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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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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown · 1871

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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871). CCEL expanded electronic edition states it is in the public domain.

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Psalms Chapter 123 1 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ps 123:1-4.

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Ps 123:1-4.

An earnest and expecting prayer for divine aid in distress.

1. (Compare

Ps 121:1).

thou that dwellest--literally, "sittest as enthroned" (compare

Ps 2:4; 113:4, 5).

Psalms Chapter 123 2 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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2. Deference, submission, and trust, are all expressed by the figure. In the East, servants in attending on their masters are almost wholly directed by signs, which require the closest observance of the hands of the latter. The servants of God should look (1) to His directing hand, to appoint them their work; (2) to His supplying hand

(Ps 104:28),

to give them their portion in due season; (3) to His protecting hand, to right them when wronged; (4) to His correcting hand

(Isa 9:13; 1Pe 5:6;

compare

Ge 16:6);

(5) to His rewarding hand.

Psalms Chapter 123 3 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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3. contempt--was that of the heathen, and, perhaps, Samaritans

(Ne 1:3; 2:19).

Psalms Chapter 123 4 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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4. of those that are at ease--self-complacently, disregarding God's law, and despising His people.