Psalm 1 Notes “The Tree and The Chaf
Type: Meditation--On Themes
Structure: Strophic form*
Is where stanzas fall into well marked divisions of thought but have no relation as to length
or number of lines.
We have put headings over each one of the Stanzas.
1st Stanzas: Two Ways.
2nd Stanza: Two Results.
3rd Stanza: Two Concluded Ends
This psalm is about the godly man, and the ungodly man. The blessing in this psalm goes to the godly man; the curse is resting on the ungodly man.
Both types of lives are pretty well spelled out in this psalm.
This psalm points out the thing that occupies the time of the godly man, and its result of blessing; and the thing that occupies the time of the ungodly man, and its result of being void of this blessing.
Study this psalm, follow through with action of meditation on the word night and day then you will be blessed. Of Course this psalm will lead you to Psalm 2 and Jesus Christ, who is the cause of all blessing through God.
Psalm 2 Notes “Song Of The LORD’S Anointed”
Type: Song. Set Theme
Structure: Antistrophic—Two Parts
Noting the Type is very important as well as the Structure of the Psalm.
When you read a psalm, try to make sure you share the attitude or mood of the Psalm. If the Psalm reveals it is a Meditative type then meditate on the psalm. The psalm yesterday was of that type.
Today our psalm is a Song Type, or in better words a celebration psalm.
It has a real warning as some songs do in the Bible, (see Deut 32).
God is pointing out in this psalm He has set his King on Mt Zion and all rulers should yield to Him. Verse 9 refers to a time coming when this messiah will rule the Kings with a iron scepter, and dash them to pieces like pottery. So the warning is for them is to Kiss the Son, (subjection to his rule) lest he be angry and they be destroyed.
In Revelation 2:26-27 Christ declares the he will appoint those who remain faithful to him to share in his subjugation rule over the nations.
This psalm is one of the Messianic Psalms we find in the Book of Psalms, and it is a very important one, and is referred to a number of times in the New Testament, as an example see this in the book of Acts chapter 4.
The Christian can really celebrate in joy, praise, and song, over this wonderful news; Or as the bible calls it the “Good News.” Now all of us can find refuge in Christ, Psalm 2:12.
You cans see four voices in this psalm, Man. The Father. The Son. The Holy Spirit. Notice this in the heading over the stanzas, in your copy below.
Notice, that the heading also points out that we can divide this psalm into Two Parts,
The Nations Rebellion-Part I.
Nations choice.-Part II
Psalm 3 Notes. “The Drama of Night and Morning”
Type: Monologue-Testimony to experience of deliverance.
Structure: Antistrophic
So far in Book 1 we have covered two Psalms:
Psalm 1 was a Meditation Psalm---“The Tree and the Chaff”
Psalm 2 was a Song, a celebration--“ Song Of The Lords Anointed”
With Psalm 3 we see a start of 12 psalms, which we might consider as a unit. Psalm 3-14.
We will discover if we divide these twelve psalms in half we have 5 psalms of prayer with a special appended psalm, Psalm 8, at the end of the first five. Then we see five more prayers with an appended psalm, being Psalm 14. This makes twelve in all.
Taking this approach enables us not only to see a unity of thought, but also aides to remember these twelve psalms. So now let us look at the first five prayer psalms; Psalms 3-7.
When we look closely at these first five prayers: Psalms 3-7 we see they are definitely prayers of supplications. Prayers that are need oriented. David is calling out for answers to deep needs. We see these needs prayed about until we reach what we call the appended psalm, Psalm 8 which brings us into a different setting of prayer and revelation.
Let us remember David as the King of Israel tried to know the needs of his people and his own personal needs, this way he could better govern the people, with a heart only to please God. Since Israel had many enemies surrounding her, David had many things concerning this to bring to God in prayer. We will take look at each individual psalm and try to understand how apply this to our situations.
Psalm 3 is a psalm, or prayer for Deliverance, we title this: “The Drama Of Night And Morning.”
There are many psalms which we might call dramatic. By the word dramatic, I mean the psalm starts off telling us of the Trouble of the psalmist, but then we see the trouble is changed to Relief. We use the abbreviation D.L. (dramatic lyric) to refer to this type of psalm.
Sometimes the experience of evening and morning in the bible is also used to illustrate: trouble and relief in bible poetry. Night referring to a difficult time. Morning referring to change in experience, bringing relief, a victory and renewal of life. See Romans 5:3-5.
