That rides on heav'n, by his name JAH, 5 Because the Lord a father is 6 God doth the solitary set In fam'lies: and from bands 70 God, what time thou didst go forth Before thy people's face; And when through the great wilderness 8 Then at God's presence shook the earth, 9 O God, thou to thine heritage 10 Thy congregation then did make Of thine own goodness for the poor, 11 The Lord himself did give the word, Great was the company of them 12 Kings of great armies foiled were, And women, who remain'd at home, 13 Though ye have lien among the pots, Whose wings with silver, and with gold 14 When there th' Almighty scatter'd kings, Like Salmon's snow 'twas white. 15 God's hill is like to Bashan hill, 16 Why do ye leap, ye mountains high? 17 God's chariots twenty thousand are : In's holy place God is, as in 18 Thou hast, O Lord most glorious, And in triumph victorious led Thou hast received gifts for men For such as did rebel; Yea, ev'n for them, that God the Lord 19 Bless'd be the Lord, who is to us Us plenteously doth load. 20 He of salvation is the God, Who is our God most strong; And unto God the Lord from death The issues do belong. A 21 But surely God shall wound the head The hairy scalp of him that still 22 God said, My people I will bring Yea, from the sea's devouring depths 23 That in the blood of enemies And of thy dogs dipp'd in the same 24 Thy goings they have seen, O God; Of my God, and my mighty King, 25 Before went singers, players next 26 Within the congregations Bless God with one accord: 27 With their prince, little Benjamin, Of Judah were, there Zabulon's 28 Thy God commands thy strength; makestrong What thou wrought'st for us, Lord. 29 For thy house at Jerusalem Kings shall thee gifts afford. 30 The spearman's host, the multitude Those calves which people have forth sent, 31 Those that be princes great shall then And Ethiopia to God Shall soon stretch out her hands. 32 O all ye kingdoms of the earth, 33 To him that rides on heav'ns of heav'ns, Lo, he sends out his voice, a voice 34 Strength unto God do ye ascribe; Is over Israel, his strength Is in the clouds most high. 35 Thou'rt from thy temple dreadful, Lord; Who gives his people strength and pow'r; PSALM LXIX. * THIS, like the xxii. xxxv. and xl. is one of the prineipal Key-psalms (if I may use the expression) to the whole book. See the general preface, and the marginal references, † which to save transcribing, I pur • Mr Barclay has justly observed, that this Psalm is wholly spoken by the Lord Jesus. This is made particularly evident by the application of the 9th verse to him, by the apostle John, see chap. ii. ver. 17. Also by the 21st verse, receiving its fulfilment, as stated by Matthew, ch. xxvii. ver. 34. and 48.This being the case, the danger of the second clause of the 4th verse, 'to render, forc'd was I,' becomes imminent. Christ was not forced to perform the work of redeeming his people. He said, 'No man taketh my life from me;' and to the Father he says, Lo, I come!' It would be quite agreeable to the Prose Psalm to say, I rendered willingly.' + Prose Psalms of the Bible. Y posely omit.-I would only here once for all observe, that there is not one objection that has been, or can possibly be brought against this method of interpreting the Psalms, and applying them to Christ, but what is undeniably contained in this Psalm; which, being all spoken in one person, and that person by the Holy Ghost declared to be Christ, is an infallible proof, that to load this interpretation with objections, is to load the Holy Ghost with lies. But to follow out this matter, would be to write a large book.-Let the reader who desires satisfaction, only compare the citations in the New Testament from this Psalm, as any margin will direct him; and, without being willingly ignorant, he cannot fail to perceive the blasphemy of supposing David to be the historian of his own experiences therein, together with the blasphemous consequences following thereupon: from which may the good Lord deliver us! Amen. See Rom. xv. 3, &c. Lo sinking in the miry clay, The depths of waters overflow'd 1 SAVE me, O God, because the floods That ev'n unto my very soul Come in the waters be. 2 I downward in deep mire do sink, I am into deep waters come, 3 I weary with my crying am, Mine eyes do fail, while for my God. |