Pulpit Commentary - Salmos

the United
D.D.,
from
Babylon
(vers,
1
for
thought that
wander
and
So
or it may point
Lord for
its
repetition
Fs,
join
in
the
shadow
of
gression, and
are
the
constantly spoken of
Tossed
stagger like
witdom
it
twallmced.
oyer nature, and can
ciously
have
provoked
gain-
sayers,
unable
is our
in the
institution, in
or by land e.g. the journeys of
Paul and all missionaries
be
folly,
in our own iniquity, in our wilful departure from God; and in
the
consequent
(see
vers.
11,
12,
17).
III.
The one Rbfuge of the hbabt. Men that forget God at
eveiy
other
time
nf
soul
it,
the
instrumentalities,
But
by
tyrannous habit
and rest come back
pilgrim's
path.
V.
The
Lord
should
the special
temporal mercies
planted
expect that he
the
Babylon was
not the
barren,
waterless,
And,
doubt
cibout
it.
here affirmed as ever taking; place in answer to
prayer, there is in the majority of such
cases
(see Perowne, in loc.)
that no doubt the most do perish, but, then, all deserved
to
great mercy
?
that
deliverance. He teaches
patterns and
we have such
for
deliverance
from
them.
occupation,
experience,
are
portrayed
in
the
rescued.
And
thus
it
is
that
the text,
and it
plainly teaches
that for
eagerly waiting for that
who
that men
which
would
cover
the answer. 1.
effect
Christ our Lord.
first
8.0.
Yen.
4
and
recounts
the
but
lost
at
sea.
Ohurch
this
psalm
records, but
way the history
not
yet
home
from God,
him down
; he lies
resemblance
between
this
and
death.
are
of sin.
until
prayed
for
others
may
praise,
and
;
aid. Beceive him, therefore.
it ? 1.
unto the Lord.
these
things.
2.
;
dungeon
to
which
the rule.
further say
doubt they
do make
observing
thing
which
our will,
all kinds,
;
not
see
this
at
once,
suming fire of
the
new
experience
he
reads
called the
from
in the period
of
the
of
relations with his
4 to ver.
1.
outstretched aim. Recently they
captives.
were
led
into
Bin
by
But
even
when
suflfering
was
abroad, and engaged in
be
typical
and
praise
the
Lord.—
trouble
needs, and did find
answered.
It
teaches
every
natural
the
supply
material
natural
impulses
are
continually
acting
the
that natural
will as
several
of
response made
refrain
of
every
sin
is
lips,
In
which has its
to the
to
way
of
explanation.
The
priest perfectly understood what he meant. Some act of Divine mercy
was filling
expression. Philip
is not
man wants
; it is
a safe harbour,
coast
which
else
would
He only
by
almost
the psalm was
of
the
psalm
would
have
been
closely
imitated.
The
peculiarity
they
might
take
relation
suggest—
drought, in their relation
building, planting,
few men
pass through
of those
away by surface
It
is
not
ea.sy
to
opinion,
the
III. The lovino-eindness of
by
coming
when
the
ends
of
mercy—and healeth
subsidence.
 Then
are
faith
; and
not
science,
dis-
cnssing
the
unchangeable
laws
changed
again
union
in
the
transfer.
Yer.
1.
praise,
even
difficult
myself will awake
among
the
understood David's
God, go
Identical with Fs.
the Revised Yersion,
for
vain
is
the
liantly,
composed
were
written
after
a
reverse,
but also
be done
the
psalmist
own.
of
his
that ask
vain
our
confident
13).
David,
subdue
his
he
realized
the
a
strong
and
over our
spiritual adversaries,
at last
be full of praise.
Thus it
rotting in
the field
; not only
when the
church is
crowded, and
to
chronicle.
being
itself
a
compilation.
It
ia
;
S. 0,
Christ;
guard against
with the
best
member that I have (Prayer-book Version). A man's  glory is his
soul
— tha
spiritual
being.
him and to
he
Man can lead the choir of
creation
The
man's
glory.
THE SOUL.
shadows
over
all
the
Because it
shows him
that _W8
are in
way. What, then, is
a
us
can
gratefully
Let
us
psalmist.
It
leads
TO God,
Praising God
speak of ourselves as
of
himself;
but
never
their
requests
those
2. It
reason
to
piaise.
pray long
thing
to
do
that
the
verses
are
19
the
things
that
of fulfil-
of
the
the fulfilment of his
put
even
to
speak
BUFEBIOBITT
or
our
of
our
circumstances
Edom,
Philistia,
that
he
Ver.
11.
Ood
with
us
assures
confidenee
returned exile, but quite unsuitable to David.
The
original of this psalm
necessary to assume
his national wars, and that, in
a
 
national
history.
unfaithful
to
the
trust
that
defence
knowing
dis-
honoured,
people furnishes
abundant illustrations
the
 
the
writtr,
have
returned
themas,
and
he
will
he
2
Baries.
The
tenderness
myself unto
prayer; literally,
under
•entence.
And
The
Divine
aiiTov,
LXX.
Judas (Acts
i. 20).
quences
the
sins
is not one
crops, and
leave him
If
he
have
oliildren
the broken
was
certainly
Saul's
object
woman
whose
husband
needy
(comp.
; or,
 I
am
carried
away
deliverance, and
covered
with
?
1. Bavid identifies
breathes in
:
without injury
said,
Thou
shalt
enemies,
etc.
(Matt.
v.
43).
righteousness,
by
in
be humbled.
and
mercilessly
afflict
the
poor
(Ps.
xxxiii.
16).
2.
The
17
shown
them
in
charity
in
it is
Strong
for
strength.
joyful
assurance
that
all
will
be
like David
greater
not.
UL
Theib
authobship
favour of
the view
Hebrew there are no
when
the
only by
Our translators continually
to
mark
Pss.
ii.
6
; xiv.
4
(XX.
and
xxi.
(liturgical
psalms);
xxii.
22;'
xxxix.
4;
transla-
ticoi
of
as well
charge which
are
with
lock,
and
the
whole
of
 it
was
needful
should
be
fulfilled
assigned
to
him
portions
which
undoubtedly
belonged
rabbis,
of
Mendelssohn,
above
moved by
are
fiood,
for
such
 
are spiritually
poor, for
of
Laodicea,
we speak
own. Their
;
his
sacrifice
and
his
Spirit—
[pb.
oix.
wisest and
most hopeful
thing, when
feeling, and the
public prejudice excited,
not attempt
may freely speak
right minds.
him
and let him decide.
take away
to
prescribe
what
God
onght
than that
as
righteously
aflecting,
is not so:
feature in
of thie«
Cain's posterity
and temporal disabilities.
—
on the
gallows which
Divine
will,
when
he
while
mischief
that compassed
he
made
for
other.
on
different
of
his
enemy,
and
had
thought
and
felt.
Here
ourselves
if we
God,
come
to
silence
have
said
it
all;
and
kinder.
the
Lord
composition
xxii.
is
my
liege
Lord,
although
enemies.
Ac-
rally
of
the
word,
for
a
lifetime,
but
intercession
for
Herod Agrippa,
over
the
nations
of
the
a
better
rendering
 
earth
must
understand
faint nor be
ibe
I. HoLDmo
THE HOST
the world that
in their origin and in their character? The name of
Christ, the truth ».ud
Christ,
self-surrender.
No
who
are
prepared
to
the beautiful garment
splendid pageantry
but united in aim and spirit.
V.
He
is
more
end
until
the
all
respects
a
King
infinitely
to
argues from
Christ being
for Melchizedek was like Christ, and greater
than
Aaron
his priesthood.
3. In
effects
of
self-dedication; this
glory of the
is difficult
cub Lobd's
 
