Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
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Psalms
Book: Psalms
Chapter: 128
Overview:
Thankfulness for former deliverances.
(1-4) A believing
prospect of the
Destruction of the enemies of Zion.
(5-8)
1-4 The enemies of
God's people have very barbarously
endeavoured to wear out the saints of the Most High. But the
Church has been always graciously delivered.
Christ has built
his
Church upon a
Rock. And the
Lord has many ways of disabling
wicked men from doing the mischief they design against his
Church. The
Lord is righteous in not suffering
Israel to be
ruined; he has promised to preserve a people to himself.
5-8 While
God's people shall flourish as the loaded palm-tree,
or the green and fruitful
Olive, their enemies shall wither as
the
Grass upon the
House-tops, which in eastern countries are
flat, and what grows there never ripens;
So it is with the
designs of
God's enemies.
No Wise Man will pray the
Lord to
Bless these mowers or reapers. And when we remember how
Jesus
arose and reigns; how his people have been supported, like the
burning but unconsumed
Bush, we shall not fear.