My wife had a favorite phrase: ”I will see you in the morning,” She was referring to the coming resurrection.
In this psalm, printed below, you will see we have structured this psalm in two parts: Trouble (night) one stanza. Relief (morning) the next stanza.
So we see in this psalm, David starts out telling us of his many foes; many are saying “God will not deliver him” verse 1-2. The humble man that he was, he resorts to God in prayer. We see the root of change in verse 4. He now can lie down in trust and sleep.
Psalm 4 Notes. “An Evening Prayer”
Type: Monologue- (Experience inspires prayer)
Structure: Strophic
Where stanzas fall into a well marked division of thought but have no relation to .
length or number of lines. (Moulton)
To Psalm 4, R.G. Moulton gives the Title: “An Evening Prayer.” To Psalm 5 he gives the Title: “A Morning Prayer.”
Go over what I said about night and morning in yesterday’s psalm. This psalm seems to take place literally in the evening.
David was under great duress because of his enemies that evening, This distress was probably because of much slander at this time against his rule, spreading false rumors against him and undermining his rule by their lies. His knew his godliness was sincere, and that he belonged to God, and that God would give him relief: 1-3, 5.
His instruction here is probably to those who were angry at him, for them to search their own hearts. Be silent, and allow God to reveal the true situation to them, and for them to respond in the right way, and to trust the Lord verses 4-6.
His own prayer to God was for the outshining of God’s face (truth) in this situation, see:
(Isa. 9:2.)
God answered his prayer and shed abundant light into his spirit, and filled him with joy 4:6-7; so much so that he was able to say, “I will lie down and sleep in peace, for you alone, O LORD, make me to dwell in safety.”
David’s exhortation here about prayer is very good, When you are angry, meditating and praying about a situation or person, on your bed or other wise, deal with your anger and let God speak to you, and then respond correctly.
May God give us confidence and rest in our evening prayers, so that we can sleep in peace. For God, gives his beloved sleep, Psalm 127:3. Have you entered the rest promised in Hebrews 3-4? It can be such a help in your whole prayer life.
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Psalm 5 Notes. “ A Morning Prayer”
Type: Monologue-experience inspires prayer
Structure; Antistrophic Interlacing
As I said yesterday when posting the “Evening Prayer” psalm; that today I would give the “Morning Prayer” psalm.
Times of prayer are honored, and desired by God. Some people say I pray all the time; that’s good, but it does not negate special times of prayer.
Let us look for a few minutes at times of prayer seen in the Bible: I will first list some scripture, then I will follow up with a few comments: Exodus 30:7-8, Daniel 6:10, Psalm 55:17, Malachi 1:11. Mark1:36, Luke 5:16.
The altar of incense in the O.T. was a picture of the prayer of the saints in the Old and New Testament, Revelation 8:3-5. Incense was offered on this altar Morning and Evening. Saints throughout the ages have offered prayer to God Morning and Evening. We find in the scriptures I listed, David in Psa. 55:17 mentions in his distress, offering prayer Morning, Noon, and Evening. Daniel’s habit was three times a day to be in prayer before God. Christ may have slipped off to pray more than three times a day. Luke 5:16.
Let is look at few verses of this morning prayer:
Psalm 5:2-3: Listen to my cry for help, my King and my God,
for to you do I pray,
In the morning O LORD, you hear my voice;
In the morning I lay my request before you and wait in expectation
Notice the faith; You hear my voice
I wait in expectation
We can lay our prayer before God, by the mercy offered us through the death of His Son, and know that God hears us, and we can wait in expectation.
In the rest of this psalm, follow the blessing to the saints, and the absence of blessing to the wicked.
Two wonderful things to mention in prayer from this psalm is: “Lead me O LORD in your righteousness because of my enemies 5:8. The other is: .“Spread your protection overs them (us) that those who love your name may rejoice in you” 5:11.
You can also find excellent Supplications in what we call the Lords Prayer.
Also note carefully I Tim 2:1-4.
The important thing dear reader is: Take time to pray in the morning, before moving into the days obligations. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. . Coming to Christ you will be built up. Notice also, Isaiah50:4-b “ He wakens Me morning by morning He awakens my ear to listens as a disciple,” “I was not disobedient.” 50:5..
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Psalm 6 Notes. “An Answer To Prayer”
Type: Monologue Experience of Deliverance. D.L.