the lifting up
though
rest,
nothing
could
life Qoi provides for us. He humbled himself to need
and share
then, for
now. For brooks
be, as was
were as ours.
century.
War
associations
prevailed
then
and
difSculties,
the success
of Messiah
him,
by
his
energy
and
enter-
Erise.
only to
this
explanation,
Zion.
L
There
power to
the Judges.
When the
so not
efSciently showing
of what is yet
of
power
that
presented
case
with
recognition,
withered
hand.
Jesui
man
Jesus saw
yield ourselves
us power
the
application
;
of the
authority
to
rule
; his
relation
to
the
whole
with
suggests two
work,
scarcely
allow
the
right
hand
so
tried
to
do
it,
but
as to
occasions, such
that
fear
him.
The
manna
may
he
may
This
passes
equity
of
ever-
lasting
and
unchangeable
beginning
of
wisdom
is
not
BOOK
application
us, all along
in
the
the
speakb,
power
(see
ver.
6).
In
depths of Divine
wisdom are herel
Christian
compassion,
enwrap
our
 sought
out
(ver.
2).
ourselves
when
we
search
those
It
has
often
been
done.
The
psalm
of the
same mind
man by
our
own
souls
work
of
God
will
argument
to
his work.
mercy in
gracious
and
not bring like
in
our
to
his
to
is merely
in her, so
of
the
earth.
Without
these,
wherefore
vouchsafes these
believing
people
of
God
believing
people
of
God
gets terribly
any good.
we must
 
that
God's
praise
can
man, he feels the
as characteristic
of the
to say that
marital relation.
It may
man is for God,
and
so
make
incentive to
example, those
cold and slow starvation,
by the
meaning;
—
striking
to
of consolation and
strength to the
were
would
be
sad
and
hopeless
indeed
from
out of reach,
we can imagine,
or imaginative
is shown
wrought
in
all
the
work
the pbaotical
sense
OF THEOBETIOAL
the
to
know
all
the
true
knowledge.
II.
PiETT
18
what
he
God
—the
power
of
op
the
Divine
thotjoht
and
nature.
1.
They
the
psalm
is
the
righteous,
9;
with
the
dissatisfaction are
spirit
and
gladness
of
heart.
II.
The
efficient
tkainino
of
Not
the
home
of
most
likely
to
rise
to
power
are
III.
WoKK
THAT
of
and is
He
has
a dubious
exemption (see
God
will
give
him
abumiantly
trouble (see
light
of
just to others (guidmg
in
their
grateful
remem-
brance.
The
—
is dead
when
love
God,
that
in
the
saddest
sorrows
there
 
his
of
God's
faith,
myriads,
sacred
and
perpetuaL
6.
Se
less
doubting
because
of
any
lurking
The state
faith
of
very
often
fails
absence
in
the
case
far from being
;
is
still
a
and
trouble,
child
of
God
earth
set their
to them
they
are
foreboding
fears
mind
to
him.
of
his
mother's
love.
His
feet
are
on
the
Lord's
leading
persuaded
whom
the habit
conversion,
of
which
in
Christ
; a
deeper
fulness
of
meaning
children.
than
on
behalf
of
generations.
I.
people's
children
fail,
but
 
him
when
trouble
case. The
shall be
himself alone
of
are.
him away.
my
Portion
for
ever.
when others cannot. Many
light in the darkness for
him.
his life-troubles, that
and worketh
for us
of meaning
it, we call
helongs
to
the
thought
of
God,
or
The
word
and underneath
are the
applied
to
Everlasting
associations
of
the
figure.
One.
that
a
thing
then,
to
bring
;
tidings
of
its
of
eviL
They
who
have
nothing
to
in
man is
he
need
certainly
e
IL
GiviKa
conjoined
with
self-denying
BOLD OF
THE woBLD.
Compare the
like-hindedness
WITH
OoD.
ALL
FKAB.
(Yen.
7,
8.)
Delivered
from
the
terrors
that
beset
bnt is
be
one
The
1
with respect
constant
care
and
are, consciously or
of the dnnghill
still followed,
(For the
sentiment, see
the
lifting
up
thoie
that
of
hope
and
joy.
uplifting
power.
all
which
his
heart
has
conceived,
begins and
The
soul
the salvation spoken of was
primarily
a
national
one
visited
of
God.
It
—
and
joyful,
from the misery and shame of the days of the
destrnction
of
Jerusalem,
when
they
were carried into captivity, to the brighter times of the
return
munity which
great prosperity, as
Gk>d
The gratitude
Spirit's conviction of
vileness
of
heart
for of judg-
before
us
as
telling
of
the
soul
unsaved.
II.
images
employed.
And
now, and
universe,
worlds
upon
worlds,
wonderful;
with
(he
annual
Jewish
wisdom
nature-psalms. When man is
has mads.
Inani-
mate
things
praise by answering the ends for which they are made, and
meeting the
recognizing qualities and
do not
only see
goodness, they
the
whole people,
of every
All God's
people who
Lord our
God? The
earth. No
fitting ones
complete impres-
more
fitting
no more worthily
permitted to limit
heavenf
of
though this should
the
earth.
The
apostle
and creeping
represent
the
immaterial,
that
fur figures of God
scale.
to
represent
the
eternal
do.
This
we
say
attri-
butes.
Once
let
a
hi
the things themselves.
good,
the
parental
relation
consider,
not
the
events.
the
song
of
in
extreme
wisdom in such dealings in general as to remove all
thought
of the best
important
attain.
Since
is mainly due
qualities, which are
cern
for
the
are in
Displays
a
He
princes.
from
Babylon,
digies
had
marked
 going
forth
While
all
the
as
consti-
The
long
journey
it
brings
which
ho
pure,
obedient,
believing
heart
and
fruitful
fields,
than
returned
to
him,
and
like
is
the pattern and
so free from
care, life so
length its true character
of
Qod.
The
course
which
seemed
a blessing.
the
They
laught
all
material
whether
the
realistic
made
to
understand
that
touch.
of the divinely
had a definite
his purposes,
—and man
responsive
to
kin
with
him
that,
unhindered,
bis
thought
itself to the unusual, to the miraculous, when these are
necessary
to
God's
purposes.
II. Man SHOULD bespond
fountain
of
waters
(Jebel in
part
of
this
protuberance
semicircular, or rather
water, clear as crystal,
testimony
of
the
vege-
tables,
 
meet emer-
U8\ial
human life,
smiting
suggest that God put the water into the rock specially
and
habitat. Ihe
the
pools into which t e wate s drain, are always in the rocks.
Miners
have
to
be
careful
fissure,
from
get
by
smiting
the
rock was also quite natural. It is fancy that makes Moses
only give the
before
the fissure opened. So far the provision was natural, and
the
supernatural was blended
of
life,
is
not
that
the
distinction
between
When
their
own
their sphere
and
his
 
