Even to redemption by the death of his Son did divine mercy stretch itself. —Thomas Dick (1774-1857), in "Celestial Scenery. It was the first engagement in which they were confronted with the future enemies of their nation. For this he deserves the constant gratitude of his people. 25. Who giveth food to all flesh. He was valiant and powerful, so as to be both great and famous; but as he wilfully refused to give a peaceful passage to the Israelites, and fought against them in malice, there was no choice for it but to let him run into that destruction which he courted. Ver. Verses 1-4 commence with a threefold praise to God Verses 5-9 give praise to the creator of all things Verses 10-15 tell of the deliverance from Egypt and escape through the Red sea Probably, Psalm 136 was designed for public worship. The waters of the great deep (Genesis 7:11) are meant; above which the crust of the earth is outspread. e) For his works of Providence (Psalms 136:10-26). And slew famous kings. When the psalmist prayed this, he prayed for the fulfillment of a promise God had already made. God's gracious purpose the Flood drowned not, the smoke of Sinai smothered not, the Captivity ended not, the ends of the world (Saint Paul calls them so) determined not. —David Clarkson, 1622-1686. 15. Ver. Margin, as in Hebrew, shaked off. He who can throw a stone in one direction can with the same force throw it another way: the Lord can do precisely what he wills, and he wills to do anything which is ten the deliverance of his people. In our case the redemption which is in Christ Jesus is an eminent reason for giving thanks unto the Lord. For his mercy endureth for ever. O give thanks unto the God of gods. Why, saith he, "in his mercies is continuance, and we shall be saved." We have heard of the glory of the world's creation, we are now to praise the Lord for the creation of his favoured nation by their Exodus from Egypt. Ant. What mercy is seen in the lamps of heaven gladdening our landscape at night! O give thanks unto the God of heaven. for his mercy endureth for ever. 6. May we have faith enough to enter into the full possession of it. For his mercy endureth for ever. Their influences are placid and gentle. 24. God leads his people while in the wilderness. but hast thou sinned again? There are no less than four notes over this. Ver. Though he had done all those wonders for them, yet his mercy was as ready to do good to them still. Ver. —"Speaker's Commentary.". For his mercy endureth for ever. So that, in this nocturnal luminary, as in all the other arrangements of nature, we behold a display of the paternal care and beneficence of that Almighty Being who ordained "the moon and the stars to rule by night", as an evidence of his superabundant goodness, and of "his mercy which endureth for ever." We enjoy all the advantages to which we have alluded as much as if the stars had been created solely for the use of our world, while, at the same time, they serve to diversify the nocturnal sky of other planets, and to diffuse their light and influence over ten thousands of other worlds with which they are more immediately connected, so that, in this respect, as well as in every other, the Almighty produces the most sublime and diversified effects by means the most simple and economical, and renders every part of the universe subservient to another, and to the good of the whole. In the stroke that filled Egypt with anguish there was conspicuous mercy. But the moon, like a kindly visitant, returns at short intervals, in the absence of the sun, and cheers them with her beams for days and weeks together. This Psalm consists of a greeting, Ps 109:1-2, and the reply thereto. Not only the firmament, but the third heavens, too, where all is felicity, where is the throne of glory. 3. That is ever the choicest note of all. 11. Ver. —Robert Harris. 25. Who giveth food to all flesh. And Og the king of Bashan. Stars. Does he "alone" do great wonders? 1. —William Swan Plumer. For Your servant David’s sake, Do not turn away the face of Your Anointed. Praise him for what he is (Psalms 136:1-3). 9. To him which divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy endureth for ever: and made Israel to pass through the midst of it: for his mercy endureth for ever: but overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his mercy endureth for ever. Ver. The moon and stars to rule by night. He led his people through the wilderness. Thus should we strike up our harps in praising God at the first appearance of a mercy. If God will but continue to be merciful to me, will a poor soul say, I have enough. Scattered as the tribes were up and down the country, and apparently held in a grasp which would never be relaxed, the Lord wrought their deliverance, and severed them from their idolatrous task masters. Ver. He carries them safely through them, so that they are not hurt by them; the waters do not overflow them, nor the flames kindle upon them; nor are any suffered to be lost: but all come safe to land. And hath redeemed us from our enemies. "Forward?" I might draw arguments from the mercy, itself, —that God remembered us...and I might draw arguments from the season, "in our low estate", and from the excellency of the duty of thanksgiving; 'tis a