Because I neither have, nor can have any interest in them; they are not mine, nor ever can be; therefore, I cannot take complacent delight in them. The sight shall reveal both the justice and the mercy of God; in them that perish the severity of God will be manifest, and in the believer's escape the richness of divine goodness will be apparent. The confidence of saints. Verse 1. By ROBERT HORN, Minister of God's Word...London. Elect out of the elect, they have "attained unto the first three", and shall walk with their Lord in white, for they are worthy. Verse 13. His truth shall be thy shield and buckler. "I will be with him." Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. Oh, wily should heavenly God to man have such regard! The expression is used (1) for "sea monsters, " (2) for serpents, (3) for wild beasts or birds characteristic of desolate places, and (4) it is used figuratively to represent the enemies of the Lord, and especially Pharaoh, as head and representative of the Egyptian power, and Nebuchadnezzar, the head and representative of the Chaldean monarchy. But each knows his own capability in this way. William Bridge. John Morison. Verse 7. 85-172, there is an Exposition of this Psalm. What avails a human foot among these? 2. . It is a quiet retreat from a pursuing enemy. When Satan's quiver shall be empty thou shalt remain uninjured by his craft and cruelty, yea, his broken darts shall be to thee as trophies of the truth and power of the Lord thy God. Some pious ladies were transported with zeal in so good a work, and so confident in the protection of Providence in discharge of the great duty of charity, that they went about in person distributing alms to the poor, and even visiting poor families, though sick and infected, in their very houses, appointing nurses to attend those that wanted attending, and ordering apothecaries and surgeons... giving their blessing to the poor in substantial relief to them, as well as hearty prayers for them. God will hold our head and heart when we are fainting! Their commission, large as it is, reaches no further: when you leave that, you lose your guard; but while you keep your way, angels, yea; the God of angels, will keep you. He shall cover thee with his feathers, etc.. His plumes shall make a downie bed, 9, these two verses thus, thou shalt not fear, dxkm, from consternation by night, Uxm, from the arrow flying by day, rgdm, from pestilence walking at evening, kymqm, from devastation at noon. My wandering, wavering, unstable heart, that of itself cannot keep to one course two days together is to seek its perseverance from God, and not in its own strength. It is not of all believers that the psalmist sings, but only of those who dwell in the secret place of the Most High. 1. Christopher Wordsworth. To trust in man is natural to fallen nature, to trust in God should be as natural to regenerated nature. Many evils are men subject unto, which come upon them men cannot tell how, but from such evils the Lord assures the believer he shall have no harm: Thou shalt not be afraid of the pestilence which walketh in darkness. is not his hand steady to hit the persons he aims at? "My God, "thought he, "lives everywhere, and can preserve me in town as well as in the country. And when they break out, every one is asking how they happened. The Talmud writers ascribe not only the ninety-first Psalm, but the nine ensuing, to the pen of Moses; but from a rule which will in no respect hold, that all the psalms which are without the name of an author in their respective titles are the production of the poet whose name is given in the nearest preceding title. Thus he is with them as their physician and nurse, in pain and sickness; as their strength in weakness; as their guide in difficulty; their ease in pain; and as their life in death. And all for love and nothing for reward. Verses 14-16. No! 1 [Psalm Song For the Sabbath] It is good to give thanks to Yahweh, to make music for your name, Most High, 2 to proclaim your faithful love at daybreak, and your constancy all through the night, 3 on the lyre, the ten-stringed lyre, to the murmur of the harp. When man was in honour he understood not, but was like the foolish beasts. That which one carries on their hand they are sure to keep. # sn Psalm 91. Verses 9-14. In times of great danger those who have made the Lord their refuge, and therefore have refused to use the carnal weapon, have been singularly preserved; the annals of the Quakers bear good evidence to this; yet probably the main thought is, that from the cowardly attacks of crafty malice those who walk by faith shall be protected, from cunning heresies they shall be preserved, and in sudden temptations they shall be secured from harm. Whitecross's Anecdotes. The Righteous man's Habitation in the Time of the Plague and Pestilence; being a brief Exposition of the Ninety-first Psalm: (In the Works of William Bridge (1600-1670) Tegg's Edition, Volume one pg. He says of him, "He knows my name." 4. I became weary in body and sick at heart. If God would visit me here with, how could I avoid it? I am thy shield. Psalm 91 tells of a Man, who is able to tread the lion and adder under His feet.