The object of attack; the strong city of man's heart, barricaded by depravity, ignorance, prejudice, custom, etc. "Moab is my washpot. We may by faith ask for and expect that our extremity will be God's opportunity; special and memorable deliverances will be wrought out when dire calamities appear to be imminent. John Brinsley. Psalms 60:3 Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.. Ver. Something displeasing to God. Our great enquiry. Study Psalm using Charles H. Spurgeon’s Treasury of David to better understand Scripture with full outline and verse meaning. “Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.”— Psalm cxix. Parts of it may even appear faintly ridiculous to unsanctified eyes. We have painfully learned the utter impotence of armies, kings, and nations without thine help. Parts of it may even appear faintly ridiculous to unsanctified eyes. NO. When the Lord speaks the promise, we will not be slow to rejoice and glory in it. Two other great divisions of the country he mentions, evidently delighting to survey the goodly land which the Lord had given him. Verse 11. Jehovah, through Christ, is frequently said to turn to the world to see what its condition is, and always with the same result. Secondly, applying it to the kingdom of Christ. Psalm 60. Verse 7. Cause. Moab is my washpot. Do not save a drop or a drag: try not to hide one secret sorrow from your God, nor one slight grief that nestles in a corner of your spirit. "—Psalms 57:8 We ought gladly to learn what inspiration so beautifully teaches. The psalmist compares the salvation which the Lord bestows upon his people to a highly excellent banner, which serves as a signal, to one lying prostrate in his misery, to rise up, with an allusion perhaps to Nu 21:8. Verse 3. Hermann Venema. Thou hast showed thy people hard things] God will be sure to plough his own ground, whatsoever becometh of the waste; and to weed his own garden, though the rest of the world should be let alone to grow wild. There is a fire water of anguish of soul which even to the righteous makes a cup of trembling, which causes them to be exceeding sorrowful almost unto death. Believer, up and take possession of covenant mercies. All the military power of the valiant tribe was at the command of David, and he praises God for it. The great physician gives his patients potent potions to purge out their abounding and deep seated diseases. "—Psalm 65:1-2 Joseph Addison Alexander. So long as sight and reason find footing in matters, there is no place for faith and hope; the abundance of human helps puts not grace to proof, but the strength of faith is in the absence of them all. Verse 8. How we may make sinners subservient to our sanctification. So long as soldiers see their banner uplifted, they flock round it with confidence. Over Edom will I cast out my shoe. 2. Psalms 90 is entitled “A Prayer of Moses the man of God,” and it furnishes a suitable prayer for every man of God. Though thou didst for a time give up thine Israel into the hands of their enemies, thou hast now given them an assurance of thy having received them under thy protection. Hammond refers the number slain to different battles, and so avoids the difficulty. Study Psalm 59 using Charles H. Spurgeon’s Treasury of David to better understand Scripture with full outline and verse meaning. Some read it, "Thou wilt turn to us again, "and it makes but slight difference which way we take it, for a true hearted prayer brings a blessing so soon that it is no presumption to consider it already obtained. Verse 3. Verse 2. The Lord’s Control over the Nations (60:6-8). He who proved to us our need of him by showing us what poor creatures we are without him, will now reveal the glory of his help by conducting great enterprises to a noble issue. The Lord has called back to himself his servants, and commissioned them for his service, presenting them with a standard to be used in his wars. Augustus F. Tholuck. Verse 3. Psalms 90:1. 1. The Valley of Salt. Study the bible online using commentary on Psalm 60 and more! Joseph Caryl. The like may be said of our personal religion, it is sometimes so tried, that like a house shaken by earthquake it is ready to come down with a crash, and none but the Lord himself can repair its breaches, and save us from utter destruction. Moab is My Washpot "Moab is my washpot. God with us is better than strong battalions; God displeased is more terrible than all the Edomites that ever marched into the valley of salt, or all the devils that ever opposed the church. EXCELSIOR is well enough as a cry, but we must look to the highest of all for guidance.   If the preceding views are correct, we may rest in the result, that the present Sâkût represents the name and site of the ancient Succoth...We passed obliquely along the northern slope of the same broad swell, where the ground was covered only by a thick crop of thistles. Shushaneduth. Israel might well come forth boldly, for a sacred standard was borne aloft before them. 5. Verse 6. 1Ch 19:12. John Calvin. Gilead is mine and Manasseh is mine. A Clear Conscience Verse 9. God will bow to the accomplishment of his purposes all the valour of men; the church may cry, "the prowess of armies is mine, " God will overrule all their achievements for the progress of his cause. ... (Spurgeon) ii. When he fought Aram Naharaim[ c] and Aram Zobah,[ d] and when Joab returned and struck down twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt. More than this, however, may have been intended—nay, we feel sure was intended by the … In returning from which service Joab found his brother Abishai engaged in the valley of salt against eighteen thousand Edomites or Syrians (all one), whose valour the Almighty looked on, as he attributes the whole slaughter to him, because first attempting it. Be so subdued as to rejoice in my victories over my other foes. A Michtam of David. Verse 1. We have met with the title of this Psalm before, in Psalms 4, 6, 54, and 55, but