3/16 PSALM 71:1-72:20 71:1 In You, O Jehovah, do I take refuge; Never let me be put to shame. 71:2 In Your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; Incline Your ear to me and save me. 71:3 Be to me a rock of habitation for me to come to continually. You have given command to save me, For You are my rock and my fortress. 71:4 My God, rescue me from the hand of the wicked, From the hand of the unjust and cruel; 71:5 For You are my hope, O Lord Jehovah, My trust from my youth. 71:6 On You I have been sustained since birth; It was You who took from my mothers womb; My praise is continually of You. 71:7 I am like a wonder to many, But You are my strong refuge. 71:8 My mouth is filled with Your praise, With Your glory, all day long. 71:9 Do not cast me off in the time of old age; When my strength fails, do not forsake me. 71:10 For my enemies speak concerning me, And those who watch for my soul take counsel together, 71:11 Saying, God has forsaken him; Pursue and lay hold of him, for there is no one to deliver him. 71:12 O God, do not be far away from me; My God, hasten to help me. 71:13 May those who are the adversaries to my soul Be put to shame and consumed; May those who seek my misfortune Wrap themselves in reproach and humiliation. 71:14 But I will hope continually And will add yet more to all Your praise. 71:15 My mouth will recount Your righteousness, Your salvation, all day long; For I do not know its full numbers. 71:16 I will come with the proof of the mighty acts of the Lord Jehovah; I will remind men of Your righteousness, Yours alone. 71:17 O God, You have taught me from my youth; And until now I have declared Your wondrous deeds. 71:18 So even into my old age and greyheadedness, O God, do not forsake me, Until I have declared Your strength Unto the next generation, Your might unto everyone who is to come. 71:19 And Your righteousness, O God, is so high, You who have done great things. O God, who is like You? 71:20 You who have shown me Many great troubles Will revive me again And bring me up again From the depths of the earth. 71:21 You will increase my greatness And will turn and comfort me. 71:22 I will also praise You with the harp, I will praise Your faithfulness, my God; I will sing psalms to You with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel. 71:23 My lips will give a ringing shout When I sing psalms to You, And my soul, which You have redeemed. 71:24 My tongue also will declare Your righteousness all day long; For they are put to shame, for they are confounded, They who seek my misfortune. 72:1 O God, give Your judgments to the king, And Your righteousness to the son of the king. 72:2 He will judge Your people in righteousness, And Your poor with justice. 72:3 The mountains will bear peace to the people, And the hills, in righteousness. 72:4 He will judge the poor of the people; He will save the children of the needy And crush the oppressor. 72:5 They will fear You as long as the sun endures And as long as the moon endures Throughout the generations. 72:6 He will drop like rain upon mown grass, Like abundant showers dripping on the earth. 72:7 In His days the righteous will flourish, And there will be an abundance of peace Until the moon is no more. 72:8 And He will have dominion from sea to sea And from the River unto the ends of the earth. 72:9 The desert dwellers will bow down before Him, And His enemies will lick the dust. 72:10 The kings of Tarshish and of the coastlands Will pay tribute; The kings of Sheba and Seba Will present gifts. 72:11 And all the kings will bow down before Him; All the nations will serve Him. 72:12 For He will deliver the needy man when he cries, And the poor man who has no one to help him. 72:13 He will have pity on the weak and needy, And the souls of the needy He will save. 72:14 From oppression and violence He will redeem their soul, And their blood will be precious in His sight. 72:15 So He shall live and to Him shall be given The gold of Sheba; And prayer shall be made continually for Him; He shall be blessed all the day long. 72:16 There will be an abundance of grain on the earth, Even at the tops of the mountains. Its fruit will wave like the forests of Lebanon, And those of the city will blossom like the foliage of the earth. 72:17 His name will be forever; As long as the sun endures, His name will spread; And men will be blessed in Him; All the nations will call Him blessed. 72:18 Blessed be Jehovah God, the God of Israel, Who alone does wondrous deeds; 72:19 And blessed be His glorious name forever; And may His glory fill the whole earth. Amen and Amen. 72:20 The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended. FOOTNOTES: Psalms 71 Notes 8,1)glory Or, honor, majesty. 20,1)me Others read, us (three times). 22,1)faithfulness Or, truth. Psalms 72 Notes 1,1)king In this psalm the reigning Christ is typified by the reigning Solomon (see superscription), the son of David (Matt. 1:1; 22:42), in his prosperous and flourishing time (1 Kings9— 10). The reign of Christ typified by the reign of Solomon will be in the millennium in the age of restoration (Matt. 19:28; Rev. 20:4, 6). 2,1a)righteousness Isa. 11:4 The reigning of Christ will be in righteousness and justice (see note 14-1 in Psa.89) and will issue in peace (vv. 3, 7; cf. Isa. 32:17; Heb. 12:11). 6,1)drop In His second coming Christ will gain the earth not mainly by exercising His righteous judgment but by coming like showers to water the people of the earth. He will have mercy on the earth and will come back graciously like showers of rain to satisfy the thirsty ones (cf. Rev. 22:17). In that day all the nations will be rained on by Christ and will be happy under His dominion. 8,1b)River Exo. 23:31; 1 Kings 4:21, 24 I.e., the Euphrates. 10,1)coastlands I.e., the islands and shores of the Mediterranean Sea. 18,1a)Blessed vv. 18-19: Psa. 41:13; 106:48 Psalm 41:13 concludes Book One of the Psalms, and vv. 18-19 of this psalm conclude Book Two. The two are similar, but the conclusion in this psalm is improved by the mentioning of God’s glorious name and the filling of the whole earth with His glory because of the gaining of the earth through the enjoyment of God in His house and His city (see note 29-1 in Psa.68). https://app.box/s/g1ii63o4nda19ys8rvs2
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 21:00:00 +0000
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