—Undoubtedly the Tempter was right in referring this Psalm to "the Son of God" (Mt 4:6). The evils from which he is saved; the blessings in hand, and the blessings in hope; the salvation in time, and the salvation through eternity, which can and shall be enjoyed through the name of Jesus, excites feelings of the most ardent gratitude in the soul of the Christian. It is not because of perfect love that God will deliver. 8Doar vei privi cu ochii, şi vei vedea răsplătirea celor răi. But perhaps whilst you are careful in attacking these, some annoyance vexes you; and lo! This promise concerning length of life contains a gift of God by no means to be despised. God will be revealed in his love and his glory. To live in thrills of joy or woe, Faith is endangered by security, but secure in the midst of danger, as Esther's was when she said, "If I perish I perish." says he, fall into temptation and the snare (of the devil?) Verse 12. Nothing is more alarming than the assassin's plot, for he may at any moment steal in upon a man, and lay him low at a stroke; and such is the plague in the days of its power, none can promise themselves freedom from it for an hour in any place in the infected city; it enters a house men know not how, and its very breath is mortal; yet those choice souls who dwell in God shall live above fear in the most plague stricken places—they shall not be afraid of the "plagues which in the darkness walk." Verse 5. You are my God; in you I trust.” He will keep you safe from all hidden dangers and from all deadly diseases. Verse 1. Communion with God is safety. These are spiritual wickednesses, and are designated by not incongruous titles... One is an asp, another a basilisk, a third a lion, and a fourth a dragon, because each in his own invisible way variously wounds,—one by his bite, another by his look, a third by his roar or blow, and a fourth by his breath. The pestilence that walketh in darkness; the destruction that wasteth at noonday. The reason is, their enemies may kill their watch, and corrupt their guard. Such special faith is not given to all, for there are diversities in the measure of faith. It is his mind revealed to those that love him, his plans, and ways ("He made known his ways to Moses", Ps 103:7), and thoughts opened to them. We read of a stag that roamed about in the greatest security, by reason of its having a label on its neck, "Touch me not, I belong to Caesar": thus the true servants of God are always safe, even among lions, bears, serpents, fire, water, thunder, and tempests; for all creatures know and reverence the shadow of God. "I will be with him in trouble." (2) But more especially in his clipping and mutilating of it. Lion, for overt wrath; dragon for covert lurking. Verse 7. This is what God will have from us—an intense, single hearted love. Because thou hast made the Lord, etc. Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness. None abide in intimate fellowship with God unless they possess a warm affection towards God, and an intelligent trust in him; these gifts of grace are precious in Jehovah's eyes, and wherever he sees them he smiles upon them. Vulg. And can a charge so precisely and so particularly given and taken, be neglected? Everything is here—all possible ascription of honour, and glory, and power to Him "as God"—"God over all, blessed for ever, "and of love, reverence, trust, obedience, and filial relation towards him on the part of the Psalmist, as MY God ...when reflecting on the refuge and strength which the Lord has always been to him, and recalling his blessed experiences of sweet communion with God—words fail him. Verse 12. The effect upon my heart was immediate. We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; Here the idea is changed—no longer a peaceful, quiet hiding place, but a tower of defence—strong, manifest, ready to meet the attacks of all enemies, ready and able to resist them all. Lord, pardon this unbelief, and that distrust of thy providence, which made me think of running from thy hand." Verse 16. David Dickson. I will be with him in trouble, or "I am with him in trouble." May we not get some light on this expression from the custom of the Jews, keeping the name JEHOVAH sacred to their own use, regarding it as too holy even to be pronounced by them in common use and thus preserving it from being taken in vain by the heathen around? Verse 11. 