with this difference, that in the present case the word is in the singular number: the Psalm itself is very personal, and well adapted for the private devotion of a single individual. God will be sure to plough his own ground, whatsoever becometh of the waste; and to weed his own garden, though the rest of the world should be let alone to grow wild. His were the politics of piety, which after all are the wisest and most profound. Life is mine, death is mine, for Christ is mine. (2 Samuel 5.) The psalmist claims that they were still the Lord's own people, though in the first verse he had said, "thou hast cast us off." Whole Psalm. Ephraim also is the strength of mine head. The combined Aramean tribes sought to overcome Israel, but were signally defeated. Truth here answers to God's holiness (Ps 60:6). Because of the truth. Click the title of a sermon to view or save the PDF. If the Lord turn to us, what care we for Aramnaharaim or Aramzobah, or death, or hell? Magna est veritas et praevalebit. NO. Yes, the chastising God is our only hope. Thou hast given us by the recent victory, after our prostrate condition, a banner of triumph to lift up (so the Hebrew), because of thy faithfulness to thy promise. Read Psalm 60 commentary using The Treasury of David. Golden secrets are to be told on the house tops; these things were not done in a corner and ought not to be buried in silence. That thy beloved may be delivered. It is strong language, meaning that God had seemed to treat them as if they were loathsome of offensive to him. Let not our adversaries triumph over our breaches. Subsequently to these events the whole land was in a very disturbed and agitated condition, arising out of the contentions between the partisans of Saul's family, and those who were attached to David. By him it is again let to the different villages. Aforetime thy face was towards thy people, be pleased to look on us again with thy favour and grace.        Upon Zion there was erected an altar dedicated to God for the offering of sacrifices. Of Shechem and the Valley of Succoth, or booths, so called from Jacob's making booths, and feeding his cattle there. As a house in time of earthquake is shaken, and the walls begin to crack, and gape with threatening fissures, so was it with the kingdom. We know no lawgiver, but the King who came out of Judah. We were here on the edge of the higher portion of the Ghôr, where low ridges and swells project out from the foot of the western mountains, and form a rolling plain or plateau, which is well watered, arable and very extensively cultivated for wheat. Excerpt from Spurgeon's Introduction to Psalm 119 [Psalm 119] is like the celestial city which lies four-square, and the height and the breadth of it are equal. Thomas Wilcocks. The grapes of the vineyard of sin produce a wine which fills the most hardened with anguish when justice compels them to quaff the cup. Psalm 108:1-5 is very similar to Psalm 57:7-11, and Psalm 108:6-13 is almost identical to Psalm 60:5-12. William Struther. Who will lead me into Edom? Moab is my washpot. Verse 12. Verse 8. When Joab returned. Spurgeon's wife said that if Spurgeon had never written any other work, this would have been a permanent literary memorial. By these are meant Samaria; and David's dividing or meting them out, is a phrase to express his dominion over them, in being part of the regal power to distribute his province into cities and regions, and place judges and magistrates over them. The greater of course includes the less. (b) Scattered. but if he withdraw his presence we tremble at the fall of a leaf. The English comedian, Stephen Fry, entitled his autobiography, 'Moab is my Washpot' (v8 ), presumably because he found the words quaint or humorous. [Psalm 60:8] Charles Spurgeon: Holiness [05] All the Day Long - “Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long. So far gone was Israel, that only God's interposition could preserve it from utter destruction. No heights of grace are too elevated for us, the Lord being our leader, but we must beware of high things attempted in self reliance. Thou hast broken it. From without, by open persecution; from within, by intestine and homebred divisions. The whole tract north of Wady Mâlih was said to be farmed from the government by one of the Sheiks of the Jenâr family, who live at Jeba and in its neighbourhood. Forgive the sin and smile once more. David having received this word stands assured, that as Shechem and Succoth, Gilead and Manasseh, Ephraim and Judah would willingly submit to him and yield obedience; so, also, that Moab, Edom, and Philistia, who were his professed enemies, should be subdued to him. Philistia, triumph thou because of me. John Brinsley (1600-1665), in "The Healing of Israel's Breaches.". To these the addition of Gilead (which contained the whole region of Bashan, etc., on the other side of Jordan), and then the mention of Manasseh and Ephraim, are designed, as by so many parts, to denote the kingdom of Israel, or the ten tribes; and their being his, and the strength of his head, notes him to be the Lord over them, and to make use of their strength in his wars, for the defending or enlarging his dominions. "Intoxicating wine." Thou hast showed thy people hard things. Thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment. "—Psalm 60:8 2. So utterly hopeless is the cause of hell when the Lord comes forth to the battle, that even the weakest daughter of Zion may shake her head at the enemy, and laugh him to scorn. But the apposition is capable of being explained in another way, for the second noun may in fact be a predicate further defining the first: "Thou hast given us wine to drink which is (not wine, but) bewilderment." To all the claims of Rome, Or Oxford, or the councils of men, we pay no attention; we are free from all other ecclesiastical rule, but that of Christ: but we yield joyful obedience to him: Judah is my lawgiver. Whoever might be the secondary agent of these disasters, he beholds the Lord's hand as the prime moving cause, and pleads with the Lord concerning the matter. Verse 4. Of both these the church of God in all ages hath had sufficient experience. 