comely thing; it makes us like the angels, whose whole employment and liturgy is to give and live praise to God. His three volume commentary on the Psalms, The … If you do but hear when the king is on his road towards your town you raise your bells to ring him in, and stay not till he be entered the gates. The second hindrance disappears after the first. Psalm 136:1. Observe what we must give thanks for not as the Pharisee that made all his thanksgivings terminate in his own goodness—"God, I thank thee" that I am so and so—but directing them all to God's glory: "for he is good." To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endureth for ever. Love unharmed mounting immortal above the wave: "for his mercy endureth for ever.". All at once he stopped and ejaculated, "What have I done? 1. —Thomas Manton. It is a very wonderful chapter. The longer I live, O my God, the more do I wonder at all the works of thy hands. There are no iron tracks, with bars and bolts, to hold the planets in their orbits. Mercy pleaseth him. 2. 14. "Commentary on Psalms 136:4". Psalms 136:5. It signifies (as the third degree of mercy), to lay to heart, to pity and compassionate persons in such a case. 18. To him that smote Egypt in their firstborn. Verse 136. His love endures forever” (v. 26). Great also in regard of their stature and strength; for they were of the giants' race. To him that made great light: for his mercy endureth for ever. This is the Christian’s true promised land of great spiritual blessings. Praise him at the remembrance that this God is the God of . be our watchword as it was that of Israel of old, for mercy doth compass us about; Ver. So in spiritual things. It was an astonishing miracle of God to support so many hundreds of thousands of people in a wilderness totally deprived of all necessaries for the life of man, and that for the space of forty years. He who delivers us out of one trouble will rescue us out of another, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his grace in us. And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed. This seven volume "magnum opus", by Charles H. Spurgeon, was first published in weekly installments over a twenty-year span in the London Metropolitan Tabernacle's periodical, The Sword and the Trowel. C. H. S. —Andrew A. Bonar. They cheer the long nights of several months in the polar regions, which would otherwise be overspread with impenetrable darkness. c) For mercy enduring for ever. —George Wilson, in "Religio Chemici", 1862. Day unto day uttereth speech concerning the mercy of the Lord; every sunbeam is a mercy, for it falls on undeserving sinners who else would sit in doleful darkness, and find earth a hell. Ver. To remember, signifies yet more (as the fourth degree of mercy) to be well pleased with a person in such a case, to accept of a person in such a case; so the word is used in Psalms 20:3 : "The Lord remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice"; remember, that is, accept. He who had promised the land to the seed of Abraham also saw to it that the deed of gift did not remain a dead letter. Psalm 119 Verses 129-136 Pe Verse 129 — Exposition; Notes; KJV NKJV NLT NIV ESV CSB NASB ... C. H. Spurgeon :: Psalm 119 Verses 129-136 ← Back to C. H. Spurgeon's Bio & Resources. —Joseph Addison Alexander. Abraham from the hill seeth Sodom on fire. —John Trapp. The people knew nothing of the way, but they were led; they were a vast host, yet they were all led; there were neither roads nor tracks, but being led by unerring wisdom they never lost their way. "Thou wilt surely bring them in", said the prophet poet; and here we see the deed complete. No hour is left without rule. Ver. When he is hidden, it is night, and remains night, let our human comforters shine at their full. There have been many lengthy works written on this Psalm; one of them is by Thomas Manton, a Puritan preacher and writer, who wrote a three-volume work on Psalm 119. The servant of the Lord. Ring that silver bell again. Mark the one sole cause of his bounty—. Verses 1-4 commence with a threefold praise to God Verses 5-9 give praise to the creator of all things Verses 10-15 tell of the deliverance from Egypt and escape through the Red sea One of the highlights was when Simone Manuel, a 19-year-old Texan, upset many of the favorites and won the gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle sprint. 3. 1285: "Sihon and Og; or, Mercies in Detail.". 15. Yes, he mingles mercy with his justice, and reigns for the benefit of his subjects. Faithful love endures without end, and secures its own end. The last and greatest of the plagues struck all Egypt to the heart. God blessed Solomon and succeeding kings, for David’s sake; and he will bless us for Jesus’ sake.” (Spurgeon) b. 14. Psalms 136:3 - Give thanks to the Lord of lords, For His lovingkindness is everlasting. Ver. 15. To remember signifies (as the sixth degree of mercy) to help and succour, or to redeem and deliver from that which we were appointed to, from the low estate; and so it is in Galatians 2:10 : "Only they would that we should remember the poor." Carry out your joyful duty: "O give thanks.". To remember signifies to think upon, in opposition to forgetfulness. O give thanks unto the LORD. Spurgeons's The Treasury of David". The joy and hope of every household was struck down in one moment, and each family had its own wailing. Whatever the occasion was, this short psalm is a beautiful denial of pride, arrogance, and selfish ambition. 