(Ver.
2.)
1.
We
(ear
and
quake.
sake.
In
what-
loeTer
he
hath
To
only
sure
people
(ver.
9)
to
them.
in him.
He is
their Help
always been mind-
expression
of
ni
(comp.
bless
blessing bestowed on
which made heaven and earth ; i.e.
of the
to
with minutest
 
earth,
and
have
will
praise
Lord
(comp.
to
is his.
as the
that apparent
impossibilities give
on his form (ver.
his own
the
object
of
; the
idol in the moral
character
and
and
ing
in
him.
God begin,
true
welfare,
has
rejoiced
in
our
sorrows.
2.
His
action
on
our
behalf.
with the treasures that
draw
down
the highest
is
there
III.
long as
that last? At
Coming
grave
HOMILIES BY
VARIOUS AUTHORS.
of
the
mock-
ing
question
contagion
of
the
people.
(Vers.
12
and
of
the
concluding
;
we are
of
Israel
turned
round
I
Their besetting sin before the Exile had been idolatry and
departure
year's sermon. There
been unable
to say,
their
own
mindfulness
if
he
has
they
; the other, all J;hat
Hence
we
he has
should
not
knows.
3.
And
and faith, and that move
in obedience
confidently exjiect
his blessing.
accomplished.
The
the
perhaps
unwisely,
had
of
the
is better to see that the scorn was but an
unworthy
expression
great zeal
the
psalm
as
experience
that
when
God
is
place
but
the
morals it
is true
that
the
first
sign
of
regeneration
ness
exclamation,
In two
his
benediction
on
our
loyalty.
be
said
Qt)d really cared for
We
start
out
with
a
we
have,
Incompleteness is his permission.
discipline. If God
is in them, and their state pleases him, then our incomplete
things are
of
the
psalms
of
the
restoration.
With
this
passages
as
Isa.
zliv.
9
to him
with
his
hands
what
he
man attempts to
Je«<
man's
hest
;
which
works
in
a
twofold
way.
As
the
to man,
when they make
national
never
hake
the
O0D8
LIKE
THEMSELVES
fact
of
it s
the
image
of
himself
its
Phoenicians
he
makes
those immaterial,
mental, figures
no
more
of India, and this is the serious feature of the
case.
Let
man
make
his
the
—
This
now.
And
It is
work
Trust
Biiould
make
a
treasure
to
of
the
temple
that have
again.
Where he has once bestowed his favour, he continues it,
his blessing delights
pour
them
forth
thick
and
to bless, it
is
his
^lory to bless, it is his delight to bless ; he has promised to bless, and therefore
be sure
should
be
this
—The
it binds itself
moulds.
in
mind
a
ship,
which
tlirow
their
rays
on
a
way
which
in
idea
fact of
altogether
morbid
condition
of
body
or
of
to
imagine
that
religion
requires
of
us
a
says,
order and
fitness, in
amid
terres-
trial
be paid,
IIL The
dealings
with
us
^18.
The honour due to Ood. A call to the God of Israel, the
living
God,
they are.
praise and worship. (Vers.
2. Because he
for
but
also
of
bis
resolution
to
{Jehovah) hath
and
my
snpplloations ;
danger lest his foot
of earth
of the
and death
day.
his
work
not
know
how
provision
is
to
be
it is
the departure
laying
down
of
the light
with
us :
when
bgfdge.
Name
of his pity, and
interested in the
of
comfort and
relief which
not under-
Healer
was brought low,
?
our
loving
and
faithful
Lord
(ver.
1).
4.
was used
deep
distress,
that
the
psalm
was
Testament
as
to
darkness
2.
of
these
still.
When
the
soul
feels
itself
to
be
it
gazes
wistfully
a
few
have
it is well
wrought
let every
Christiaa pray.
At other
times it
Then
it
is
such.
free
from
that
the
backslider
knows.
3.
If
Hence it is called
will, bbthrn unto its
first
of
turned
to
him
—in
penitence
But it ia
he permits
word  precious
the
last
step
of
the
gone,
tlien
with
power
of
Christ
is
glorified.
For
During
life
we
discuss
all
of hell, often all but lost. But death is God's
angel gathering them
wherefore
of such
words.
IV.
The
one limitation of this statement. 1. It is not at to time. We
may
die
at
any
that their deaths are
L
Bt
the
He asserts
And
meaning,
therefore,
is,
Who
his servants are eager to
have all those
love, and all whom they can influence, in his service.
It
brings
The
It
;
imperilled his life.
one
who
on his
a
suppli-
in his
cannot
associate
the god,—
it is
apply it to
of
we
are
with
them
further. Then
he would
comfort
in
The
mind
can
only
work
condition
as
the
often hard
danger,
however,
of
making
two
mistakes
in
connection
with
should be
bodily
organization,
mental
disposition,
according
to
IL
The
self, as
hope,
and
at
the
same
To use a business
God
b,
and
subtlety
most
life, and
with
—self-confidence
fills
what,
of
?
and found his
personal relations with
destroyed
individuality.
It
 
M-iny, looking over the conflicts of their
early
They
can
his
life.
The
by the claims
wilful son Absalom. Cannot bear to
see
a
it
thus.
III.
Who
can
look
over
life
Every-
thing
susceptibility.
is,
then,
a
threefold
memory-bond
servants,
in
all
times,
untrustworthy.
But
the
one
instance
indeed, is
and criticizing
not
always
clearly
recognized
that
suggestions
made
to
such
a
hasty
thought
of will
and
the
pathetic
refrain
 
gifts.
just let
them spend
This may help us to understand the psalmist's feeling concerning
Gk>d.
Introduced after the
1.),
mine, and
fulness thereof. And because
or
control.
How
can
we
give
bless
thanks
forms.
yours
web of life
is woven. Until
the dyings
makes
them
to
be
but
of
bereavement
we
 
call or
is
of
the
himself
the
the mysterious
conflicts of
best
during which
theirs, their
death would
and fellowship.
eternal
fellowship.
II,
the wondeifiil
ways in
thing to
from the
each
it
for
always
outer robe
mysteries to keep
God in
did
not
merely
bring
thankfulness
for
temporal
prosperity.
The
story
clearly
indicates
Divine acceptance of
sake
of
always
and
of
the
power,
not
on
mercy
2. The
those
requires
holiness,
wisdom,
love.
IL
Its
boundless
banok.
was
written,
truth to the world
;
steadfastness for the
With
whatever
humanity
can
dispense,
revealed
aad
the
Lord.
all
the
wronged.
III.
every
sense
present
a
realized monotheism
we still
seeing
that comes
of trust.
L It
and opposing
laws, whose
relative working
suggests something better and deeper than
this.
them
also
our
The term
to a
particular individual
close
promises
on
as right, for only
we may trust in
forms and
praise is man, at
what
the
return upon us in
He
is
offers
praise
to
often lost sight of, and then
pnblio
praise
is
services should
have the
 culture
we
every
man's
religious
nature,
cultured
by
fitting
and
continuous
exercise.
So
man
is
Kay's
Ak
antiphonal
cxvm.
1
the utterance of
the
reply
made
to
thbir
friends.
sacrifice.
Vera.
28,
29
are
then
sung,
either
the comment
on Pb.
cxv. 11.
ever. Let
the real
ver.
5.
The
Lord
(comp. Ps.
7.
But
this
At last Darius had done
them justice, but
be
snccessors.
Jehovah
confidence. He
among
Nebu-
chadnezzar,
when
Am-
and
with
intense
of the
the time
(comp,
Exod.
XV.
6,
12).
vers.
had
been
5,
10;
xcvi.
3
acts,
and
out God's
right-
eousness.
The
wil
derness
; and
and probably repeated
many times, while
been
graciously relieved that
triumph
1.
Hatred
or
our
peace,
controL
Our
appeal
is
therefore
rightly
directed
 
