EXEGESIS: THE CONTEXT: This psalm is a community lament in which the psalmist recounts blessings conferred on the people by the Lord (vv. We are, at the same time, taught that the cause to which we are to trace the sudden elevation of these aliens to so great honor, is the favor of God. The springs of the joy of a carnal worldling lie in wealth and pleasure; but the springs of the joy of a gracious soul lie in the word of God and prayer. The foundation is upon the holy mountains. . Now, it is added, by way of confirmation, that the number of the new progeny shall be exceeding great, so that the city which had been for a time uninhabited, and afterwards only half filled with a few people, shall be crowded with a vast population. Holiness is the strength and firmness of the church. Wherever they may have been born, whether in Palestine, or Ethiopia, or Tyre, they shall profess themselves citizens of the holy city. Psalm 88 - A song. Jerusalem was where Melchizedek reigned as king and priest. According to mahalath leannoth. Commentary on Psalm 84:8-12 (Read Psalm 84:8-12 ) In all our addresses to God, we must desire that he would look on Christ, his Anointed One, and accept us for his sake: we must look to Him with faith, and then God will with favour look upon the face of the Anointed: we, without him, dare not show our faces. Of the Korahites. All of them shall voluntarily renounce their own countries in which they had before proudly boasted. 48:2. Selah. 24:2), which are continually ebbing and flowing, and are a very weak foundation; Babel was built in a plain, where the ground was rotten. 87 1-3 He founded Zion on the Holy Mountain— and oh, how God loves his home! (Psalm 137:5). But as this might be considered unsupported by the usage of the Hebrew term, I am rather inclined to adopt, as most suitable to the subject in hand, the opinion that lookings is the proper translation, the root of the word signifying an eye. (1-3) It is filled with the Divine blessing. The foregoing psalm was very plain and easy, but in this are things dark and hard to be understood. Zion is God’s elect city (verses 1-3), a place where even the Gentiles are gathered (verses 4-6), and the source of new life in God’s kingdom (verse 7). Of the Sons of Korah. All my springs are in thee, O Zion! Psalm 87 The Joy of Living in Zion. I It is set to the music of the Austrian National Hymn, composed by Franz Joseph Haydn, and the words are those of John Newman. 2. And the ministry of the Church, and it alone, is undoubtedly the means by which we are born again to a heavenly life. LORD, you are the God who saves me; day and night I cry out to you. Commentary on Psalm 119:1-8 (Read Psalm 119:1-8) This psalm may be considered as the statement of a believer's experience. more than all the dwellings of Jacob. 87 His foundation is in the holy mountains. 1-3), pleas for salvation (vv. A Psalm. Biblical Commentary (Bible study) Psalm 85. Walford connects the two clauses in the same manner, "They sing with musical instruments, All my springs are in thee.'" God says, "I will reckon Egypt and Babylon with those that know me. All our affections are then settled on the Church, when, gathered in from the vague and vain objects by which they are distracted, and regarding with indifference the honors, pleasures, riches, and pageantries of the world, they find enough to engage and satisfy them in the spiritual glory of Christ's kingdom, and in that alone. 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