Structure: Stanza of Strains*
The first thing to call to mind is our Titles.
After our two introduction psalms: Psa. 1-2;
Our Titles are:
1. "A Drama of Night and Morning" Psalm 3
2. “An Evening Prayer.” Psa. 4
3. “ A morning Prayer.” Psa. 5
4. “ An Answer to Prayer.” Psa. 6
All of these are experience, inspiring prayer.
We can find great direction or counsel to our prayer life through these prayers of David.
In Psalm 3 the Type was a Dramatic Lyric: D.L. Which pictures a turn from Trouble to Relief,
Today we have another Psalm showing this turn, when we reach the answer to David’s prayer in Vs. 8.
Notice in this psalm a real mourning, much tears. His enemies were hot on his trail and he seems to be in the throws of a
bad sickness, maybe very close to death Vs 1-6. David was a great man of praise, and the clarity of death after life in the
Old Testament, was no where near as clear as we see it in the New Testament, so David’s desire was to live on so he could
give praise to God and see his glory in this life. He appeals to God’s love and mercy for deliverance.
We see a dramatic turn in the psalm as he is assured of God’s answer to his prayer in verse 8. He declares not only that
God has heard him, but that his enemies will be ashamed, dismayed and turn back in sudden disgrace. Vs 9-10.
May we have many such answered prayers as we face our demonic enemies.
Go over these six psalms again. Print them out, if you keep a Psalm notebook, I believe you will find a special blessing in
this endeavor.
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Psalm 7 Notes
Notes.” A Vision of Judgment”
Type: Monologue: Experience with vision.
Structure: I. Antistrophic, Interlacing 7:1-10.
II. Antistrophic, Regular 7:11-16.
First: This Title: “A Vision Of Judgment” could be called “A prayer for Judgment,” of course this title speaks of the overall idea of judgment we find in this psalm.
Remember this Psalm 7 finishes up the first 5 prayers psalms, Psalm 3-7. Tomorrow we will look at Psalm 8, which we see is appended, or finalizes these five prayers.
After that we will look at the next five prayer Psalms 9-13, with the appended Psalm 14. Hear is what we have covered so far:
1. “ A Prayer of Relief” Psa. 3 (”The Drama of Night and Morning.”)
2. “An Evening Prayer.” Psa. 4
3. “ A morning Prayer.” Psa. 5
4. “ An Answer to Prayer.” Psa. 6
5. “ A Prayer and Vision of Judgment.” Psa.7
All of these are experience, inspiring prayer
Looking over the psalms up to the present one, we have none that centers entirely on Judgment. As our Lord Jesus said, a huge part of the Holy Spirit’s work is to convince of Sin, Righteousness, Judgment. The Book of Psalms is a book of the Holy Spirit, and these three subjects make up a very important part of this book.
In this psalm we have a real clear picture from David concerning Judgment.
The Psalmist David brings Judgment into play here because of his enemy’s pursuit, to capture and kill him, and he has no one to protect Him but God. He needs God to make a clear judgment. See first stanza.
Second, he looks at his own life Verse 3-5. Paul the apostle said: “if we judge ourselves we will not be judged.” He wants to make sure he is not the guilty party in his enemies purpose to take his life.
Third, In Verses 6-10 he ask God for his righteous judgment on the wicked, the people, and himself.
Now in 7:11-16, He speaks directly of God as Judge, who will judge the wicked.
The ending of the psalm, verse 17, We have a beautiful thanksgiving because God is Righteous. (The Judge of all the earth will do right.) See the Judgment story of Sodom Genesis 18:20-33.
Personal comment: In our country there is a very poor understanding of God being: “The Judge Of All.” David being a great righteous King understood God’s judgment well. Some Americans’ do not understand, or believe, in God being a Judge, now or in the future. But the Bible is very strong and clear concerning this. Teaching of Judgment is basic in New Testament preaching and teaching, Heb 6:2. See also Eccl 11:9-10 in the Old Testament.
We who are in Christ; Christ has taking the punishment and judgment for our sins. John 5:19-30. But their will be a judgment on deeds.
Paul in the New Testament knew some men’s sins await the great Judgment day, For some others, he knew God can, and would, bring a heavy judgment upon them even now. Acts 13:10-11.
We Christians need a fresh Vision of judgment; even as we see this expressed in this Psalm.
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Psalm 8 Notes. “Man the Viceroy of God”
Type: Meditation
Structure: Stanza Form
within an envelope.
