—William Swan Plumer. Let’s wrap up our study of this psalm with three important conclusions. Prayer of the dying thief turned into a song. God hath preserved to himself the power of miracles, as his prerogative: for the devil does no miracles; the devil and his instruments do but hasten nature or hinder nature, antedate nature or postdate nature, bring things sooner to pass or retard them; and however they pretend to oppose nature, yet still it is but upon nature and by natural means that they work. But, 3. How truly, then, may we exclaim, "His mercy endureth for ever!" The multiplied redemptions of the Christian life, and their inexhaustible spring. But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea. Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og the king of Bashan. O give thanks unto the God of heaven. To him that stretched out the earth above the waters. —William Gurnall. 23. Who remembered us. There have been many lengthy works written on this Psalm; one of them is by Thomas Manton, a Puritan preacher and writer, who wrote a three-volume work on Psalm 119. David only uses this title here and in Psalm eighteen. His greatness and his goodness together make us magnify his name. It was his terrible destiny to leave to after times the strongest exemplification of daring wickedness and mad impiety in his life, and of the vengeance of God in his death, that ever was enacted on the earth. He was valiant and powerful, so as to be both great and famous; but as he wilfully refused to give a peaceful passage to the Israelites, and fought against them in malice, there was no choice for it but to let him run into that destruction which he courted. Ver. And from this also I might enlarge the discoveries of the obligation, that his mercy endureth for ever. The phrase "God of heaven" is not found in the earlier Scriptures. The less I can know, O Lord, the more let me wonder; and the less I can satisfy myself with marvelling at thy works, the more let me adore the majesty and omnipotence of thee, that wroughtest them. 2. The only thing close is when Psalm 118:1-4 repeats, “His lovingkindness is everlasting” four times. God was alone in the wonderwork of Creation: Genesis 1:1-31. They assist us in our commerce, and in endeavouring to propagate religion among the nations, by showing us our path to every region of the earth. 9. It would then have been as fruitful a source of terror as it is now a fountain of thanksgiving. The irrepressible attribute and argument "for his mercy", etc. If one plague will not set them free there shall be ten; but free they shall all be at the appointed hour; not one Israelite shall remain under Pharaoh's power. The perpetuity of mercy in this matter. To him which divided the Red sea into parts. Let our thanks be as many as the stars, and let our lives reflect the goodness of the Lord, even as the moon reflects the light of the sun. He who brought them out of Egypt, also led them through the wilderness. Ver. Or, broken us off, pulled us away, as by violence; for they would never else have loosed us. | 13,661 views. Ver 4. Who alone doeth great wonders. … To the Israelites as they sung this song their one thought would be of the rescue of their fathers from fierce oppressor. The recollection of his victory survived in a savage war song, which passed into a kind of proverb in after times: —. 8. He made a road across the sea bottom, causing the divided waters to stand like walls on either side. In both he describes the dealings of God both with the righteous and the wicked, and it is most fit that at the very outset he should take his place with the servants of the Lord. (See De 32:12, Psalms 72:18, etc.) Ver. —B.S., in "The Christian Treasury", 1865. It is wise, prudent mercy; not rashly given forth; and it is the mercy of him whose love has filled that heaven with bliss. O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good — “We are called upon to praise Jehovah, first for his own essential attributes; then for the exertion of those attributes in his works. Whole Psalm. Psalms 136:3 - Give thanks to the Lord of lords, For His lovingkindness is everlasting. Psalms 136:17. Among them, however, as might be expected at that era, were not a few philosophers of the Voltaire Diderot school. And made Israel to pass through the midst of it. The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy endureth for ever. Ver. —Franz Delitzsch. In both he describes the dealings of God both with the righteous and the wicked, and it is most fit that at the very outset he should take his place with the servants of the Lord. Whither shall saints fear to follow her? If they who have sinned need mercy for ever, they must exist for ever; and their guilt must be for ever. —Freneh and Skinner, 1842. Give up all that is miraculous in true religion and there is nothing left of power sufficient to move any heart to worship or adore; and without worship there is no piety. For there is gone out a fire from Heshbon. The gulf in which he perished is named Bahr Kolzoum, "the sea of destruction", to this day. 16. What a multitude of mercies are comprehended in the conduct of such an enormous host through a region wherein there was no provision even for single travellers; yet the Lord by his infinite power and wisdom conducted a whole nation for forty years through a desert land, and their feet did not swell, neither did their garments wax old in all the journey. By his strength he sets fast the mountains and consolidates the land upon which we sojourn. 