4. The position of this mountain at the south end of the sea, enables us also to ascertain the place of The Valley of Salt mentioned in Scripture, where the Hebrews under David, and again under Amaziah, gained decisive victories over Edom. That is, by Samuel he hath promised, as he is an holy God, and true of his word, that I should be king of all Israel, and now he hath performed it. “Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. But this arises from the shallowness of the reader's own mind. ACCORDING to the judgment of Calvin, and some of the ablest commentators, there is a kind of pettishness in this verse. Verse 7. For teaching. When the Jews say Psalm 60 in their *synagogues they always say the words at the top also. But the people must "not meddle with Mount Seir; for God would not give them thereof so much as a foot's breadth; "yet ever the place whereon the soles of their feet should tread, from the wilderness of Lebanon and from the river Euphrates unto the utmost sea, should be theirs. 1. "Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon." There are seven stanzas; twice three two line stanzas, having one of three lines in the middle, which forms the clasp or spangle of the septiad, a circumstance which is strikingly appropriate to the fact that the psalm is called "the Old Testament Paternoster" in some of the old expositors. Before the days of Saul, Israel had been brought very low; during his government it had suffered from internal strife, and his reign was closed by an overwhelming disaster at Gibeon. Selah. Of the Philistines he says, Over Philistia it is mine to boast; for so I would translate, and not, as is usual, Philistia, triumph thou over me, which does not yield a consistent meaning. They are my inheritance, and shall be my people, my subjects. The goodly land had been secured to the tribes by the promise made to Abraham, and that divine grant was an abundantly sufficient warrant for the belief that Israel's arms would be successful in battle. “When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.” — Psalm xxxii. But still thy banner we have displayed, Astonishing evils bring with them astonishing results. For the truth's sake, and because the true God is on our side, let us in these modern days of warfare emulate the warriors of Israel, and unfurl our banners to the breeze with confident joy. Edward Robinson's "Biblical Researches in Palestine, "1867. A. R. Faussett. Joseph Caryl. In our version it is a prayer; in the Septuagint an expression of faith—"Thou wilt return.". The truth of God was involved in the triumph of David's armies, he had promised them victory; and so in the proclamation of the gospel we need feel no hesitancy, for as surely as God is true he will give success to his own word. The bravest men are usually intrusted with the banner, and it is certain that those who fear God must have less fear of man than any others. Title. Whole Psalm. J. J. Stewart Perowne. Verse 6. Verse 2. It is evident of what value and importance this promise was, and particularly the remembrance of it at this time. And smote of Edom in the valley of salt twelve thousand. Lily of the Testimony may refer to an instrument or to a tune. The discrepancy may be explained by supposing that the title contains the numbers slain by one division of the army, or that the twelve thousand were slain in the battle, and the residue in the flight. TITLE.—A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. Moreover, the frequent use of this phrase meeting us very often in the book of God, makes this to be the meaning of the words, as clear as the day. (second clause). We must look to the strong for strength as much at the close of a campaign as at its beginning. The chief and principal places where the seditious party had their residence and abode, were those which the psalmist mentions in the sixth and seventh verses, namely, Shechem, a city in the tribe of Ephraim; Succoth, a city in the tribe of Gad; Gilead and Manasseh, the utmost borders of the land of Canaan beyond Jordan. I will divide Shechem. Set to “Lily of the Testimony.”. "You do not appear to be in your right senses, who make a washpot of me in the presence of many men." Remember that the words before verse 1 are also part of the psalm. 2979 A SERMON PUBLISHED ON THURSDAY, JULY 29TH, 1905, DELIVERED BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. There is not a grain of vain glory in it, but yet her holy boastings none can hinder. To be sung to the tune “Lily of the Testimony.” Thou hast showed thy people hard things. God hath spoken in his holiness. He, the Lord's David, pleads for the rest of the beloved, beloved and accepted in him the Chief Beloved; he seeks salvation as though it were for himself, but his eye is ever upon all those who are one with him in the Father's love. They pray that this may be done with the utmost speed, because there was a danger in delay, for the kingdom was already pressed down with a heavy calamity, and on the brink of ruin, which is signified by the word hjm whose origin is in a very strong and tremulous inclination to one side, properly from the application of a lever, and is applied to those who are leaning so far to one side that they are just on the point of falling; figuratively, therefore, it expresses a most perilous condition, in which one is on the edge of destruction. William S. Plumer. God hath spoken the word, saith he, therefore is shall be done, yea, it is done; and therefore David cried, All's mine, Gilead in mine, Manasseh is mine, Moab and Edom are mine, as soon as God had spoken the word. In 1854, just four years after his conversion, Spurgeon, then only 20, became pastor of London's famed New Park Street Church (formerly pastored by …

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