{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/jfb/psa066.htm","path":"bib/cmt/jfb/psa066.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/jfb/psa066.htm","text":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]\nMake . . . noise--or, \"Shout.\"\nhis name--as in Psa 29:2.\nmake his praise glorious--literally, \"place honor, His praise,\" or, \"as to His praise\"; that is, let His praise be such as will glorify Him, or, be honorable to Him.\nA specimen of the praise.\nHow terrible--(Compare Psa 65:8).\nsubmit--(Compare Margin), show a forced subjection (Psa 18:44), produced by terror.\nThe terrible works illustrated in Israel's history (Exo 14:21). By this example let rebels be admonished.\nbehold the nations--watch their conduct.\nHere is, perhaps, cited a case of recent deliverance.\nholdeth . . . in life--literally, \"putteth our soul in life\"; that is, out of danger (Psa 30:3; Psa 49:15).\nto be moved--(Compare Psa 10:6; Psa 55:22).\nOut of severe trials, God had brought them to safety (compare Isa 48:10; Pe1 1:7).\naffliction--literally, \"pressure,\" or, as in Psa 55:3, \"oppression,\" which, laid on the\nloins--the seat of strength (Deu 33:11), enfeebles the frame.\nmen to ride over our heads--made us to pass.\nthrough fire, &c.--figures describing prostration and critical dangers (compare Isa 43:2; Eze 36:12).\nwealthy--literally, \"overflowing,\" or, \"irrigated,\" and hence fertile.\nThese full and varied offerings constitute the payment of vows (Lev 22:18-23).\nI will offer--literally, \"make to ascend,\" alluding to the smoke of burnt offering, which explains the use of \"incense.\"\nincense--elsewhere always denoting the fumes of aromatics.\nWith these he unites his public thanks, inviting those who fear God (Psa 60:4; Psa 61:5, His true worshippers) to hear. He vindicates his sincerity, inasmuch as God would not hear hypocrites, but had heard him.\nhe was extolled with my tongue--literally, \"exaltation (was) under my tongue,\" as a place of deposit, whence it proceeded; that is, honoring God was habitual.\nIf I regard iniquity in my heart--literally, \"see iniquity with pleasure.\"","title":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments: Psalms: Psalms Chapter 66","type":"page"}