15. In our case the redemption which is in Christ Jesus is an eminent reason for giving thanks unto the Lord. O give thanks unto the God of gods. 1. "For his mercy endureth for ever." Such an emigration as this the world never saw. Thus God calleth them all his "firstborn": Exodus 4:22. —Matthew Pool. Thus they are tokens and pledges of undying grace to men; and we may sing with our Scotch friends—, Ver. 1. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. To him who alone doeth great wonders: for his mercy endureth for ever. Since it requires me to be an atheist that I may logically reject miracles, I prefer the far smaller difficulty of believing in the infinite power of God. —G. They have enabled us to measure the circumference of the globe, to ascertain the density of the materials of which it is composed, and to determine the exact position of all places upon its surface. —Augustine, in Neale and Littledale. The finally impenitent, terrible their doom, will not be witnesses against mercy; but rather this shall aggravate their misery, that they went on in defiance of mercy, and would yield themselves to him whose mercy endureth for ever. The first is, an heavy complaint of the church, unto Psa 137:1-6. He that goes into the midst of the sea asks to be drowned. Ver. God's dealings are mysterious, but they must be right, simply because they are his. Praise him for his grace to the world at large (Psalms 136:25). —John Calvin. Copyright StatementThese files are public domain.Text Courtesy of BibleSupport.com. 13. —Andrew A. Bonar. Does he "alone" do great wonders? It is a sublime and appropriate designation of the true God, expressive of his glorious elevation above the passions and perturbations of earth. Ver. —Joseph Hall. These eight Psalms are the devout Israelite's Manual of private prayer and praise. Ver. In these arrangements of the stars in reference to our globe, the Divine wisdom and goodness may be clearly perceived. And in this view also he is eminently entitled to praise and thanksgiving, in that his rule and government of the world are also eminently marked by "mercy" and "goodness": not the display of power only, but of power declared chiefly in showing mercy and pity: as again all subject to that rule are witnesses. Ver. d) For his works of creation in particular (Psalms 136:5-9). Ver. Oh the depth! a. This appears four times in Psalms 118:1-4. The Psalmist's details of mercy begin in the loftiest regions, and gradually descend from the heavens to "our low estate" (Ps 134:23); and this is an ascent, for mercy becomes greater as its objects become less worthy. What a mass of wisdom lies hidden in this one creating act! 14. To remember signifies (as the sixth degree of mercy) to help and succour, or to redeem and deliver from that which we were appointed to, from the low estate; and so it is in Galatians 2:10 : "Only they would that we should remember the poor." The Lord's people were called upon to fight against him, but it was God who won the victory. O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. Study the bible online using commentary on Psalm 136:3 and more! His fall was speedy and final, and the chosen people were so struck with it that they sung of his overthrow in their national songs. It extends its sway even over the human frame, and our health and disorders are sometimes partially dependent on its influence. Ver. We waste by giving, our drop is soon spent; but God is not wasted by bestowing, but hath the same mercy to do good to his creatures, as before. To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endureth for ever. 7. See how they prolonged the strain: and what blessed exercise this is, to take mercies to pieces and examine all the details, and have a fresh verse for each particular of God’s goodness to us. Psalm 136:16. When Antichrist raises up his hosts in the latter days, one after another—when the great, the famous, the mighty, the noble, the gigantic men, in succession assail the Church, they shall perish: "For his mercy endureth for ever." The greater things he bestows, the greater glory redounds to his Name. 7. Our title deed, a royal grant: "And gave.". Let the name be mentioned that the mercy may be the better remembered. There are no iron tracks, with bars and bolts, to hold the planets in their orbits. Whole Psalm. HE gave the people courage to follow the predestined track through the yawning abyss, which might well have terrified a veteran host. 3. Noah as well as Abel, Moses as well as Jacob, Jeremy as well as David, Paul as well as Simeon hath part in this salvation. Carry out your joyful duty: "O give thanks.". But not so; the love of God felt by a man makes the man feel as God