3. To keep thee in all thy ways. Verse 3. Verse 14. And as the Hebrews divide the twenty-four hours of day and night into four parts, namely, evening, midnight, morning, and midday, so he understands the hours of danger to be divided accordingly: in a word, "that the man who has made God his refuge, "is always safe, day and night, at every hour, from every danger. Verse 8. Thou shalt tread upon them, not accidentally, as a man treads upon an adder or a serpent in the way; but his meaning is, thou shalt intentionally tread upon them like a conqueror, thou shalt tread upon them to testify the dominion over them, so when the Lord Jesus gave that promise (Lu 10:19) to his disciples, that they should do great things, he saith, You shall tread upon serpents; that is, you shall have power to overcome whatsoever may annoy you: serpentine power is all hurtful power, whether literal or mystical. G. R. 1. . As they are an active and expeditious people, so they are a people very faithful both to God and man; in Ps 103:20-21 they are ready to do God's will, and not only ready to fulfil God's will, but they do it: "Bless the Lord all ye his angels that excel in strength (Ps 103:20), that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word. 2. Under these four he comprehends all the evils and dangers to which man is liable. There is the dweller in the dark world, in the favoured land, in the holy city, in the outer court; but the holy of holies is the "secret place"—communion, acceptance, etc. When men have a charge they become doubly careful, and therefore the angels are represented as bidden by God himself to see to it that the elect are secured. Verse 6. The young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet. As the Apostle assures all believers (Ro 16:20), "God shall tread down Satan (that old serpent) under your feet shortly." 3. He shall call upon me, and I will answer him. (91). "I suppose, by my Lord's quitting London to avoid the plague, that his God lives in the country, and not in town." I prayed and asked some friends to pray to get me through. The shadow. And their bright squadrons round about us plant; As they are an exceeding knowing and wise people, so they are also exceeding active and expeditious, quick in despatches. Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague in London. Whether evils do come upon the believer night or day, secretly or openly, to destroy him, the Lord preserveth his child from destruction;and if stumbling blocks be laid in his child's way, he hath his instruments, his servants, his angels, prepared to keep the believer that he stumble not: He shall give his angels charge over thee; not one angel only, but all of them, or a number of them. But lo! First, indeed, because of thy own escape; secondly, on account of thy complete security; thirdly, for the sake of comparison; fourthly, because of the perfect preeminence of justice itself. Psalm 91:1-16 91 Anyone dwelling in the secret place of the Most High + Will lodge under the shadow of the Almighty. Dragon. The Hebrew root signifies to destroy, to cut off, and hence may the plague or pestilence have its name. Joseph Caryl. Thomas Watson. It is a strong tower, a paternal home, wherein we spend all our life with the best, wealthiest, and mightiest of parents. Verse 1-4, 9. With long life will I satisfy him, etc. Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. Dead, even while they live. Duncan, 1867", pp. Verse 2. Horne, in his notes on the Psalms, refers to the plague in Marseilles and the devotion of its bishop. But the love of the Christian is a delightful love, (as Mr. Baxter called it,)because there is in the Lord everything that is worthy of infinite and eternal admiration; and then there is the thought which produces a thrill of pleasure,—whatever I admire I can, in some measure, possess. Is there any thing omitted in the former part of his declaration? It is to the will to love and serve—it is to the setting the heart, that the promise is made—to the "full purpose of heart" that is set to cleave unto the Lord. In Egypt, they had seen so much of the plague, and they had been so fearfully threatened with it as a punishment for disobedience, that they could not but be in dread of its reappearance, from the incessant fatigues of their journeying. For the promise of the life to come, who can explain? So says the Lord unto the angels: My servants or children, now they are in the plague and pestilence, O my angels, I change you stir not from their houses, I charge you, stir not from such an one's bedside; it is a charge, "He shall give his angels charge." Verse 6. The person. All the time the plague lasted, which was four months, his exertions were fearless and unwearied, and what was remarkable was, that of his whole household only two died, and they were persons who had not been called to go about among the sick. The Omnipotent Lord will shield all those who dwell with him, they shall remain under his care as guests under the protection of their host. Verse 15. Now we know what this charge is, saving that Zanchy adds also the metaphor of schoolmasters, and says that we are poor rustic people, strangers; but being adopted into the household of God, he gives his most noble ministers, the angels, charge, first of our nursing and then of our education; when we are weaned, to instruct us, to admonish, to institute, to correct us, to comfort us, to defend us, to preserve us from all evil, and to provoke us to all good. "He dwells", therefore he shall "abide." But when they are in trouble, I will say to the angels, "Stand aside, I will take care of them myself." 