Today we look at the appended Psalm 8 to the fives previous prayer psalms, Psa. 3-7. Here are the some of the words found in the N.I.V. Notes:
After looking at the 5 psalms 3-7, in which God is involved in dealing with human perversity; this psalm’s praise of Yahweh for his endowment of the human race with royal glory and honor serves as a striking and unexpected pleasure. You can get a tiny glimpse of this glory revealed when God made man in Genesis 1:26-28. 9:1-3.
The first thing will be to understand our Title, for this title lets us know what the subject of this psalm is all about.
The Word Viceroy: Vice, is a word that means: “In place of.” Roy, is short for “Royalty.” So the meaning or subject of this Psalm is: Man, our God has created and appointed to act in the place of God, subduing God’s enemies, and governing for Him.
This salvation will be fully manifested in the new world that God will create, but it begins now, All of this is part of the great salvation Christ has brought to man from, and for, our God. Heb. 2:3-3:1.
Envelope Psalm: See the 1st and 9th verse in Psalm 8 below. These verses act as an envelope to the text. They are matching verses. Here they speak of the marvel and praise of God for His salvation revealed in text, verses 2-8.
The wonder of this is great. Our great and mighty God, King and Maker of the Universe, appointing and enabling man; who seams so small, and so insignificant, in this great universe, a babe as it were in power an ability to act on behalf of our LORD.
Here we see Almighty God has appointed man this great task, this inspires the psalmist to say in his opening and the closing statement: “O LORD, OUR LORD, How Majestic Is Your Name In All The Earth.”
This purpose was God’s original intent in creating man, but Adam was subdued by Satan; so now Christ, the second Adam, came to put things back in order the way God originally intended. The glory of this rest on Jesus Christ, He will delivers up the kingdom to God when He returns, I Corinthians 15:24. He will come to be glorified in his saints, II Thess. 1:10.
The book of Hebrews goes into all this. The Subject is introduced in Chapter 1-2, then this subject is worked out through the rest of the book. See also Romans 8:16-39 also, concerning this purpose in Gods salvation.
So enjoy this psalm, meditate, and follow it up by reading the book of Hebrews.
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Psalm 9-10 Notes “An Acrostic Anthem Of Judgment.”
Psalm 9 and 10 was probably spoken or penned originally as one Psalm, so I will post it here as one psalm.
Type: Monologue: experience of deliverance enlarged on.
Structure: Mixed Stanza.
D.A. Dramatic Anthem depicting--Triumph-Trouble-Triumph.
This is another Judgment psalm, so reading psalms of this type will help in understanding the Judgment of God more
clearly. Psalm 7 was a Judgment psalm. The word judgment is used in Psalm 9:4 and verse 7. This word is not used in
Psalm 10, but we can see this thought, in Psalm 10:13,14, where we have man being called to account.
The next important point is that we should notice the fullness of Judgment is seen in most all of the Triumph part of
psalm 9 probably looking forward to the great judgment day.
The Triumph of both 9 and 10 are in quatrains, the Trouble parts are in sextets. This change in the structure of stanzas
is referred to as Mixed Stanza. Notice this changing of stanza is uniform in both 9 and 10: Triumph in quatrains, Trouble
in sextets. This changing of stanzas is pointing out to us the textual change in thought.
Another important thing to see is that the Acrostic letters fall away in the Trouble parts, but return in the Triumph parts.
Probably underlining how important triumph is in the life of the saint.
Psalm 9 is mostly a triumph celebration, Psalm 10 is evenly divided, four stanzas letting us see the wickedness of the wicked, therefore the need of Judgment. Then we have four stanzas of prayer, showing us God does care and will bring judgment and triumph
for his people.
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Psalm 11 Notes “A SONG OF TRUST”
Type, Song: Trust and Consecration.
Structure: Antistrophic with Stanza suspension.
Yesterday we started off with Psalm 9-10, the last six of twelve psalms we are looking at as prayer psalms: Psalm 3-14.
We saw these two prayers psalms, 9 and 10, were about bringing men to account, or judgment, for their evil deeds.
Psalms 11 today, is not exactly a prayer psalm, but it is a psalm that will help us immensely in our prayers if we call it to mind when we pray. We find David instead of running from his battles as suggested, knows who to turn to, to see victory accomplished.
We see the circumstance in this psalm could suggest the foundation was
in collapse.Vs 3.