does toward men; and as God's love is ever going forth to others, so is the heart of the man of God. For his mercy endureth for ever. Contributed by Shawn Miller on Jan 19, 2016. based on 1 rating. Broken was the power and conquered was the pride of Egypt. Ver. There are lords many, but Jehovah is the Lord of them. This … For his mercy endureth for ever, as is seen in the original upheaval and perpetual upstanding of the habitable land, so that no deluge drowns the race. Justice lingered but it struck home at last. Providential Guidance . Go to, To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use our convenient. Kings judged to be great because of the armies at their back blocked up their road. Psalm 136:1. Ver. Divided the Red Sea into parts. And Og the king of Bashan. To her let there be brought the chaplet of our praises. The light of God shone brightly on the astonished multitude. 1. And what is the reason he giveth food to all flesh? All repetitions are not vain, nor is all length in prayer to be accounted babbling. Glorious redemption! —Thomas Goodwin. Ver. In the Exodus the great power and glory of Jehovah were seen. Mercy and judgment. 3. Psalms 136:2-3. Sometimes of late years there has been manifested a disposition to recede from the defence of the supernatural in religion. The longer I live, O my God, the more do I wonder at all the works of thy hands. The lantern of the world (lucerna Mundi), as Copernicus names the sun, enthroned in the centre—according to Theon of Smyrna, the all vivifying, pulsating heart of the universe, is the primary source of light and of radiating heat, and the generator of numerous terrestrial, electromagnetic processes, and indeed of the greater part of the organic vital activity upon our planet, more especially that of the vegetable kingdom. Ver. He who causes the waters of the sea ordinarily to remain as one mass can with equal readiness divide them. God worked with great display of force, and with exceeding majesty; he stretched out his arm like a workman intent on his labour, he lifted up his hand as one who is not ashamed to be seen. 2. Personal mercies awake the sweetest song—"he remembered us." “It is one of the shortest Psalms to read, but one of the longest to learn. To remember, signifies yet more (as the fourth degree of mercy) to be well pleased with a person in such a case, to accept of a person in such a case; so the word is used in Psalms 20:3 : "The Lord remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice"; remember, that is, accept. 1-26. 4. The Egyptians are well said to have been smitten in their firstborn; because they continued in their outrageous obstinacy under the other plagues, though occasionally terrified by them, but were broken and subdued by this last plague, and submitted. 4. Its spiritual counterpart: God's august providing for our immortal nature. His three volume commentary on the Psalms, The … The wonderful in the merciful. Even to Egypt; the sharp stroke should have wrought repentance. He who had subdued the really mighty ruler of Egypt made short work of these petty sovereigns, great though they were in the esteem of neighbouring princes. Whenever we sit in the sunshine, our gratitude should be kindled. Ver. For giving faith to traverse it. 22. We find that God has built the heavens in wisdom, to declare his glory, and to show forth his handiwork. Led his people through the wilderness. Mercy. How mercy is the eternal element of that rule, and therefore he is the eternal object of praise. Glory be to his name world without end! The blood of the beasts under the law was a type of his. "He brought them forth also with silver and gold, and there was not one feeble person in all their tribes." They tend to arouse mankind to the study of astronomy, and the wonders of the firmament; they serve to confirm the deductions of chronology, to direct the navigator, and to settle the geographical position of towns and countries; they assist the astronomer in his celestial investigations, and exhibit an agreeable variety of phenomena in the scenery of the heavens. There is no reason to be given for grace but grace; there is no reason to be given for mercy but mercy: who remembered us: "for his mercy endureth for ever." 10. Ver. Ver. The former blows had missed their aim compared with the last; but that "smote Egypt." So it is here." Spurgeons's The Treasury of David". He made them to pass, by the untrodden road; he led them down into the deep and up again on the further shore in perfect order, keeping their enemies back by the thick darkness of the cloudy pillar. The Bounty Of God's Blessings. To him which smote great kings. By its nearness to the earth, and the consequent increase of its gravitating power, it produces currents in the atmosphere, which direct the course of the winds, and purify the aerial fluid from noxious exhalations; it raises the waters of the ocean, and perpetuates the regular returns of ebb and flow, by which the liquid element is preserved from filth and putrefaction. Ver. What cannot Love divine conquer for its chosen! Ver. Whole Psalm. Spurgeon said that he often carried with him a small book of God's promises ("Clarke's Precious Promises"), and he turned to specific promises to help him at needful times. And yet because Og did look more formidable than Sihon, God gave his people special encouragement in meeting him: Numbers 21:34. He is perfectly good, because infinitely good. Ver. 3. It is notable, our Lord Jesus, when there were but five barley loaves and two fishes (John 6:11), "He lift up his eyes and gave thanks." And hath redeemed us from our enemies. Ver. