Category: Poetry
1 Lord, a dwelling-place hast Thou been for us In generation after generation. 2 Before the mountains were born, Or Thou gavest birth to the earth and the world, Even from everlasting, Thou art God. 3 Thou turnest frail man back to dust, And sayest, "Return, ye sons of man." 4...
an atmosphere of hatred, and appealing gently to God; while vv. 21-31 expatiate in the presentation to Him of the suppliant's feebleness and cries for deliverance, but barely to...
9. vv. 1 and 4 as different, and render the former "those who returnSudden and great revolutions for the better have for their first effect bewilderment and a sense of unreality. Most men have some supreme moment of blessedness in their memories...
6. xxiv. 1, where also "the fulness of it" precedes, with the result ofhaving no verb expressed which suits the nouns, since "the world and the dwellers therein" cannot well be called on to "thunder." Instead of the "plain" and "trees of the forest...
4. lxxiii. Here, as there, boastful speech and haughty carriage aremade prominent, being put before even cruelty and oppression. "They well out, they speak--arrogance": both verbs have the same object. Insolent self-exaltation pours from the fo...
7. BOOK V.1 Give thanks to Jehovah, for He is good, For His loving-kindness [endures] for ever. 2 Let the redeemed of Jehovah say [thus], Whom He has redeemed from the gripe of distress,...
2. vv. 14-16, God speaks, and that He speaks of, not to, the person wholoves and clings to Him. At ver. 14, then, we must suppose a change of speaker, which is unmarked by any introductory formula. Looking back over the remainder of the psalm, we f...
10. lxxxi. 16) has been fulfilled, its condition having been compliedwith, and Israel having hearkened to Jehovah. Protection, blessing, tranquillity, abundance, are the results of obedience, God's gifts to them that fear Him. So it was in the ps...
1. BOOK IV.1 Lord, a dwelling-place hast Thou been for us In generation after generation. 2 Before the mountains were born, Or Thou gavest birth to the earth and the world, Even from everl...
3. lxxxix. 17, triumph or the vindication of the psalmist by hisdeliverance. Ver. 10_b_ is very doubtful. The word usually rendered "I am anointed" is peculiar. Another view of the word takes it for an infinitive used as a noun, with the mea...
5. vv. 7 and 8, on the grounds that "the transposition explains whatZion heard, and brings the summons to the false gods into connection with the emphatic claim on behalf of Jehovah in ver. 9." But there is no need for the change, since there is...