When we see things falling apart according to our thought, instead of giving in and running from the situation, we are to turn to the one who has all power, And works all thing together for our good. Romans 8:28.
As far as structure of this psalm (suspension), Do try to see how the idea of the first verse is suspended but is returned to in verse 7. This may help you to see the continuity of the psalm, and the blessed message.
In the first line in the beginning of the psalm, David’s tells of his refuge, then we see the temptation to run from the battle. His answer is excellent. We see his answer is about the one who is really in charge, and then we see more about his refuge in verse 7.
We can really benefit if we respond the way David does here. When we are tempted to run from a hard situation, Jesus has the answer. It is usually not to run, but meet this situation head on with trust in Christ and prayer. “In the LORD I take refuge,” 11:1. “The LORD is in His holy temple; the LORD is on His heavenly throne.” 11:4.
Trials and hard situations are good for us, They test us and help make us strong. God examines the righteous through them, Psalm 11:4.
We are appointed as Paul says, not only to believe, but to suffer for His sake. In Romans 5 this Apostle says, “We rejoice in tribulation also” then he gives the reason why tribulation is good. Romans 5:3-5.
it is foolish and futile to run, for the Devil can run faster than we can. He also he has a bow with arrows see Psalm 11:2.
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Psalm 12 Notes. “The Words Of The LORD And The Lip Of Vanity”
Type: Monologue-Experience of Deliverance D.L.
Structure: Stanza
Yesterday’s psalm was a psalm of celebration. God has provided a way of escape from falling. Showing us how not to let our foundation of Christ be moved out from under us. Let us celebrate and sing of His goodness, His love, and His word.
Today we have another testimony, a monologue of David, a prayer of supplication with Gods answer. In this psalm we see how to the escape from lying lips.
Some have dwelt to long among people who are deceived, or deceive others, See Psalm 120. Some have dwelt to long with the TV on, or in theaters; or reading books that unsaved people write. Here deception is portrayed in entertaining ways. Be careful.
In this psalm we can see the first two stanzas deal with this Trouble. The trouble of
words that come from others. You will notice in the day we live in, more and more people have little qualms in the words they speak. They are not embarrassed to curse, or speak negative, or speak with a impure tongue. It seems as the scripture declares, men come from the womb speaking lies. Notice this verse “The wicked freely strut about when what is vile is honored among men”, Psa. 12:8.
In the second two stanzas we find Relief. The relief God sends our way is the pure speech of the Word of God; with the promise of deliverance or protection from the harm this wrong speech can cause in our thought process, and our actions.
Her we see the need of letting the word dwell in us richly, and meditation on scripture day and night. We Christians need to realize the power of cleansing and keeping, by the word of God. The written Word, and the living Word Jesus Christ.
Let us pray against flattering, deceitful, evil tongues. Psalm 12:3.
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Psalm 13 Notes. “Counsels Of Sorrow”
Type: Monologue: Experience inspires prayer.
Structure: Stanza
Here we have another experience of David; in his battles. This inspires David to pray.
He was really having trouble with his thoughts, and his emotions day after day.
He knew his enemies were triumphing about their victory. They were now making boast, and waiting for his total downfall.
His prayer to God goes through three points.
1st. His question to God, he is desperate. How long used 4 times:
Read this; How long. Vs. 1-2
2nd. His petition to God, he is desperate. His concern, don’t let my foes overcome me. Read please. Vs. 3-4
3rd. His trust: But I trust in your unfailing love.
My heart rejoices in your salvation.
I will sing to the LORD,
for He has been good to me.
Read please Vs. 5-6
David knew the covenant that God made with him, but the delay was a trial to him.
God has made promises to us, and a New Covenant. Let us trust Him in times of delay
Application for us:
I believe I can say in truth. Although the Christian may know the truth of his justification, and rejoice in such a beautiful fact that because of Christ he is accepted fully by God, still there will be times of sorrow, when the enemy gets, or seems to get, the upper hand in our life; usually its because we have failed God in some way. This will bring on sorrow, but sorry is meant to bring us to repentance. 2 Corinthians 7:5-13.
We must also learn, delay in our feeling of acceptance may be necessary so that we will know fully the gravity of sin and not yield to the temptation next time. We are forgiven immediately, but the joy may be slow to return.
