Psalm 92

Psalm xcii. is really praise for the final deliverance of Israel, and Jehovah’s millennial name is the key to it, as of the last. As the following psalms arc the bringing in again the only begotten, there is one principle to note in it — the elevation of the wicked is finally for their destruction. The man untaught of God does not see this; but faith discerns in its adversaries and the power of evil which rises up and presses on it, darkening its horizon, the enemies of the Lord. Hence, though tried more than another, for the power of evil is very painful to it, it has confidence. For though it would be foreign to wish personally for vengeance (and we have to watch against this), is it so to the Christian to rejoice in the earth being delivered from the power of the wicked1? On the contrary, “Rejoice now ye prophets and ye holy apostles.” It is said, Faith gives a keen sense of the evil, because it is such and hostile to God and goodness and truth, and rejoices in the righteous judgment. But it is as the Lord’s work, as the work of His hands, it rejoices in it; and that is perfect. It displays, too, the uprightness

I ill: PSALMS. — PSALM XCIII. 241

of the Lord, but faith must wait in patience. The following psalms discuss and celebrate the coming in of

this judgment.