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CHAPTER 60
David says the Lord has scattered his people—The Lord places Ephraim at the head and makes Judah his lawgiver. |
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1 O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast
ascattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to
us again.
2 Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh. 3 Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of aastonishment. 4 Thou hast given a abanner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah. |
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5 That thy abeloved may be
bdelivered; save with thy right hand, and hear me.
6 God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of aSuccoth. 7 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine heada; Judah is my alawgiverb; |
7a Ephraim also is the strength of mine
head Ephraim is the strength of mine head. Ephraim is the Lord's
or God's firstborn (Jeremiah 31:9). It is in and through the heirship descent
of Ephraim the firstborn that the covenant did come, that the promises of
the fathers did prevail, from the birth and giving of the Messiah to the
restoration of all things and the gospel being taken to the ends of the earth
in the fulfillment of the strength of the Lord and his glory. Christ is the
head and though the law comes and is given of Judah, of Ephraim comes the
head and fulfillment and strength of the Lord to the fulfilling of allthings
and issuing in of the Milennial Reign of Jesus Christ as King David of the
Second Coming.
7b Judah is my lawgiver It is but by the Jews that we have the Bible. And out of that nation associated as the nation and land of the Jews did the Biblical record come forth. It was Ezekiel who was given the command to make a record of the Jews and his companions which was compiled into the Bible at the time of the Babylonian captivity and since. Then Christ and his disciples did commence the work of the Lord at the time of the fulfillment of his mortal mission and completion fo the work of the atonement. These also were the Jews through and by whom the 'law' was given. |
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8 Moab is my washpot; over
aEdom will I cast out my shoe:
bPhilistia, triumph thou because of me.
9 Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom? 10 Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast us off? and thou, O God, which didst not go out with our armies? |
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11 Give us help from trouble: for vain
is the help of mana.
12 Through God we shall do valiantlya: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies. |
11a vain is the help of man
The arm of flesh offers no successful end. It is only a vain hope and attempt.
It alone will never find success, triumph, deliverance and salvation. Those
who trust in the arm of man, in the strength of himself, is lost. For without
God man is nothing in and of himself.
12a Through God we shall do valiantly Success, triumph, deliverance and salvation are only in and through God. Only through him shall be be able to accomplish that which we must do and with his aid we may do it valiantly. |
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