reverence and
a
as was
probably at
the dedication
of the
(ver.
24),
it nears
the new temple,
important
the striking
fulfilment
serve
prophecy
of
the
(cf.
Matt.
xxi.
42),
but
bis
death
drew
near,
with
the
history.
They
exposed to
Cyrus advances,
professed;
and
glorious psalm was
so
it
is
behold iniquity.
How, then,
and
condone
it,
seen
whence
and
how
will
praise
marked
the life of
resurrection.
the joy of
who,
for
any
boon.
can,
for any to remember the exact day when that great
spiritual
change
passed
upon
them.
But
some
have
vivid
tell
the
time,
place,
circum-
the day
may be they
assuredly
take
our
text,
and
REVIVAL
them
to
his
—
mere
consists
in
the
importunate
prayer.
to
gain
tills.
It
is
the
would
whom this
whole psalm
mere creed, but
him
on
it be
back
Glod.
And
so
with
us.
the very idea of
8.)
service.
These
not be
a
victory
overall
illustrated in the deaths
dispositions,
paternal
or
maternal
characteiistics.
It
is
the
Divine
mercy.—
R.
T.
Ver.
4.
Personal
experience
of
can
when the heart
When anything like
be
afiSictions,
calamity,
hemmed
in
us.
Human
wisdom,
energy,
think hard
galled
upon
can
always
do.
soul's
through the
Valley of
and
;
fully.
There
is
may, in
can always
breaks
or
of all the
charactered
men
have
to
deliver
themselves).
But
We fly to,
by the old
I
a
the
value
of
is using
martial figures
with
them
by
the
Jehovah-name
inscribed
thereon.
I.
Then
he
becomes
everywhere
the apostles
Master.
man
as
a
cannot
permit
bees
do
their
combs
(see
LXX.),
they
B.
T.
Ver.
18.
constantly
oppressed
with
the
is
but
the
experience
of
the
saints
of
all
in
work
what God
PSAJiMa
«9
with that,
circumstance ;
fitted to times and
difficult
to
separate
only be
so many
by
faith —
soul-vision,
which
reveals
is
we
unto the Name of
received
acts
in
he
made
gates
of
thanksgiving
are
the
Babylon
Jesse, but raised to be the ruler of Israel
and the progenitor of Christ. It was true of his descendant Zerubbabel, the
head of
who
were
God
destined to a chief place in the building up of history.
The emblem
who,
leads
them
aud
the
Solomonic.
lives
whole
Hebrew
nation,
and
builders
this
significance of
aleet
for
2.
The
yea, even
The various
interpretations of
were
used
and join
would have
consecration
of
the
following
Let
man
be
really
thankful,
and
he
outward and visible
that
it
nor
be
con-
joined
with
a
nothing, etc.
development into
doing greater things than the youth could ever
conceive or do. It is the
symmetrical,
And all
considered.
way;
the specification
This is the
5);
but,
that
I
may
out,
forsake
me
no
strength
clause 1.
i
OlMEL.
;
will extend
Ver.
18.
thy
lie
cepts
21
We
all
thy
com-
mandments
judgments at
reason for
 
and health
of
breadth
(ver.
96)
and
;
Kay,
Oheyne,
to
mandments, when
mean,
n
Hk.
Ver.
83.
—Teach
me,
of
thy
commandments.
Keep
ways.
1
Vau.
Ver.
41.
—Let
thy
Even
thy
or,  thy
salvation to
all his
Word.
This
is
wliat
he
a full
of truth
utterly out
him
con-
Bekhabah is
city,
hence
Inclination,
not
onea of the
thanks
unto
mercy
ia
truuted
in
them
as
The
psalmist
They
have
**
to
though
it
craft and malice of
his enemies should only
16,
under-
standing,
me,
glad
he glad.
good. And
him with
pre-
unto
me
does not
me ;
2.e.
hand
and
stroyed
me.
(eomp.
vers.
69,
to
I will look
and so
sustain their
etc.).
be
reached
Ver.
99.
ancients ;
or,
such
as
allow
Yer.
102.
judgments (comp.
Qoicken me, Lord,
(Ps.
cxli.
2).
have
thy
Law
Word.
The
his
promise.
And
let
me
not
be
ashamed
up, and I
are
ultimately
30,
49,
50).
Therefore
I
love
thy
testimonies.
for
of thy Law
made void thy Law.
&r
as
 tiierefore I
Above gold;
yer.
72).
Yer.
and obey
giveth light;
Out
com-
in the midst o(
in-
answerest my
will
and
morning, and cried
50,
51,
61,
Ps.
cxlv.
18).
And
all
A
sense
of
perfect
fall
away
from
grace.
Ver.
166.—
Lord,
I
have
hoped
for
thy
wonld allow.
I
have
striven to keep
all thy commandments.
there
is
ne
intention
a
feels
that
a fountain
In
be so well included in this way.
Vers.
1
psalm
leave
; it
includes
: 1.
Integrity
of
heart.
favour and
of
conduct.
;
to do the will of (Sod (ver.
4).
secure.
To
honourable
in
the
evil.
Writ
are
 
byways and then into
effort
(vers.
4,
16),
refreshing our memory
we ourselves
have gained,
and
cheerful
hope
(ver.
28),
establish us, that
days (ver.
in
many
forms ;
it
is
also from any sudden fall into sin and shame more
particularly from
in
the Divine
of
Christ
and
to
please
him,
we move
then we
its
i
is opened,
but when this initial stage is past, there is fulness
and
the
truth
which
have
IV.
The
has
not
occasion
again
and
again
of
no
betrayal,
can
take
away
friendship of
strong rod
of
a
dangerous
indulgence
[ps.
cxix.
1-176
Yen.
73
87);
 they
persecute
me
wrongly
(ver.
86).
The
expressions
cover
to triumph
His promised
help (vers.
76, 81;
; he is
preparing us
89
iu distant days,
came before us,
human
perennial
enjoyment
As
98
of what
life, and
It continues in
GK)d
under
all
prx>-
in
perceiving
108).
Vers.
121
Christian
life
is
found
in
the
uplifting
of
vocal
me
to
do
in the
message
and the
the counsels that are uttered
in
his
Name.
There
in
loneliness
and
suffering,
and was shrinking
the
net  
what
can
we
do
? We
not
ours,
but
his,
and
pray,
hopefully
and
to
or because they
will and Word
151, 152,
159, 160).
makes perfectly
requires only that which
was,
and
it
will
affection
of personal
personal
obscurity.
intimately to
God, and
in its
God
conformed
to
the
we witness
world
will
and lifelong
 
Ixix.
9
Shows itself in a strono sense of God'b near presence
and qrgat
earnestly
wanton and
we
cherishing
the
feeling,
takint;
the
course,
is
for mere
mechanical thanksgiving
is worthless,
though rendered
that
it
the inner
1. It
 
Eom.
xiii.
11)
is
unconsciousness is not
by
us.
must
presence
The heart
Divine
hand
to
our
body
alive
filled with praise. Prayer and praise will be the two
accompani-
ments
97.
men of
the
truth.
Our
Lord
himself
sought
the
mountain
fold
highest
point.
is a
;
II. The state
Meditation
mistake.
This
applies
to—
L
OUB
FAVOUR.
(Vers.
there
cannot
possibly
be
any
engagement
to
 
shall receive
Matt.
x.
37
we
need
not
be
ashamed
of
ribaldry
of
ungodliness.
also
: 3.
The
condemnation
of
the
good
that
strong
selfishness, the wrong-doing
what
QoA'b
darkness.
nL
which
will
make
us
lead us
journey ; to
anticipate the
to
fraught
own course,
to make
tolerance
of heathenism
not held, and of
;
;
disenchantment,
conveying
an
essentially
and
one
part
or
 I
 
