1; The psalmist exhorts the redeemed, in praising God, to
observe his manifold providence,
4; over travellers;
10; over captives;
17; over sick men;
23; over seamen;
33; and in divers varieties of life.
* A.M. 3468. B.C. 536. (Title.)
The author of this Psalm is unknown; but it was evidently
written to commemorate the return of the Jews from the
Babylonian captivity; and it may easily be perceived that it
must have been sung in alternate parts, having a double
burden, or two intercalary verses often recurring. Bp. Lowth
considers it as written "after the method of the ancient
pastorals, where, be the subject of their verse what it will,
each swain endeavours to excel the other; and one may perceive
their thoughts and expressions gradually to rise upon each
other." "No doubt," he adds, "the composition of this Psalm
is admirable throughout; and the descriptive part of it adds
at least its share of beauty to the whole; but what is most to
be admired is its conciseness, and withal the expressiveness
of the diction, which strikes the imagination with illimitable
elegance. The weary and bewildered traveller--the miserable
captive in the dungeon--the sick and dying man--the seaman
foundering in a storm--are described in so affecting a manner,
that they far exceed any thing of the kind, though never so
much laboured."
* Give.
106:1 118:1 136:1-26 1Ch 16:34,41 2Ch 5:13 7:3,6 20:21
* good.
119:68 Mt 19:17
* for his mercy.
103:17 Lu 1:50
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