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. 1285: "Sihon and Og; or, Mercies in Detail.". 2. 9. A … Even to the depth of the sea mercy reaches, —there is no end to it, no obstacle in the way of it, no danger to believers in it, while Jehovah is all around. All the works of his unrivalled skill are wrought by him alone and unaided, and to him, therefore, must be undivided honour. Yes, he mingles mercy with his justice, and reigns for the benefit of his subjects. Sihon occupied the whole district between the Arnon and Jabbok, through which the approach to the Jordan lay. Thanks are the least that we can offer, and these we ought freely to give. We thank our parents, let us praise our heavenly Father; we are grateful to our benefactors, let us give thanks unto the Giver of all good. It is not only an adorning of speech, but signifies an end of that verse, matter, or Psalm, where it is found, and it is ever in the end of Psalm and verse, these four places only exempted from this rule: Psalms 55:19; 57:3; Habakkuk 3:3, 9. —Speaker's Commentary. Whole Psalm. Whole Psalm. Read Psalm 136:3 commentary using The Treasury of David. Ver. 6. Ver. 3. —David Dickson. 12. Glory be to God the faithful One. —Daniel Cresswell. But overthrew Pharaoh, etc. R. Tuck . (Psalms 136:10-15). Psalm 136 ends with a general call to praise God at all times: “Give thanks to the God of heaven. Thy church and thy saints, O Lord, "are the moon and the stars", which, by the communication of doctrine, and the splendour of example, guide our feet, while we travel on in the night that hath overtaken us, waiting for the dawn of everlasting day. Psalm 136 The scope of this psalm is the same with that of the foregoing psalm, but there is something very singular in the composition of it; for the latter half of each verse is the same, repeated throughout the psalm, "for his mercy endureth for ever,' and yet no vain repetition. His own people, his peculiar people, his chosen, loved, and favoured ones, whom he cherished as the apple of his eye, who were graven on the palms of his hands, and loved with an everlasting love, even these he led through the wilderness; and all this because "His mercy endureth for ever." Day unto day uttereth speech concerning the mercy of the Lord; every sunbeam is a mercy, for it falls on undeserving sinners who else would sit in doleful darkness, and find earth a hell. Ver. Even to redemption by the death of his Son did divine mercy stretch itself. 5, 2.) For his mercy endureth for ever. The sun to rule by day. The other is an heavy imprecation and a prophetical denunciation against the enemies of the church, unto the end of the psalm (Psa 137:7-9). When, in the time of the Emperor Constantius, S. Athanasius was assaulted by night in his church at Alexandria by Syrianus and his troops, and many were wounded and murdered, the Bishop of Alexandria sat still in his chair, and ordered the deacon to begin this Psalm, and the people answered in prompt alternation, For his mercy endureth for ever. https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/spe/psalms-136.html. 5. But shook off Pharaoh. on StudyLight.org The Lord is good. 5. —John Trapp. What good was their fame to them? on StudyLight.org He is infinitely good. God remembers that even the most faithful and ardent of his people cannot get entirely above the deceitfulness of outward appearances. But the waves of light not only exert a decomposing and combining action on the corporeal world; they not only call forth the tender germs of plants from the earth, generate the green colouring matter (chlorophyll) within the leaf, and give colour to the fragrant blossom —they not only produce myriads of reflected images of the Sun in the graceful play of the waves, as in the moving grass of the field—but the rays of celestial light, in the varied gradations of their intensity and duration, are also mysteriously connected with the inner life of man, his intellectual susceptibilities, and the melancholy or cheerful tone of his feelings. His goodness appears in creating the upper regions. heaven (Psalms 136:26). The vault seems to have been used as a burying place for slaves. Links. And hath redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy endureth for ever. These the Lord created in the beginning; and for the present age of man made or constituted them light bearers for the world. What a wonderful mixture is the Psalm of soft melancholy and fiery patriotism! Scattered as the tribes were up and down the country, and apparently held in a grasp which would never be relaxed, the Lord wrought their