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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown · 1871
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown · 1871
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871). CCEL expanded electronic edition states it is in the public domain.
Psalms Chapter 106 1 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Psalms Chapter 106 2 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
2. His acts exceed our comprehension, as His praise our powers of expression
(Ro 11:33).
Their unutterable greatness is not to keep us back, but to urge us the more to try to praise Him as best we can
(Ps 40:5; 71:15).
Psalms Chapter 106 3 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
3. The blessing is limited to those whose principles and acts are right. How "blessed" Israel would be now, if he had "observed God's statutes"
(Ps 105:45).
Psalms Chapter 106 4 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
4, 5. In view of the desert of sins to be confessed, the writer invokes God's covenant mercy to himself and the Church, in whose welfare he rejoices. The speaker, me, I, is not the Psalmist himself, but the people, the present generation (compare
Ps 106:6).
visit--(Compare
Ps 8:4).
Psalms Chapter 106 5 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
5. see the good--participate in it
(Ps 37:13).
thy chosen--namely, Israel, God's elect
(Isa 43:20; 45:4).
As God seems to have forgotten them, they pray that He would "remember" them with the favor which belongs to His own people, and which once they had enjoyed.
thine inheritance--
(De 9:29; 32:9).
Psalms Chapter 106 6 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
6. Compare
1Ki 8:47; Da 9:5,
where the same three verbs occur in the same order and connection, the original of the two later passages being the first one, the prayer of Solomon in dedicating the temple.
sinned . . . fathers--like them, and so partaking of their guilt. The terms denote a rising gradation of sinning (compare
Ps 1:1).
with our fathers--we and they together forming one mass of corruption.
Psalms Chapter 106 7 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
7-12. Special confession. Their rebellion at the sea
(Ex 14:11)
was because they had not remembered nor understood God's miracles on their behalf. That God saved them in their unbelief was of His mere mercy, and for His own glory.
the sea . . . the Red Sea--the very words in which Moses' song celebrated the scene of Israel's deliverance
(Ex 15:4).
Israel began to rebel against God at the very moment and scene of its deliverance by God!
Psalms Chapter 106 8 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
8. for his name's sake--
(Eze 20:14).
Ps 106:1-48.
This Psalm gives a detailed confession of the sins of Israel in all periods of their history, with special reference to the terms of the covenant as intimated
(Ps 105:45).
It is introduced by praise to God for the wonders of His mercy, and concluded by a supplication for His favor to His afflicted people, and a doxology.
1. Praise, &c.--(See on
Ps 104:35),
begins and ends the Psalm, intimating the obligations of praise, however we sin and suffer
1Ch 16:34-36
is the source from which the beginning and end of this Psalm are derived.