23. Who remembered us in our low estate. His love endures forever. 1. The division of the country by lot, and the laws by which the portions of ground were reserved to the owners and their descendants for a perpetual inheritance were fit subjects for song. 2. The Seven Wonders of the World are trifles compared with the seven-million wonders of God. The Egyptians are well said to have been smitten in their firstborn; because they continued in their outrageous obstinacy under the other plagues, though occasionally terrified by them, but were broken and subdued by this last plague, and submitted. 3. Ver. His mercy endureth for ever. 5. page 233) doth Marcion wrong, though otherwise an heretic, in blaming him for holding that Christ saved those also that believed in him before his incarnation. It is everlasting. And slew famous kings: for his mercy endureth for ever: Sihon king of the Amorites: for his mercy endureth for ever: and Og the king of Bashan: for his mercy endureth for ever: and gave their land for an heritage: for his mercy endureth for ever: even an heritage unto Israel his servant: for his mercy endureth for ever. Ver. Copyright StatementThese files are public domain.Text Courtesy of BibleSupport.com. Let us with all our powers of heart and tongue give thanks unto the holy name of Jehovah for ever and ever. Ver. The Lord who smote Pharaoh at the beginning of the wilderness march, smote Sihon and Og at the close of it. The Lord brought them out; brought them all out; brought them out at the very hour when his promise was due; brought them out despite their being mingled among the Egyptians; brought them out never to return. O give thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy endureth for ever. The same architect, the same skill, the same love! The blood of the beasts under the law was a type of his. God worked with great display of force, and with exceeding majesty; he stretched out his arm like a workman intent on his labour, he lifted up his hand as one who is not ashamed to be seen. 7. He was before Abraham, he himself saith so. Whole Psalm.—This Psalm is composed of two parts. God is originally good—good of himself. This is the sinner's principal need. Thanks be to the Lord, who has not consigned us to darkness. Sing then to his name, ye that are in the wilderness. The attributes here mentioned are those of goodness and power; the one renders him willing, and the other able, to save: and what can we desire more, but that he should continue to be so! Ver. Napoleon, for his own instruction and amusement on shipboard, encouraged disputation among these gentlemen; and on one occasion they undertook to show, and, according to their own account, did demonstrate, by infallible logic and metaphysic, that there is no God. The sun is enough alone; but when he is gone a numerous band cannot suffice to give more than a humble imitation of his radiance. AN EXPOSITION OF PSALM 139 by Charles H. Spurgeon One of the most notable of the sacred hymns. The collecting together of so immense a multitude—the arranging the order of their march—the provision of the requisite food even for a few days, must, under the circumstances, have been utterly impossible, unless a very special and overruling Providence had graciously interfered to obviate the difficulties of the case. What could men have done without light? for his mercy endureth for ever. The servant of the Lord. —Adam Clarke. 16. Who led his people. Ver. Ver. For his mercy endureth for ever. (so ran the later tradition), and devoured by thirst, like the Athenians in the Assinarus on their flight from Syracuse, were slaughtered in the bed of one of the mountain streams. "Art thou not it which cut Rahab and wounded crocodile?" It is not only mercy which gives us Christ, and salvation by Christ, and all those glorious deliverances and triumphs over the enemies of the church; but it is mercy which furnishes our tables, it is mercy that we taste with our mouths and wear at our backs. Not to Israel only does he give blessing. 25. Who giveth food to all flesh. We thought ourselves too small and too worthless for his memory to burden itself about us, yet he remembered us. Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og the king of Bashan. O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth for ever. Psalm 136:17-22: Pulpit Commentary Homiletics. 1-26. So God still strives with men. 4. Of Edward Taylor, better known as "Father Taylor", the Sailor Preacher of Boston, it is said that his prayers were more like the utterances of an Oriental, abounding in imagery, than a son of these colder western climes. Freely in space they move, ever changing, but never changed; poised and balancing; swaying and swayed; disturbing and disturbed, onward they fly, fulfilling with unerring certainty their mighty cycles. Ours was a sorry estate, —an estate of bankruptcy and mendicancy. Stars to rule by night. Ver. — Whole Psalm. All lordship is vested in the Eternal. For the Lord even to think of us is a wealth of mercy. 