deliverance, and severed them from their idolatrous task masters. Ver. Reasons hereof from the word are these (for as touching testimony this Psalm shall be our security), first, from God's nature, "he is good". Thus fell Sethos the Second. Repetitions are effective in poetry, and the more so if there be some little variation in them, bringing out into fuller light some point which else had not been noticed. Men are much better than brute beasts, and there is a great difference between some men and others, though not in merit, yet as regards the privilege of the divine adoption, and the Psalmist is to be considered as reasoning from the less to the greater and enhancing the incomparably superior mercy which God shows to his own children. To him that made great lights. When the First Consul crossed the Mediterranean on his Egyptian expedition, he carried with him a cohort of savans, who ultimately did good service in many ways. 9. The birds rise betimes in the morning, and are saluting the rising sun with their sweet notes in the air. Ver. Ver. —George Horne. 15. He shook them off as if he would no longer protect them. c) For mercy enduring for ever. Ver. Because this psalm is a remembrance of Babylon, many commentators believe it was written after the return from exile. The dark background makes the figures in the foreground more prominent. Psalms 136:4. His love endures forever” (v. 26). For his mercy endureth for ever —therefore his power is put forth for the rescue of his own. —W.B.H. What could men have done without light? Verses 1-4 commence with a threefold praise to God Verses 5-9 give praise to the creator of all things Verses 10-15 tell of the deliverance from Egypt and escape through the Red sea —James Montgomery. The first clauses of Ps 136:2-3 ( God of gods and Lord of Lords ) are taken from De 10:17; Ps 136:12, first clause ( with a strong hand and stretched out arm ) from De 4:34, and De 5:15. The first clauses of Psalms 136:2-3 (God of gods and Lord of Lords) are taken from De 10:17; Psalms 136:12, first clause (with a strong hand and stretched out arm) from De 4:34, and De 5:15. For he is good. 24. He speaks of all that people as of one man, because they were united together in one body, in the worship of one and the same God. Can he stretch his goodness and mercy a little further? a) For mercy. Though he had done all those wonders for them, yet his mercy was as ready to do good to them still. It speaks of a young child, but it contains the experience of a man in Christ.” (Charles Spurgeon) A. 23-24. Whole Psalm. The sun. This exposition consisted of readings from Psalms 136, and Ephesians 1. For this we may well be thankful, for we know the superior Sovereign will rectify the abuses of the underlings who now lord it over mankind. — Ver. Salvation is no termer; grace ties not itself to times. Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endureth for ever: The note descends a little from the martial strain of trumpet, from smitten kings and the drowned chivalry of Egypt; but though it sinks, how it sweetens! Let us make this occasion a time of praise and thanksgiving: let our hearts dance at the name of our God: let our lips give expression thereto, in joyful music. Ver. All lordship is vested in the Eternal. But overthrew Pharaoh, etc. 24. 10. —Abraham Wright. 25. Who giveth food to all flesh. 2. 6. Not only the firmament, but the third heavens, too, where all is felicity, where is the throne of glory. Nothing is too high for its reach, as nothing is beneath its stoop. Unto his name let us give thanks for this further proof of his favour to the chosen ones. When the psalmist prayed this, he prayed for the fulfillment of a promise God had already made. —William De Burgh. In Isaiah 64:5, we read, "In thy mercy is continuance." 12. Og was soon ousted from his stronghold when the captain of the Lord's host led the war against him. Even thus was it in the deliverance of each one of us from the thraldom of sin; "according to the working of his mighty power which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places.". Willingly, without reluctance; with great spirit and courage, fearless of danger, and with the utmost safety, so that not one was lost in the passage; see Psalms 78:53; and thus the Lord makes his people willing to pass through afflictions, he being with them; and able to bear them, he putting underneath the everlasting arms, even when in the valley of the shadow of death. Mercy gleams in every ray of light, and it is most clearly seen in the arrangement by which it is distributed with order and regularity from the sun and moon. —Thomas Wilcocks. 23. Who remembered us in our low estate. Though our provision be never so homely and slender, yet God's grace and mercy must be acknowledged. It is a very sweet truth which is enunciated in this verse, and one which I think we need very much to realize. He was of the race of the giants, but he was routed like a pygmy when he entered the lists with Israel's God. Jehovah had vanquished the enemy. The sun to rule by day. 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