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<p id="Chapter60" align="center">Commentary by A. R. FAUSSET<br>PSALM 60
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<p id="Ps60_1"><a onclick="return mV('Psa',60,'1-12');">Psa 60:1-12</a>.
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<p><i>Shushan-eduth</i>—Lily of testimony. The lily is an emblem of beauty (see on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Psa/Psa045.html#Ps45_1">Psa 45:1</a>, title). As a description of the Psalm, those terms combined may denote a beautiful poem, witnessing—that is, for God's faithfulness as evinced in the victories referred to in the history cited. <i>Aram-naharaim</i>—Syria of the two rivers, or Mesopotamia beyond the <i>river</i> (Euphrates) (<a onclick="return mV('2Sa',10,16);">2Sa 10:16</a>). <i>Aram-zobah</i>—Syria of Zobah (<a onclick="return mV('2Sa',10,6);">2Sa 10:6</a>), to whose king the king of the former was tributary. The war with Edom, by Joab and Abishai (<a onclick="return mV('2Ch',18,12,25);">2Ch 18:12, 25</a>), occurred about the same time. Probably, while doubts and fears alternately prevailed respecting the issue of these wars, the writer composed this Psalm, in which he depicts, in the language of God's people, their sorrows under former disasters, offers prayer in present straits, and rejoices in confident hope of triumph by God's aid.
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<p><b>1-3.</b> allude to disasters.
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<br><br><b>cast...off</b>—in scorn (<a href= "#" onclick="return mV('Psa',43,2);">Psa 43:2</a>; <a href= "#" onclick="return mV('Psa',44,9);">44:9</a>).
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<br><br><b>scattered</b>—broken our strength (compare <a onclick="return mV('2Sa',5,20);">2Sa 5:20</a>).
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<br><br><b>Oh, turn thyself</b>—or, "restore to us" (prosperity). The figures of physical, denote great civil, commotions (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',46,2,3);">Psa 46:2-3</a>).
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<p id="Ps60_3"><b>3. drink...wine of astonishment</b>—literally, "of staggering"—that is, made us weak (compare <a onclick="return mV('Psa',75,8);">Psa 75:8</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',51,17,22);">Isa 51:17, 22</a>).
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<p id="Ps60_4"><b>4, 5.</b> Yet to God's banner they will rally, and pray that, led and sustained by His power (right hand, <a onclick="return mV('Psa',17,7);">Psa 17:7</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',20,6);">20:6</a>), they may be safe.
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<p id="Ps60_5"><b>5. hear me</b>—or, "hear us."
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<p id="Ps60_6"><b>6-10. God hath spoken in</b>—or, "by."
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<br><br><b>his holiness</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',89,35);">Psa 89:35</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Amo',4,2);">Amo 4:2</a>), on the pledge of His attributes (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',22,3);">Psa 22:3</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',30,4);">30:4</a>). Taking courage from God's promise to give them possession (<a onclick="return mV('Exd',23,31);">Exd 23:31</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Deu',11,24);">Deu 11:24</a>) (and perhaps renewed to him by special revelation), with triumphant joy he describes the conquest as already made.
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<br><br><b>Shechem, and...Succoth</b>—as widely separated points, and—
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<p id="Ps60_7"><b>7. Gilead...and Manasseh</b>—as large districts, east and west of Jordan, represent the whole land.
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<br><br><b>divide...and mete out</b>—means to have entire control over.
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<br><br><b>Ephraim</b>—denotes the military (<a onclick="return mV('Deu',33,17);">Deu 33:17</a>); and—
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<br><br><b>Judah</b>—(the lawgiver, <a onclick="return mV('Gen',49,10);">Gen 49:10</a>), the civil power. Foreign nations are then presented as subdued.
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<p id="Ps60_8"><b>8. Moab</b>—is a my washpot—the most ordinary vessel.
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<br><br><b>over</b>—or, "at"
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<br><br><b>Edom</b>—(as a slave) he casts his shoe.
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<br><br><b>Philistia, triumph,</b> etc.—or, rather, "shout."
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<br><br><b>for me</b>—acknowledges subjection (compare <a onclick="return mV('Psa',108,9);">Psa 108:9</a>, "over Philistia will I triumph").
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<p id="Ps60_9"><b>9, 10.</b> He feels assured that, though once angry, God is now ready to favor His people.
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<br><br><b>who will lead me</b>— or, <i>who has led me,</i> as if the work were now begun.
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<p id="Ps60_10"><b>10. Wilt not thou?</b>—or, "Is it not Thou?"
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<p id="Ps60_11"><b>11, 12.</b> Hence he closes with a prayer for success, and an assurance of a hearing.
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