2011. Hence, in all ages, a moonlight scene has been regarded, by all ranks of men, with feelings of joy and sentiments of admiration. To him that made great lights. ... Charles Spurgeon. Unto his name let us give thanks for this further proof of his favour to the chosen ones. Among them, however, as might be expected at that era, were not a few philosophers of the Voltaire Diderot school. 16. 4. His favours come down on generation after generation, and to his willing, obedient people they shall flow on during eternal ages. Those Psalms were the united utterances of national devotion. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. The gulf in which he perished is named Bahr Kolzoum, "the sea of destruction", to this day. Perhaps at this point the Psalmist's eye may be supposed to see earth in its state of blessedness, after Israel is for the last time redeemed from all enemies, and become "life from the dead" to the world—when Christ reigns and dispenses the bread of life to the New Earth, as widely as he gave common food—"the feast of fat things to all nations", (Isaiah 25:6); for his mercy will not rest till this is accomplished. Do not turn away the face of Your Anointed: The singer aske… Psalms 136 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. The multiplied redemptions of the Christian life, and their inexhaustible spring. History is not about us. This … —John Calvin. Many of us enjoyed watching the Olympics in Rio De Janiero this summer. The vault seems to have been used as a burying place for slaves. God remembers that even the most faithful and ardent of his people cannot get entirely above the deceitfulness of outward appearances. The grand peculiarity of form in this Psalm...is the regular recurrence, at the close of every verse, of a burden or refrain ...It has been a favourite idea with interpreters that such repetitions necessarily imply alternate or responsive choirs. Facit mirabilia magna solus, says David here. Whole Psalm.—This Psalm is composed of two parts. Whole Psalm. What equal mercy in all the influences of the moon upon the tides, those life floods of the earth! And made Israel to pass through the midst of it. Psalm 136:1. Because the Lord feeds all life therefore we expect him to take special care of his own family. For his mercy endureth for ever —therefore his power is put forth for the rescue of his own. In these arrangements of the stars in reference to our globe, the Divine wisdom and goodness may be clearly perceived. 21. We are ever needing it, trying it, praying for it, receiving it: therefore let us for ever sing of it. They have enabled us to measure the circumference of the globe, to ascertain the density of the materials of which it is composed, and to determine the exact position of all places upon its surface. So Psalm 136 says, remember the victories God has given to you, and give Him thanks for them. The figure of an outstretched arm is appropriate, for we stretch out the arm when any great effort is required; so that this implies that God put forth an extraordinary and not a common or slight display of his power in redeeming his people. The entire system forms one grand complicated piece of celestial machinery; circle within circle, wheel within wheel, cycle within cycle; revolutions go swift as to be completed in a few hours; movements so slow, that their mighty periods are only counted by millions of years. 4. 23. Who remembered us. 10. Ver. For his mercy endureth for ever. What more can be desired? 1. O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good — “We are called upon to praise Jehovah, first for his own essential attributes; then for the exertion of those attributes in his works. Ver. And brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endureth for ever: with a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy endureth for ever. And the mercy that thus dealt with enemies so great, enemies so strong, one after another, endureth for ever. Men deny miracles; but, granted that there is a God, they become easy of belief. 1. The Psalmist's details of mercy begin in the loftiest regions, and gradually descend from the heavens to "our low estate" (Ps 134:23); and this is an ascent, for mercy becomes greater as its objects become less worthy. —Andrew A. Bonar. He is infinitely good. Divided the Red Sea into parts. Praise him for what he is able to do (Psalms 136:4). 24. Noah as well as Abel, Moses as well as Jacob, Jeremy as well as David, Paul as well as Simeon hath part in this salvation. "God of gods" is an Hebrew superlative, because he is far above all gods, whether they be so reputed or deputed. Praise is to be rendered to Jehovah. —John Morison. "For his mercy endureth for ever." Ver. For his mercy endureth for ever. Whole Psalm. If there be powers in heaven or on earth worthy of the name of gods he is the God of them; from him their dominion comes, their authority is derived from him, and their very existence is dependent upon his will. And hath redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy endureth for ever. And hath redeemed us from our enemies. Once the Israelites did not care to go out, but preferred to bear the ills they had rather than risk they knew not what; but the Lord's mercy endured that test also, and ceased not to stir up the nest till the birds were glad to take to their wings. In Isaiah 54:8, "In a little wrath I hid my face from thee, but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee." Ver. —Andrew A. Bonar. The other is an heavy imprecation and a prophetical denunciation against the enemies of the church, unto the end of the Psalm. To him who alone doeth great wonders. 