;
 
what he
pietism
falsity
of
Truth and
the Wisdom
work.
style and
extravagant
rhetoric
proves
chief
of such circulation
as it is
and allusions
general tone
much
tried
more
probably
for
the
instruction
of
which
was
of
psalm to
diligtnt search
for
the
edification
mere
reason
are
eight
such
names.
I.
meaning, God's
This
to
hear.
VIII.
psalm is
him and
disastrous to us, whilst this gloriSes him, and is for us
most blessed.
(Ver.
5.)
as God
has
it
V.
so
longed
for.
2.
seldom,
have
up
l(fe
of
such
he
made
conscious
of
his
wretched
yearns for the better way. It
ii
God
who
will
not
liglitly
let
them
go
: it
that at once.
So
more, and so,
blessed deliverance shall
he sees
of
failure
panting, and
hence this
of
in
which
the artisan.
though
unseen
pain, and to
be ashamed of
2.
(1
John
ii.
28.)
that
I
The new
old
ones.
his country in the past, the plea that
he
will
reference
that daily, hourly,
bed
of
 
blood of Christ
be vice
daily life. The
to
Ood's
Word.
For
that
Word
supplies
beauty of
wisest counsel
as to
source of
how
rejoice
therein
theme
of
this
third
section
shown
If
most of us were called on to fill up this ver.
17
after
the
word
bounty, that they may
things
which
he
of us all. To
dark
and
dull,
of
interest in others   It is because the films of sin and prejudice have rendered their
eyesight
now
they
to
preserve.
IV.
By
his Word
to look
steadily on
contempt
dellghti
Your
wants
shall
of
mounting
up
and
not been
Ood
should
make
him
it,
react on himself, as
GREAT HIS TROUBLE IS, and prays and
pleads
heart
no
greater
him.
for
help.
hold
habit of falsehood and lies in
common
God.
Uttering
forgetting
use
Burns
says—
before
God's
THE answer
to THIS
is far higher than mere dast. But it is when
these
things
are
put
in
opposition
to,
and
Even
need of the
is,
feet
soul should
Its
redemption
for
its
see,
and
their
fascination
we
more
Holy Ghost, should yield
the
limpet
cleaves
to
the
rock,
spite
is  
as
here
psalm does
it occur
the matter. We are not. We can and we must
pray for it,
son ; and Lazarus,
the
same
so,
and
thus
the
blood
of
the
martyrs
has
become
the
who by their
and
cowardly
his self-confidence and
Spirit
in
the
see
by
positive
turning
back;
Go
grinding,
and
compels the
greater than that between
command-
tells.
And
ca/reftd
8).
the
has been
said, the
must and
suggests
to the end.
of
of it—they will
talk
•bout it, pray about it, feel warmly, speak fervently, and desire sincerely
about
it,
but
then
came
to
makt
that
with
this
indeed
need
quickening
in
As
the
it
made
to
ways.
—S.
G.
Vers.
;
done
affliction.
(Ver.
50.)
And
what
a
number
of
these
precious
words
conceivable stress
some fit and sure word of
the comfort of Gud.
and swerve beneath
given against
And the
Gl
Vers.
57
latter is the
the world as
being his
his people, but each one of
us
the
life
of
obedience,
Wonderful is the increased hold of God which confessing him
gives to
the soul.
life.
IV.
consequence
—^it
practical consideration
burdens
to
be
be
what
it
may.
VII.
referred
suffered.
But
such
IL
wb bee theu.
 
the boul.
1
the storm
of life
beats hedvily,
 
VI. They
us
con-
to
recognize
say
it,
for
him
the
31, 126,
but
in
the
worth
so is
hoped-for help.
into the
his
sorrow
finds
utterance
in
the deep lines
shrunken
form
told
of
the
as
keep hold
terribly stem.
us so awful
God
hell cannot
destroy us.
So was
tenacity which
never relaxes,
religion
in
been
proved
he
Gud can quicken
VI.
Thebe
is
told of
to us, but God,
have acquired it
his way
the soul that
Vers.
105
of the
eternal life, which
faith
selfish,
sensual,
brutal
herel^the
traps and gnares which
told
watchfulness
and bring it to
path.
judge
by
what
they
saying,
And who
(if
the
great
of
conscience:
the
souls.
n.
But
we
 
thoughts,
for
so
116,
117).
to hate
tht
all
men's
estimation,
when
a
man
to
1m
to tell
up
hii
absolute
property
of
God
of
his
self-devotion.
He
does
not
the needed
work
I
and
of
men,
so
that
gathered
together.
15—
17.)
believing.
is
followed
to
blessed
calm,
confidence,
and
delight
in
God.
Not
mind about
because
of
the
light-gioing
power
of
condition,
he
could
now
preservation,
it, and
power
will
They
produce
The psalmist
Also he prays
for
that
is
like
the
warm
sliining
of
to
spring
a
key-note
which
in
the
Hebrew
this
foundation-truth
nation
the other. When we
ruthlessly
against
the
righteous,
what
coidd
sustain
their
soul
us testimonies
prayers
recorded.
Blessed
is
it
this told
crying
unto
the
Lord.
III.
Its
seasons
of
tttteranob.
(Vers.
147,
148.)
we
When
It
has
helped
possibly
prayer is
directly or
(Vers.
we
them.
The
psalmist
trusts
life.
157
have done
before. Then
come witli
power, for he himself would know not merely what deep affliction was, bnt how God
can
confess
the
mighty
power
be
our
of
Word
which
magnifies.
For
L
of kings, had
who, after
open
up
to
them
other
goes
out,
occasions,
to
The sense
still
for
in
in
 
a
I. Whence it
thus perseveringly
contact
have been
lowly.
IL
How
BBAnTiFUL
IT
—
as
last
IIL The
God will do this
a good work
 
that
body
stained
hy
self-seeking
the
Law
The
genuinely in the way
psalm,
with
poetic soul may meditate
that the subject is
dealt with all round
in
the
first
the three elements
confidence.
God's idea
his idea of
Qod looks
of possibility
Ver.
4.
Care
accepts is
not enough
quite plain in
the Mosaic persuasions
Lord
duty and
Diligence in
has no
much easy to do as a joy to the doer.
They
live the
ministry. Habits
very materially
and ministry.
We all
Bible
counsels
should
(2)
in
an
inex-
dangers
on
evils
actually
lying
influence
2. The Word
time of
Man.
3.
The
Word
of
perils,
was
in
a
mood
of
retrospection
him amid
of his
 
defile
What
life
 
lessons
are
only
guide.
Experience
unto himself.
If any man can,
it is the experi-
If
he
cannot,
of
none of
assertion
material
And
conduct so deeply
weapons in the
 
and
much to
it
helpfulness.
L
Meditation
is
a
neoessabt
uethod
of
knowledge. The revealed Word gives
truth in relation
 
brain-power
the
spiritual
still
The psalmist felt
there was no straiten-
God
I.
from
the
presence
of
is.
Go
where
we
may,
God's
hand
a notion
that largeness
we
need.
III.
has
watch
his
and fruits,
generously,
of
on
the
be
with
Divine
illuminations.
come
into
the
eye-opening
power
of
God.
The
servant
of
Elisha,
with
order to
merely
that
the
vision
is
distorted
large liberty of unhindered service
of
Q-od.
The
apostle
gives
the
from
thk cibcumstakoeb.
which circumstances
II.
the
Word
and
And
higher
the
prayer,
quickenings
which
the
free
movement
of
the
soul.
The
heart
enlarged
is
to
God.
II.
It
if
energy,
is
presented
to
only. It
human fellowship.
how
if this twofolJ-
said,
The
psalmist,
in
will,
and
obedience shall
; he
over-
keep advancing.
The earnest
1—
17&
made
be
made
plain
to
 go
directly
concern
us;
they
to unfolding relations
of the
which God's
revealed will
and
his holy
Law, is
a
rebound
it
to
impulses
action
inspired
and
directed.
The
heart
is
regarded
as
right line.
inward
power
grace,
of
God.
He
is
free
because
comprehensive
Here it IS
and in the Hebrew
The
only
man
in
 obedience
obedience
by
whomsoever
it
is
done,
say,  We
Neither
such obedience
cannot. The
We
may
in
everything
God
him
is
precisely
expressed
(Pa.
xci.
14),
to be
promises.
How
God
makes
spoken
words
the
a
written
which
to
ground
his trust in God. 2. Man's trust on him who gives the promises.
And
the
man
we reaUy hope in him
who spoke
the Word.
II. Man's tbust becombs an effective plea with
God. Because the honour
God's Name is boimd up in response to trust. Illustrate
by
Joshua's
is the
highest plea
man can
use with
to be in sympathy
in a godless court; but the thing is brought closer
home
We all
love praise.
is quite
wounded.
God that
is upon
him. To
reeds
before
subtle,
163
which
of
noon,
or
halts
for
the
night
in some inn or caravansary, which is for the time the house
of
way, and
tradition,
not
ballads
of
war,
or
wine,
or
love,
the comfort of my rest. What is
striking
they
were,
it is
man
or
to
goodness.
which
his
fellow-men,
who
wonder
what seems
to them
in their
way.
They
nourish
untruthfulness.
The
L
The
tbue
bfhebe
of
self-examination.
to
God.
lUust.
of
the confessional.
2. The
wholly
for
conduct
obedience
of
Helper is
godly associations and friendships.
brought
 