26, operis imperf in Matt.) III. 9Pentrucă zici: ,,Domnul este locul meu de adăpost!`` şi faci din Cel Prea Înalt turnul tău de scăpare. . Certainly the man of temperance and modesty, who knows how to abound, and to suffer want. While others nobly thrive; - Pinch to zoom for Multi - touch devices and zoom tab for non Multi - touch devices. William Dawson. If any there be, he shall be brave. Verse 16. who abide in the shade of the Almighty, * 2 Say to the LORD, “My refuge and fortress,. You may expect the Lord's protection and the angels' attendance, if you be in your way, but not else. His Word, his Providence, above all, his Son, are included thus in his name, which we must know, believe in, and trust. None but the prudent. 1. (last clause). There is, else much more wretched were the race If we climb on high it may be dangerous, but if God sets us there it is glorious. Verse 15. The term is thus a general one, signifying any monstrous creature, whether of the land or of the water, and is to be set down with the one or the other, according as the context indicates. He shall look from Amana and Lebanon. Herbert also, speaking of Curroon, says, "That year his empire was so wounded with God's arrows of plague, pestilence, and famine, as this thousand years before was never so terrible." A thousand shall fall at thy side and ten thousand at thy right hand. But I say the work they stoop to for you is much beneath them, and therefore why should we not stoop to any work commanded, though it lie much beneath us? Where there is every reason and warrant for faith, we ought to place our confidence without hesitancy or wavering. The dwelling here intended by the original was only a tent, yet the frail covering would prove to be a sufficient shelter from harm of all sorts. From how many falls and bruises have they saved us! Verse 4. A little more work and weeping would have laid me low among the rest; I felt that my burden was heavier than I could bear, and I was ready to sink under it. We have the safeguard of the empire; not only the protection of the King, from which the wicked as outlaws are secluded; but also the keeping of angels, to whom he hath given a charge over us, to keep us in all h's ways. Secondly, the charge of us is given to those ministering spirits by parcels, not in gross and piecemeal, not in a lump: our members in a book, our hairs by tale and number. The providence which moved the tradesman to place those verses in his window I gratefully acknowledge, and in the remembrance of its marvellous power I adore the Lord my God. No shelter can be imagined at all comparable to the protection of Jehovah's own shadow. We say, "I have set my heart on such a thing." Kirker thinks it is called rkd, because it keeps order, and spares neither great nor small. You know what Joab said to David; "Thou art for wisdom as an angel of God." For it is natural to mortals, it is implanted in them by God the author and maker of nature, to fear whatever is hurtful and deadly, especially what visibly smites and suddenly destroys. I will deliver him, and honour him. One case may not be judged alone lest we misjudge, but instances of divine visitation will be plentiful in the memory of any attentive observer of men and things; from all these put together we may fairly draw conclusions, and unless we shut our eyes to that which is self evident, we shall soon perceive that there is after all a moral ruler over the sons of men, who sooner or later rewards the ungodly with due punishment. For what have I in heaven, and without Thee what do I desire upon earth? In this sense, before we call he will answer, and while we are get speaking he will hear, Isa 65:24. Verse 4. This is an expression which implies great nearness. "He shall deliver thee in six troubles, yea in seven there shall no evil touch thee. He hath set his love upon me. So nearly we participate of his Divine things, that we have his own guard royal to attend us. All rights reserved. (b) Personal: "over thee." Further, he doth not only, and will not only charge his angel, but his angels; not one angel charged with the safety of his people, but many angels; for their better guard and security, "He shall give his angels charge." Verse 9. A twelvemonth in an hour! Lord Craven lived in London when that sad calamity, the plague, raged. One who is in intimate, personal, secret, abiding communion with God, dwelling near the mercyseat, within the veil. We trust him as EL, the mighty God. Who, think you, shall escape his wiles? As mentioned by Father Michel Rodrigue of Canada, the Lord desires His people to pray Psalm 91 during the time they are being lead by their guardian angels to the refuges. Let another pretend to merit, let him boast that he bears the burden and heat of the day, let him say that he fasts twice on the Sabbath, let him finally glory that he is not as other men; for me it is good to cleave unto God, to place my hope in the Lord God. G. R. S. Patris Bernardi, in Psalmum 90. 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