2. He was of the race of the giants, but he was routed like a pygmy when he entered the lists with Israel's God. Ver. The people marched dry shod through the heart of the sea. "C.H. Can he stretch his goodness and mercy a little further? O give thanks unto the LORD. 2. Psalms 136:3 - Give thanks to the Lord of lords, For His lovingkindness is everlasting. The memory and name of Sethos the Second were infamous in Egypt. O give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy endureth for ever. For Christ, by whom it is, was slain from the beginning, —Saint John saith so. —Zachary Mudge, 1769. God's goodness is a fountain; it is never dry. The luminaries of heaven are unspeakable blessings to the children of men. —Pulpit Commentary. —Thomas Scott. Psalm 136 The scope of this psalm is the same with that of the foregoing psalm, but there is something very singular in the composition of it; for the latter half of each verse is the same, repeated throughout the psalm, "for his mercy endureth for ever,' and yet no vain repetition. … He made them to pass, by the untrodden road; he led them down into the deep and up again on the further shore in perfect order, keeping their enemies back by the thick darkness of the cloudy pillar. Mark, the Psalmist doth not only ascribe those mighty victories, those glorious instances of his love and power, to his unchangeable mercy, but he traces our daily bread to the same cause. That is the beginning of our praise, the essential goodness of God from which all the streams of mercy flow. O give thanks to the Lord of lords. Men are much better than brute beasts, and there is a great difference between some men and others, though not in merit, yet as regards the privilege of the divine adoption, and the Psalmist is to be considered as reasoning from the less to the greater and enhancing the incomparably superior mercy which God shows to his own children. And from this also I might enlarge the discoveries of the obligation, that his mercy endureth for ever. But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea. —Franz Delitzsch. —W.B.H. 2. See "Spurgeon's Sermons", No. Alone in the wonderwork of Redemption: Isaiah 63:5. Though our provision be never so homely and slender, yet God's grace and mercy must be acknowledged. When the note was “light” they did not just sing it through and have done with it, but there were choruses and repeats in their music; but the music of today is “rattle through it as fast as ever you can, and have done quickly, with it.” Our forefathers liked to linger a bit on these sweet praises of God. Ver. Read Psalm 136:23 commentary using The Treasury of David. a) For mercy. Mercy. Psalms 136:16. Herein is the glory of God set forth, as all his people see it in their own deliverance from sin. Such an emigration as this the world never saw. For his mercy endureth for ever. See how they prolonged the strain: and what blessed exercise this is, to take mercies to pieces and examine all the details, and have a fresh verse for each particular of God’s goodness to us. If the end of one mercy were not the beginning of another, we were undone. O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good — “We are called upon to praise Jehovah, first for his own essential attributes; then for the exertion of those attributes in his works. Then, I infer, that if the mercy which visits earth is from the same Jehovah who built that heaven and filled it with glory, there must be in his mercy something of the same "understanding" or "wisdom." Psalms 136 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. The queenly grace that hath the keeping of the keys: "for his mercy", etc. But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea. Ver. Ver. I see such admirable artifice in the very least and most despicable of all thy creatures, as doth every day more and more astonish my observation. The Jews called it the Great Hallel (= Praise), and it … Light is the life and soul of the universe, the noblest emblem of the power and glory of God, who, in the night season, leaves not himself without witness, but gives us some portion of that light reflected, which by day we behold flowing from its great fountain in the heart of heaven. Essentially he is goodness itself, practically all that he does is good, relatively he is good to his creatures. —George Horne. They boasted of the Colossus that strode across the sea, but what shall we say to the heavens that span not only the earth but all the universe? Ver. Our title deed, a royal grant: "And gave.". Common providence, which cares for all living things, deserves our most devout thanks. And brought out Israel from among them. Great, as those times accounted them, when every small city almost had her king. Israel his servant. Mercy is far reaching, long enduring, all encompassing. 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