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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 118 1 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Psalms Chapter 118 5 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
5. distress--literally, "straits," to which "large place" corresponds, as in
Ps 4:1; 31:8.
Psalms Chapter 118 6 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
6, 7. Men are helpless to hurt him, if God be with him
(Ps 56:9),
and, if enemies, they will be vanquished
(Ps 54:7).
Psalms Chapter 118 8 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
8, 9. Even the most powerful men are less to be trusted than God.
Psalms Chapter 118 10 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
10-12. Though as numerous and irritating as bees
[Ps 118:12],
by God's help his enemies would be destroyed.
Psalms Chapter 118 12 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
12. as the fire of thorns--suddenly.
in the name, &c.--by the power
(Ps 20:5; 124:8).
Psalms Chapter 118 13 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
13-16. The enemy is triumphantly addressed as if present.
Psalms Chapter 118 15 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
15. rejoicing and salvation--the latter as cause of the former.
Ps 118:1-29.
After invoking others to unite in praise, the writer celebrates God's protecting and delivering care towards him, and then represents himself and the people of God as entering the sanctuary and uniting in solemn praise, with prayer for a continued blessing. Whether composed by David on his accession to power, or by some later writer in memory of the restoration from Babylon, its tone is joyful and trusting, and, in describing the fortune and destiny of the Jewish Church and its visible head, it is typically prophetical of the Christian Church and her greater and invisible Head.
1-4. The trine repetitions are emphatic (compare
Ps 118:10-12, 15, 16; 115:12, 13).
Let . . . say--Oh! that Israel may say.
now--as in
Ps 115:2;
so in
Ps 118:3, 4.
After "now say" supply "give thanks."
that his mercy--or, "for His mercy."