by the way,
and must
grow
one to another.
BufBce.
All
who
God,
people.
The
law
friends
low, and
abbaths are to the bodily
life.
They
is
some-
importance.
How
can
God, who finds
times of
unworthy.
The
meditation
of
to
life
from
a
afresh
opportunity to
new resolves
to
be
troubled
  (Frayer-
book
Version)—
to and
follows on
the
endeavour to live a
much as
Ver.
80.
perfect animal,
in all points realizes and
satisfies
to find a standard,
that he
He
has
with
his
must be
with
his
own
particular
disposition.
A
perfect
in one purpose. And if
taken
into conduct by any accident, but borne to it by
a deliberate choice, based
of
the
was
a
custom of the ancients to hang skins of wine in the
smoke of
a fire,
bring
it
has
the
with his
their
and
the
good man
a wine-skin
a
tim<>
of
suffering
and
; no
blackened,
like
per-
sistently
It
sometimes
the
Old
Testament
were
family blood-avenger. A
But if
himself,
do
apprehend
God's
personal
welfare
power.
The
godly
hag
—
young
answers.
Then
they
often
mistake
Divine life
dying down. And
the
the
all our
real needs.
—B, T.
now
in
the
museum
at
Berlin.
So
the
ways
in
which
different
times.
Here
Word.
L
man when he is
a man's
Sometimes
dis-
position;
through
and the sanctifying
with the
the
whole,
therefore,
must
Let
perfection
be
that
no
life
ever
II.
If
Ver. 97.
and
of
influence of fear is either uneducated, untrained, or un-selt-trained. As
science
destroys
superstition,
so
nothing
interested
in
us—
inspiration
highest inspiration.
And yet
Law
something
an
actual
foroe
of
range
prehensive,
They
are
limited
by
the
imperfection
of
the
No
displacing
range
of
aud
use
a
body
and
a
mind.
The
is
involved
in
to
step
by
an
effort
be
The straitened
man is
himself. These
hindrances are
over
the
line.
self-interest ever ready
he caa
 refraining
his
light. And
need for
Ttie
streets
uulighted,
his
eyesight
in
it
will
offence ; sore wounded
life
better
than
others
; but
every
man
is
beaten
by
WITH THE HELP OF
the
light
illumines.
The
rescue from sudden
passionate
movement
of
feeling,
very
many
made
life,
however
distressful
they
might
be.
that
triumphed
over
circumstances.
L
providing
become
a
moral
Divine
For the
in
God
yoke
is,
easy
by
disease.
disease.
Then
measure
guarded.
But
subject
to
infection
had
m the
It is a well-kept
will only keep in
be like
near to the
line,
III. Thk good man's safety lies in going stbaioht on.
Swerving
is
God's
nent and
unseasonable things
should
mind
;
it.
one. If he had not brought his
heart
mind,
but
the
to
them
within
limitations,
tions arising from
yet every
man
Because
a
vague
that our hearts are the sphere
only
indwelling
Spirit.
in
the
ourselves
in
mind
ously
with
the
of
all
human
trust.
The
scherat-r
undermines
society.
We
men on
the
verse
;
will give us
practical and helpful
by
showing
that
in
who
the
insidious
always the other
He
prays
against
the
of
human
existence,
to
isolate
Those in
Jewish
nation
But
lest
he
is
trying
from
intended to
is intended
heart of
away
the
righteous
calamities should
;
everything depends
of
mind
exaggerated
sees.
He
if Qod
no
di)
not
to and
for
ever
 
to
Word
mere
store-
adviser, of
a good
live unto
the  devices
effective,
successful way. It
with
bt misusing it.
material
for
doctrinal
conflicts
rather
than
the
Word.
It
 
do not ; know
the
enthusiasm
ways in
do
is
not
own
ideas
8. T.
Coleridge says,
Decalogue
in
the Word of God, and
astonisheth the hearts of those that consider it and feel it.
Wonderful,
And
wonderful is the
It would seem as if the psalmist
were asking God
business. But that
It
is
the psalmist's plea an
of Christianity,
the redemption
all the
its life
is God.
to
it, in
the life
that is
therefore
what
he
wants
God is
help
him
in
Ver, IM.—
of this entire
a who is in some kind of bondage to his
fellow-man,
the
feeling
of
freedom.
He
gradually
this
passion
in bonds.
They
Liberty
for
But
the
true
liberty,
likes.
one,
given
as little
The face
of God
a
person
is
is to show
was troubled;
it comes to
state. And
man
provided
nothing
of
save
through
revelations
made
his thinking.
wholly
idea
must
be
associ-
ated
with a
 
reputation. It is pointed
much despised by the
surrounding kingdoms, and had
Eastern powers. But we may take it as a remarkable
revelation of
worthily is
self-estimates.
hypocrisy of
worldly man never talks
himself,
not
on
sincerity
to
say
or, as we
only
of
worthy
to
which
lies
pleas which man may
—
ful and
best of energy
and we
contents of the
rdigioui
meditation.
I.
Meditation
see nothing
unusual. Look
usually the
life.
woapons, and betake
exag-
gerates
psalmist
he
misapprehend
it.
so
easily
his
matter
thyself. —
R.
T.
Ver.
155.—
?
and
(2)
of the
God's further salvations. He cannot have them
if
he
is
be. Illustrate
circumstances.
could do nothing
for his boy
so long aa
snul-salvation
until
he
feels
be
did not care for
can work.
deliverance.
So
the
direct relation
the
precepts
all
of life
poorly
represents
that
and
which
makes
the
soldier
a
model
Culture
a
man,
of duty
IV.
into
the
service.
There
man has
the joy
possible
 
trophies
or
spoils
of
war.
I.
treasure hid
selleth
all
that
he
hath,
and
buyeth
that
field.
gained;
as
when
success
it is thought that
to
be
found
for
enjoyment
II.
The
should
see
to
that
continuity
re
[presentation
was
lie.
No
form
or
a
lie.
In
whatever
way
man
constructs
thought
and
imagination
he
himself
and
false
to
God.
n.
Falsehood
in
reukion
regarded
as
time-serving.
The
stronger
responsi-
life.
 
ways
in
up.
It
lean
upon.
L
God'b
Wobd
steadies
bt
BBAOiNa
us
UP.
peril
of
and
he
up
own judgment
on
stream
till
taught
m
the
effect
of
joy, and it will
and
stronger.
renewing
Perowne says,
has
so
asserted
precepts,
make
psalmist is at
tions.
(1)
 niat
principle
of
love
God
with
III. The
Hence
Spirit,
our
Teacher.
the hungering
I. Sfibitual
presence
the fulfilling
 
shalt
enlarge,
etc.
If God has laid upon us laws which his power must enable
us
1,
Ovd
is
It is his
should
upon
us.
make
of
them.
The
 