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Our prayers must move us from our sorrow, to the word of God, where we are reminded of God’s love, and how good he has been to us. He sees our dilemma and will come to our aid. He does want us to seek His face with hope and assurance. Hebrews 4:16. Trust can, and will, turn our sorrow into dancing. Psalm 30:11-12.
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Psalm 14 Notes. “Judgment Of A Corrupt World”
Type: Monologue: Experience with vision.
Structure: Stanza Triplets.
In a small summery: We have so far seen: A Meditation, A Song, A Monologue of experience, and these 12 prayers mentioned below.
This Psalm 14 as the N.I.V. notes point out, brings a closure to the collection of prayers that begins with Psalm 3. Remember we divided these 12 prayers: Psalm 3 to Psalm 14 in half. Five psalms with Psalm 8 appended, then five more with the appended Psalm 14. A close look at the appended psalm 8 and 14 reveals a contrast between these two psalms. The 8th psalm shows the honor and glory given to man by God; where Psalm 14 shows the disgrace man has brought on himself, although there is the hope of salvation and restoration in the future, Verse 7. Study these 12 prayer psalms diligently.
The Judgment psalm today is with vision, meaning the insight of God; as he looks down on a lost world. Or as Paul shows in the Book of Romans, all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Romans 3:23.
But at the end of this psalm today we have a hope for salvation; and we know Christ Jesus has come to bring this salvation to all those who believe on Him. So we can rejoice.
But this psalm still points to the condition of those who have not come to Him to receive this Salvation. And we say with David: “Will evil doers never learn”, Psa. 14:4.
Pray with me, that the Lord of Harvest will send forth more labors to bring this salvation to mankind, for in many places the harvest is white; ready to be harvested.
Let our prayer also be “Revive Us O LORD”.
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Psalm 15 Notes. “The Consecrated Life”
Type Meditation, On spiritual truths.
Structure: Strophic: Modified envelope.
We find two meditation of the same nature in Book 1: 1st. “Who May Ascend,” Psalm 24. 2nd. Who May Dwell,” Psalm 15. David in his sincerity wanted to not only ascend, but he also wanted to live daily in Gods presence.
We can see in this psalm two New Testament truths: 1st Coming to Christ. 2nd Abiding (dwelling) in Christ..
Coming to Christ brings you into union with him. In union with Him we have come into his resurrected life, and have ascended with Him above. Eph 2:6. We must now abide in Him and seek the things that are above, I John 2:28, Col 3:1.
In our position in the heavens with Him we are blessed with all spiritual blessings, Eph 1:1-3. So we can now walk in victory.
I encourage you to read the Book of Ephesians with this outline in mind: Wealth 1-3. Walk 4-5. Warfare 6. Our Wealth enables us to walk. In our walk we must stand and fight.
To dwell with Christ day by day in a walk of victory, requires a consecrated life. Only in His power can we live this holy life of consecration; but it is for us II Cor. 6:14-7:1.
In this psalm we see, our speech, verse 2, and our actions are involved, verse 3-5. Drawing closer to Him in faith, prayer, and meditation, is a must.
One thing important in this structure: The opening lines and the closing line frame this psalm, This is what we call an envelope psalm. Notice this carefully and see how these
lines really add to the text in between.
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Psalm 16 Notes. “A Song Of Personal Consecration”
Type: Song-Trust and consecration
Structure: Antistrophic
This is what we would call a Messianic Psalm. This psalm is a special psalm quoted by Peter in the book of Acts chapter 2. Let us celebrate and sing; “Our Lord is risen,” Psalm 16:9-11.
As to structure: This psalm has an introduction and Two Stanzas; The first Stanza deals with Trust; the second deals with Preservation,
The introduction is special also, a personal prayer of refuge, and protection.
The strophe stanza starts off giving proper glory to God, and then refers to God’s wonderful grace in the saints. 1:1-2:
1st. “ I said, “You are my Yahweh
Apart from you I have no good thing.” 16:1-2
This couplet gives real honor to our personal LORD. “The I AM”. As James says “All good and perfect gifts comes down from the father of lights.” Without Him we are nothing, and we can do nothing.
The second couplet gives proper honor to the saints that God created and indwells:
2nd. “As to the saints who are in the land,
They are the glorious ones in whom is all my delight.”
The Antistrophic Stanza reveals the confidence David had in the future resurrection of his seed. (Which was Jesus Christ). See Peters sermon on the day of Pentecost-Acts 2.
Other things are revealed in this psalm. Pray for the spirit of wisdom and revelation.
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