulness shall not fail, my covenant will …
4096 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 568.24 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Psalms 89:38 ), had entered into covenant with the family, but now, for aught he could perceive, he had made void the covenant, not broken some of the articles of …
4097 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 568.27 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Psalms 89:46 ): How long, O Lord! wilt thou hide thyself? For ever ? That which grieved them most was that God himself, as one displeased, did not appear to them by his …
4098 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 568.28 (Matthew Henry)
… , Psalms 89:45 .
4099 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 568.29 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Psalms 89:47 ): Remember how short my time is, how transitory I am (say some), therefore unable to bear the power of thy wrath, and therefore a proper object of thy …
4100 Matthew Henry’s Complete Bible Commentary, p. 568.30 (Matthew Henry)
… ( Psalms 89:48 ): “ What man ” (what strong man, so the word is) “ is he that liveth and shall not see death ? The king himself, of the house of David, is not exempted from the sentence …