{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/jfb/psa060.htm","path":"bib/cmt/jfb/psa060.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/jfb/psa060.htm","text":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]\nallude to disasters.\ncast . . . off--in scorn (Psa 43:2; Psa 44:9).\nscattered--broken our strength (compare Sa2 5:20).\nOh, turn thyself--or, \"restore to us\" (prosperity). The figures of physical, denote great civil, commotions (Psa 46:2-3).\ndrink . . . wine of astonishment--literally, \"of staggering\"--that is, made us weak (compare Psa 75:8; Isa 51:17, Isa 51:22).\nYet to God's banner they will rally, and pray that, led and sustained by His power (right hand, Psa 17:7; Psa 20:6), they may be safe.\nhear me--or, \"hear us.\"\nGod hath spoken in--or, \"by.\"\nhis holiness-- (Psa 89:35; Amo 4:2), on the pledge of His attributes (Psa 22:3; Psa 30:4). Taking courage from God's promise to give them possession (Exo 23:31; Deu 11:24) (and perhaps renewed to him by special revelation), with triumphant joy he describes the conquest as already made.\nShechem, and . . . Succoth--as widely separated points, and--\nGilead . . . and Manasseh--as large districts, east and west of Jordan, represent the whole land.\ndivide . . . and mete out--means to have entire control over.\nEphraim--denotes the military (Deu 33:17); and--\nJudah--(the lawgiver, Gen 49:10), the civil power. Foreign nations are then presented as subdued.\nMoab--is a my washpot--the most ordinary vessel.\nover--or, \"at\"\nEdom--(as a slave) he casts his shoe.\nPhilistia, triumph, &c.--or, rather, \"shout.\"\nfor me--acknowledges subjection (compare Psa 108:9, \"over Philistia will I triumph\").\nHe feels assured that, though once angry, God is now ready to favor His people.\nwho will lead me-- or, who has led me, as if the work were now begun.\nWilt not thou?--or, \"Is it not Thou?\"\nHence he closes with a prayer for success, and an assurance of a hearing.","title":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments: Psalms: Psalms Chapter 60","type":"page"}