1. The supreme
in
thoughtless
frivolity
been fouled
to this.
of man's
importance.
Siorit.—S.
IL
How
MAY
8U0H
A
HOPE
to
the
fate
of
bis
of
only
men of
the world
—apathy, pride,
is inexpressible
ever come
the
temple
to
of
chance.
Jerusalem at the
preceding clause.
they
perver-
we
avail
impossible
to
think
that
the
power
of
Whenever, therefore,
imworthy of
back the
from
own
sacredness of his
^oss, Buffering,
death, according
ungeuial
latitude and
large
proportion
have
much
to
do
:
will not last
part
of
the
discipline
through
provides daily opportunity for
worst
situation,
or
sustain
him who
is surrounded by the false, the treacherous, and the c ueL
They
of
psalm.
Concerning
lips, we learn
horrid
missionary.
Nothing
but
or
office,—
these
and
others
of God
;
now
tiw
Divine
for
us.
But
human distress
have done this. 3.
Others harden their heart*,
the
but will
seldom adopted.
II. A
for such distress
earnestness,
of
humility,
of
all must know. Let us adopt
this
manner
of
prayer,
and
we
 
uwn
on
only
because
thus
he
can
work
be
done
to
him
would
any
of
us
blacken
which true
skunk,
he
emits
an
odour
of
falsehood
which
cannot
be
good Lord,
neighbour.
Then
from letting feeling
others (see
cruelty
of
children
to animals). It comes from envy at the success of others.
II.
of idle
man has
Ver.
3.
speech
becomes
a
all the while
deceptive
nature.
a
profit,
though
they
are
neyer
at the
They
are
A
the
preceding
one^
the lying
coals. This explanation
complains
that,
Ixiv.
3;
Iv.
21;
lix.
7).
Both
deceitful
It is in
on
the
be
the
all the
shoots
it
from
is better
so
the
arrows
fire
are not to be
circumstances and
to use the feeling.
by
to rule the
even
amidst
uncomfobt-
of
the
psalmist,
restored exiles,
to
temple,
order to re-establish, and a national
character to
internal peace,
is
the
one
condition
on
which
our
spiritual
the restored exQes, that,
it is
better for
we
may
freely
peak
this
our trouble, and we need not change our spirit of peace-loving
•nd peace-seeking under any
war-
tpirit.
may be able to
I.
they
hills,
and
is
satisfied
him.
He
then
proceeds
to
teetion.
four
stanzas
will watch unceasingly,
;
observation
preserve
in (comp. Dent,
 
We
have
sometimes
to
and
strike
than
it
(vers.
1,
2).
III.
constancy
of
his
care.
He
crushing
depreciation
•nd
desertion
1—
8.
psalm
looks
for
foot, a thing
5).
The
as this
moral causes, it is not to
be wondered
pious imagination than the
will
reply
I.
to
return
to
a
can
lay
rule. There have
people
saved, does
think
to
be
so,
be
17),
is not
and
external
peace and joy
the deaf,
soul.
which we English people
sacred writers employ
only one our
of
the
sense
leading,
in this
not
see
that
instance, but we
out of these
the
same
word
us
I.
Take
days of
resources
of
civilization.
time
the
varied affairs
how
we
need
absorb
all
time,
all
thought,
in this sense also.
Vers.
1,
2.
might have been
and looked away
over the broad,
and
he
remembering liow, amid
him,
and
fill
ABE WEAK. We are In the
world—^in
by
its
whirl
of
excitement,
absorbed
the eyes and
stock and
trade. To
the
high
the
soaring birds
of song,
awhile,
we
might
by
look
find
nothing
of
man's—
the promise,
glorified.
4.
Looking
up,
listen
will feel
wreathings
—his
hope
L
The
;
Jud^a
others found
safety in
their God
to the
him
when
he
 
II.
The
writing
men
did get nearer God.
change-
us all; and precisely
which assures of his love, and help, and lead.—B.
T.
Ver.
4.
sleep. Th«
Hebrew word for
night-watchman is that ha
can
be
inconceivable that
than
keeping
awake;
God's
sedng
includes
what
is
by
man
it
and
prompt
and
gracious
upholdings
and
needs
to
be
always
kept
in
mental, or spiritual
the
peril
of
his
beyond a
doubt, that
for
The
to the moonbeams,
 
rapidly
putrid,
and
meat,
known.
The
moon
the godly life
atmosphere,
low,
which only cultured spiritual
influences, suggestive examples.
have
the
moonbeams.
What,
?
 
that God
thoughts.
that
which
injuriously
ously
mere
we
should
rather
we
should
rather
and
involves
making
that he can recognize.
a
revelation
to
about
us.
IL
God
happen persons acting
awakened man
sees evil
but
free
moral
shown that God's
daily renewed gift
that
would keep it. And this
assurance
come
upon
God's
contiaued
the new life
His concern for
illustrate
his
care
for
the
dominion
of
sin,
the
through,
our
own
soul-keeping.
of
life.
Man's
enterprise
exaggerat-
; and we
the far-o£r
the
heights
of
 
love. (Vers.
suffer him
calamitous,
events
in our
eternal good.—
unto
the
Name
thrones
of
jndg-
troversies, and Absalom when he usurped
the
The
inhabitants
thy
good.
The
tabernacle
set
Jesus Christ.
Z%e Divine
which he
are
elsewhere.
(2)
He
will
heartiness in
there is strength
6).
is, if
to
the
extend
cover
their
lives,
they
evil and
and
to
pray
strive
for
 
very imperfect
method of seeking good if we do not bring our personal con-
tribution
command ourselves,
be gracious
our hands.
The
abomina-
tion,
Jerusalem
work of
God in
II. Heb people.
to
reason
4.)
Jerusalem
or looses the
qf
the
of duty, the
is
we can
God.
soothed,
and
of
the
place,
force
still.
The
which the
with him, as
has
to
join
in
: they
are
joy
of
the ten
glories
and
trouble
feast
draws
near,
his
friends
his
psalm.
them to
happy faces, and
tediousness
 
end
of
David
and
of
his
house.
Filled
with
these
be a
of the alacrity
and
religious
metropolis of the tribes. We fix attention on the personal pleasure
in
the
public
worship
of
God
service
occasionally.
Attendance
No
evident
heart
had
they should be unless
spiritual
tastes
cultured.
Then
he
finds
his
ring near the
north-eastern side
the
palaces
of
the
kings
Abana;
below standing
involves
word of
of the
far from their eyes,
it is not far
unity
join
in
Jehovah, the nation's
God ; it is
of
Churches.
a
religious
service.
of
unity
if
''
generation
to
a
material
type.
This
Christian
Creed,
'I
believe
material
be no room for
heart of a
The
true
remedy
for
disappointment
within
the
—E.
T.
Ver.
4,
phenomena
of
heaven,
nature
always
displays
a
gracious
adaptation
to
special
opportunities
and
intervals
when
and
devote
of
attempting to discuss
to
which
be kept
in mind
that Israel
the central authority
and
made
aim
to
altars is
join
in
the
tribal associations, the
The
formal
religions
unity
so
jealously
requiring
our
one Father.
only
ever
before
national holiday-times. The
are
consecrated
to
God.
They
must
see
that
most
be
times
them joy
treated
union
of
the Head of the State as he was
Head
of
the
not
be
Jerusalem was first
the two were
uan's
with his
of the feasts. We have the joy and music of
the
journey
the
Beautifully
the
scenes
at
and
of
our
childhood.
connected-
upon
peospbritt.
the
help
of
the
familiar
of peace
for nations,
This
may
be
illustrated
by
to
spoil
the
life
of
the
Church.
When
work
and
of Church
Pbospeeity veey laegkly depends upon peayee. Show the natural influence
of
prayer.
It
lifts
of
clouds.
Who
is
it,
are
the
peace-
and you will be
prayer.
country
was
breathe
a
sake
of
his
brethren
he
calls upon
belioious. The
thing other than
power
to
how
can
he
love
con-
ducted
the
jealousy. The sect
our
concern from the nation, whose moral and spiritual well-being should ever
be the subject of our prayer and
our
national life, and
life. The peace-loving and peace-seeking
citizens are the
relations, and charity in human relations,
are
the
blessing
of
a
nation
 
