{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/jfb/psa130.htm","path":"bib/cmt/jfb/psa130.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/jfb/psa130.htm","text":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]\ndepths--for great distress (Psa 40:2; Psa 69:3).\nshouldest mark--or, \"take strict account\" (Job 10:14; Job 14:16), implying a confession of the existence of sin.\nwho shall stand-- (Psa 1:6). Standing is opposed to the guilty sinking down in fear and self-condemnation (Mal 3:2; Rev 6:15-16). The question implies a negative, which is thus more strongly stated.\nPardon produces filial fear and love. Judgment without the hope of pardon creates fear and dislike. The sense of forgiveness, so far from producing licentiousness, produces holiness (Jer 33:9; Eze 16:62-63; Pe1 2:16). \"There is forgiveness with thee, not that thou mayest be presumed upon, but feared.\"\nwait for the Lord--in expectation (Psa 27:14).\nwatch for, &c.--in earnestness and anxiety.\nLet Israel, &c.--that is, All are invited to seek and share divine forgiveness.\nfrom all his iniquities--or, \"punishments of them\" (Psa 40:12, &c.).","title":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments: Psalms: Psalms Chapter 130","type":"page"}