Of the Messiah’s Exaltation
Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation, or, “Are we burdened, He, God, is our Help, He burdens Himself for us,” thus helping us to bear the load which often seems too heavy for us. Selah.
V. 20. He that is our God, again the language of trusting faith, is the God of salvation, of the many acts of deliverance which we experience in our lives; and unto God the Lord belong the issues from death, He has outlets, ways of escape, from death, He alone is able to rescue us from eternal death and to grant us the gift of eternal life; that is the privilege, the wonderful, mighty prerogative, of the exalted Christ.
V. 21. But God shall wound the head of His enemies, break it to pieces, utterly destroy them, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses, whose defiant wildness refuses to bow to the authority of God.
V. 22. The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, the wild fastnesses of the mountainous region east of Jordan, I will bring My people, rather, “the enemies,” again from the depths of the sea; for whether they were hiding in the mountain forests or in the abysses of the Salt Sea, the Lord would search them out to mete out judgment to them; v. 23. that thy foot, that of the Church personified as one individual, may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, which would flow copiously as the Lord struck them down in punishment, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same, the picture being taken from Oriental conditions, where the dogs licked up the blood of the slain, 1 Kings 22, 38.
V. 24. They, the members of the Church of God, have seen Thy goings, O God, His triumphal march; even the goings of my God, my King, in the Sanctuary, as His procession moves on in holiness.
V. 25. The singers went before, leading the triumphal procession, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels, the virgins, playing with timbrels, moving along on either side, their hymns proclaiming the victory of the Messiah.
V. 26. Bless ye God in the congregations, wherever the believers meet for worship, even the Lord, from the fountain of Israel, all the spiritual descendants of Abraham.
V. 27. There is little Benjamin with their ruler, the conqueror of the enemies mentioned before, the princes of Judah and their council, the band of the leaders in Israel, the princes of Zebulon, and the princes of Naphtali, apparently a motley crowd, a great mass, but all united in the praise of the exalted Messiah; for in the spiritual Israel the high and the lowly, the rich and the poor, unite their voices in exalting the Lord, their King.