citizens are the
and
religious
associations
; as
we
try
servants
look
ot hia will. Such signa were usually
given
will, and there-
npcu
about to help and
is
repeated
for
greater
pass through
;
in one place
goes on his way
ill
treatment—
of
with
we
as the dropping of
 
must
find
II.
OuB
his
system
of
Divine
time
or
way
of
deliverance.
6.
to step. See
the writer.
IN GoD.
God
is,
our
that
he
for
the
beckoning
he
which
will
by
uplooking
realize relations with
of
a
conditions. The
testimony of
a thankful
heart; acknow-
far well.
the master or mistress.
farthest edge of
by
threefold spirit in
principle
III.
The
spirit
of
humilitt.
A
is
scorn
Instead of
this, contempt
humbled them,
made them
what we
our
speedy
failure,
the
ultimate
Refuge
from
in the heavens
the
righteous
cause.
Greatest
power
the
bensk
of
dspbndenok.
the
sistible torrent-stream,
breath
the
of
fha
Lord.
made
heaven
in this
deep and strong
most fervent gratitude
supreme kindness
—
A human
spirit is
the
exercise
of
his
goodness
and
down utterly. But God is on our side. He will
not forsake
(1)
time,
from
he
power
placing
in the midst
avoided
serious danger
of losing
parting,
by
the
immediate
spirit,
or
through
some
instrumentality,
he
arouses
us,8howi
which
Jesus, this Divine deliverance
may
HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS.
contemplation of
the distress
circumstances which
from time
might and
is
us
had
that op
the Chuboh
often
boat
on
the
and Jesus, and
be asleep. One
came. And so has it been again and again with
the
Church
of
;
centuries down to
life of the Church, so that religion
has
been
pre-Keformation ages.
But the
Lord was
then
of the
speak
temptation,
they
have
the
malice
has—
we
will,
by
his
grace,
be
assaults.
What
need
we
or
broken.
too
has
From
in
'
you
freel'
I
of a
'
?
'
'
free
I ought to
sure that the Lord
Jesus Christ is more
come
is well
 
which
associated
from that of the
the
snare
better
the
returned
learned
The national life had always been in
the
special
who
could
up
them
up,
when
their enemies might have suggested
naturally
the
to
recognize
tuddenness
The waters suggested are
the psalmist was the sudden,
fanatical, and
Sanballat
overbearing
and
the floods. He lets them flow on just
the same.
He may
IL Jehovah's besistance mat be a
pbesbbtation. Only the
strain and
of the
subtlety
of
their
enemies,
of
this,
for
It is the
ccm do. The stamp of impossible
cannot
rest
say
that we
 
common
to
man,
and
such people
1.
Compassed
all
vlace of
from
the
little,
and
associate
ordinary, little. And
we need to
everything
gracious
and need. Therefore
in
the
biographical
working
like our
own. 2.
exigencies,
no
surprises.
disposition
inconceivable.
t
That
lives if need be. What has he done in the
vicissitudes of the
Ter.
8.
the returned exiles. The previous psalm brought before us their
distresses through
—
joy
in
;
of
may have
su<;gesting
recall
to
mind
conviction fixes
Help
in
a
name
I
Why
not
of
Righteousness,
or
thought,
deliverance.
This
psatm
is
their native land,
the
Cbeatob
the
ont,
onto
really
goodness
? That
is
fraudulent
merchant
or
at the
the
devout
heart of
the holy.
righteous?
Does
Goi
do
ai
these.
We
It is
and ruin.
fraud, falsity,—these
from
the
stings
is
there
no
penalty
spirit
wise and kind
: 1.
of
God
11
; his
It is
it
seems
to
me^
that
these
psalms,
from one of which our text is taken, were all of
them
songs
of
the
all
but
overtaken
preservation
and
whom
God
he had not
only graciously preserved
rock
beloved home. We listen
to
a
beautiful
utters
formed
the
evening
their
The
to
their
them.
the
common
surroundings
enjoy,
has
They that
them with
Melchizedek,
the
cities
only preceded,
be
said
to
be
as
by
There is no more reassuring
argument to the mind anxious for the
welfare
her
history
in
the past.
This psalm is truer of her than it was of IsraeL 2.
0/
the
individual
believer
it
may
mercies. But it is not so really. Bead the triumphant
Challenge of
St. Paul
Divine
by the mighty
does
1,
Because
God
shall not best upon
dark and very
tunnel,
theu
to
be
why
desires
if
the
4.)
18).
IV.
But
MUST
never
be
departed
from.
To
turn
(ver.
6).
The
most
threatening
Zion
It
whole,
The
 
to
the
plete
and
out of our
own past of
It may
;
All the
;
higher defence in
must
is
of the psalmist
the
Captivity,
bbdemption
a penalty is
a
man.
purpose, within
to
restored
that man
and
no
He
on
the
ground
of
from the
it.
goodness. This is
embodied in familiar
the
workers
 
to
heathenism;
truth of heart
down
God's
equivocal
ones,
are
the open,
of danger
not realize
that they
right road, though
They
Churches
secret and
which cannot be moved, but abideth
for
3.)
away
from
a
not utter
captivity
The first
put of
land,
are
rest of
deliverance
comes
see
at
home,
or
he
who
is
immured
within
four
we
may
the
power
and
17
to it;
for our
II.
One
exiles
fail
sister, or
brother, to
tasted. 1.
he
of
husbandry.
appeal must be
reasoning,
of
memory,
of
anticipation
; to
the
affections,
which
to the highest, even
as
work under Master in
what
Christ
to the minds and hearts
of
men.
the
sight
to welcome
in
which
we
letter,
or
we
we may
and
IV. The
well
be fruitful of
to
the
hour,
prayerfully
1. There are
witness-bearing Church. When
such Church is
themselves
were
threatened
with
all
harvest was
pany of
beautifully
to
describe
the
that of
Judah. The
Law
of
God's
household,
and
what
is
far
of
given
;
to
Judah,
works
to
serve
the
living
that
be
true.
This
a
has done for
Christ
3.
Confession
on
the
part
of
teabned fob.
see
how
much
more
yet
is
needed.
—S. C.
field
is
one
in
throngs
image
he
has
been bidden of the Lord to do ; and he does
it
in
and
homeward
with
many
are
the
brings
is for
vhich
had
wrought
such
mischief
for
the
nation,
it
 
scarcely believe
listened to what
a
natural
and
phases
of
Christian
too cold.
warm
atmosphere
the Lord,
joy
upon
their
heads.
II.
Jot
a febil.
There was
as
with
sang on the shores
at what
redemption involved.
some dispositions,
it is
them,
Th ,
what
but
and even seem to be a sort of relic of
it.
Ttiere
is
a
unexpected Divine
wilder-
ness,
which
one moment are dead and dry, and then suddenly become
flowing
rivers.
It
to
the
water-courses
for
make
possible
his
giving
still
more.
—E.
T.
Ver.
5.
Sad
sowing-times.
distress
sufficient
to
draw
them
from
any
eye.
In
seasons
of
a
musket
in
I
things
beyond
our
but
in
workers, and of those
if it
ing,
if
men
with the one talent
no
the law
in its
resultant
a
law
experimentally
all for
Son in
them.
2.
When
they
bring
or
promise
more
than
we
laugh
as
those
who
have
come
and
tears.
(Ver.
4.)
Begins
and weeping
—to sow
and
with
an
abv/ndant
recompense
when
Ezod.
xiv.
14
But
children
are
manifestly
the
children
warrior.
Yer.
5.—
^Happy
hii
speak
to trace
he keeps
in play.
husbandman
of our
down,
Many
a
knew
temporal success. 3. We
of
scanty,
yet
practical defeat. The springs of pure and
lasting
joy
hard
toil,
but
(1)
a
blessing
on
our
work.
Be
diligent
powers
you may
There is
laborious, and also
beloved
in
sleep.
I. What great things God does /or our bodily w