Psalms 8–10

Psalm viii. is the celebration of Jehovah’s millennial dominion and the glory of the Son of man in connexion with, and in the mouth of, the Jewish people.

I pass over the 9th and 10th Psalms — the former celebrating the judgment of the enemies of Israel, the latter descriptive of (he wickedness of their oppressors. They express the consciousness during the oppression that God does see it, and does not forget the humble; and then, on the deliverance, celebrate the faithfulness of Jehovah. The world is judged in righteousness, and Jehovah known by the judgment which lie executes. I have only to draw the reader’s Berious attention to the judgment of the world here spoken of, and the main scene of it in the laud of Israel; while, in every case, the humble soul in oppression and trial may walk in peaceful assurance that God sees it. and that its cause is in the hands of (iod. Veil, what is more difficult, that when it has brought it on itself, if truly humbled, it may count on

God. I now turn to the expression of the feeling of those who are in tire trial before the deliverance comes, and while they have to possess their souls in patience.