Trapp's Complete Commentary · Psalms Capítulo 125

« A Song of degrees. » They that trust in the LORD [shall be] as mount Zion, [which] cannot be removed, [but] abideth for ever.

They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount Zion — Great is the stability of a believer’s felicity. Winds and storms move not a mountain; an earthquake may, but not easily, remove it. That mystical mount Zion, the Church, immota manet, is unmoveable; so is every member thereof, for the main of his happiness.

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As the mountains [are] round about Jerusalem, so the LORD [is] round about his people from henceforth even for ever.

As the mountains are round about Jerusalem — That is, say some, as the angels; but we take it literally. Jerusalem was surrounded with many high mountains, which were a great safeguard to it; yet did not always defend it, as the Lord doth his, by being a wall of fire round about them, Zechariah 2:5 .

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For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.

For the rod of the wicked shall not rest — Fall upon the lot of the righteous it may, notwithstanding that former promise of God’s protection; but he will take care they be not tempted above that they are able, 1 Corinthians 10:13 ; he sets the time, and appoints the measure, Psalms 30:5 Revelation 2:10 .

Lest the righteous, … — Overcome by impatience, or drawn aside by the world’s either allurements or affrightments, should yield and comply, or seek to help themselves out of trouble by sinister practice. God (saith Chrysostom) doth like a lute player, who will not let the strings of his lute be too slack, lest it mar the music, nor suffer them to be too hard stretched or screwed up, lest they break.

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Do good, O LORD, unto [those that be] good, and [to them that are] upright in their hearts.

Do good, O Lord, unto those that be good — But afflicted by those men of thy hand, Psalms 17:14 , who are the rod in thine hand, Isaiah 10:5 . Do good in thy good pleasure (for nothing can be claimed by the very best) to such, according to thy promise, Psalms 125:3 , which here I put in suit for them; let the Lord be with the good, 2 Chronicles 19:11 .

And to them that are upright in their hearts — For such only are good indeed, and approved in Christ, as was Apelles, Romans 16:10 , and Nathanael, John 1:47 , notwithstanding their infirmities. Hypocrisy imbaseth the purest metal, turneth gold into rusty iron; sincerity doth the contrary by a divine kind of alchemy.

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