Psalm 68:19

19 Gepriesen sei der Herr! Tag für Tag trägt er unsere Last; Gott ist unsere Rettung. (Sela.)

Psalm 68:19 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 68:19

Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us [with benefits],
&c.] With all spiritual blessings, with an abundance of grace, as well as with temporal mercies, for which he is, and ought to be, praised day by day: so Aben Ezra and Kimchi supply the text, and suppose the word "blessings" or "goodness" to be wanting; though the words may be rendered, "blessed be the Lord day by day, he will hear us", or "carry us" F15; as a father his child, or a shepherd his lambs; and so he does from the womb, even to hoary hairs; and therefore blessing and praise should be ascribed to him; see ( Isaiah 46:3 Isaiah 46:4 ) ( 63:9 ) ; or "he will put a burden upon us" F16; meaning the burden of afflictions: these are of the Lord's laying upon his people; and he will lay no more upon them than he will enable them to bear; and will, in his own time and way, deliver them from them, and be the author of salvation to them, as follows; and therefore his name is to be praised, ( 1 Corinthians 10:13 ) ; the Targum interprets it of the burdensomeness of the law;

``blessed be the Lord every day, he burdens us, adding precepts unto precepts;''

[even] the God of our salvation;
the author of temporal, spiritual, and eternal salvation, as Christ is.

Selah; on this word, (See Gill on Psalms 3:2).


FOOTNOTES:

F15 (wnl omey) "portal nos", Vatablus, Musculus; "bajulat nos", Cocceius.
F16 "Onus imponit nobis", Lutherus, Gejerus.

Psalm 68:19 In-Context

17 Der Wagen Gottes sind zwei Zehntausende, Tausende und aber Tausende; der Herr ist unter ihnen: ein Sinai an Heiligkeit.
18 Du bist aufgefahren in die Höhe, du hast die Gefangenschaft gefangen geführt; du hast Gaben empfangen im Menschen, und selbst für Widerspenstige, damit Jehova, Gott, eine Wohnung habe.
19 Gepriesen sei der Herr! Tag für Tag trägt er unsere Last; Gott ist unsere Rettung. (Sela.)
20 Gott ist uns ein Gott der Rettungen, und bei Jehova, dem Herrn, stehen die Ausgänge vom Tode.
21 Gewiß, Gott wird zerschmettern das Haupt seiner Feinde, den Haarscheitel dessen, der da wandelt in seinen Vergehungen.
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