Book 2

42 and 43. In the two first psalms of this book, Christ takes the place of the godly remnant as cast out of all Jewish privilege by the power of the enemy and the apostasy of the Jews themselves - a nation " Lo-chisid."
44-48. We have the appeal of the remnant to God, as the One who, at the beginning, had delivered them, with all the consequences consequent on the intervention of Messiah in Psa. 45, 49 being a moral comment on human grandeur in view of this.
In 50, God has summoned all in judgment, and shines out of Zion, owned the " perfection of beauty." 51. The Jews own their guilt in connection with the death of Christ.
In 52-58, we see the wickedness and violence within, i.e., among the people. In 59, it is more the heathen without come against them at the same time. But in 60, in the midst of this distress, there is the assurance that God Himself will interfere, and claim His own rights in the midst of them.
In 61, Messiah identifies Himself with the outcast remnant; and, in 62, expresses His confidence in God so as to lead theirs, and that of all men.
All these psalms are to God, and not to the LORD; i.e., depend on what God is in Himself.
In 63, it is the earnest desire of Messiah's soul after God, as He has known Him in the sanctuary. 64. The confidence of the Spirit of Christ in God, though obliged to wait for Him till the judgment is executed. In 65, His faith is pressing: God has only to give the word, and He will have the praise that waits for Him. While in 66, God's intervention in judgment is celebrated, and their state described until it come. In 67, the face of God, shining on His people, carries His saving health among all nations. 68. The heavenly exaltation of Christ, is the source of the blessing of His people. 69. All the depth of His distress as man--not exactly the cup of wrath, though it is on the cross. 70. He looks for deliverance; and that those who seek God may be able to praise God because of it, however needy He may be. In 71, He speaks as the representative of the family of David-all dying out. In 72, the son of David, in his new glorious reign on earth. That closes the book.
74. The cry, the remnant. Their present confidence is in God, through looking for Him to take the place of Jehovah.
Messiah comes in. 6. Then His divine title owned. 9. When we have the kingdom on earth, Jerusalem is the bride. 14. The virgins are the cities of Judah. 16. The old thing is not remembered; but the new, which grace has introduced.
The remnant find that they are owned as the nation, when they have settled in Zion. Messiah having been introduced, God is the God of Jacob.
In 47, He is subduing the peoples under their feet. The consequence of God's establishment in Zion is His stretching out His hand over the nations.
Zion takes her place. She is established in blessedness. 8. "As we have heard, so have we seen." It is not merely that He has come there, He is settled there. Not "I had gone with the multitude," but, "in the midst of thy temple." 10. "According to the name," etc. They had trusted the name, and now so is it. 14. Unto death-that is, all their life long. Death not destroyed. The desire of 42, 43, and 44, is fulfilled in 48.
A moral sermon; a kind of "improvement" of 44-49. 15. Resurrection, or preservation from death.
They now come into the covenant "by sacrifice;" not by obedience, as at Sinai. 3. The way He gets to Zion.
Their confession. 19. When the heart is set right, their "sacrifices of righteousness" are acceptable. Mercy coming before righteousness is always a sign of the remnant.
In 42, we have Israel cast out. In 45, the temporal deliverance. In 51, the deliverance within. The secret of the whole we get in 78 and 49 on to 72. In 50:6. The heavens declare His righteousness; in 68:18, we find that Christ has ascended there; in 69, we learn how He got there: whilst 72, gives His royal place in Zion in Solomon.
The horror of Spirit of Christ at seeing the total iniquity at Jerusalem - Judas and Antichrist. 10. Jerusalem. 20. Antichrist.
More outward. 8. "Wanderings;" that is, up and down, not knowing what to cry.
11. The meaning of judgment.
6. Not within the city yet.
3. " Hard things" shown the people. 4. "A banner " given to them that fear, that it may be displayed because of the truth.
61. All outside; when Jesus went beyond Jordan and abode there. The hill Mizar and Hermon.
The cast-out king. 2. The desire is not as in mysticism after a thing never known, but " to see Thy power and Thy glory, so as I have seen Thee," &c. 3. His life was all sorrow, yet, "because Thy loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise Thee."
3. "They bend their bows to shoot their arrows;" but, 7, "God shall shoot at them with an arrow."
4. The Jews blessed. 8. Then all the earth.
18. The secret of it all. Jehovah received up into glory - the mystery of Godliness.
The utmost distress of Christ in the midst of Israel. 26. The fact of atonement, though not directly stated. He is looking at sorrows from the reproachers (not as in psalm 22), therefore the judgment of men..
72:16. Does not touch heaven; so it is not Son of man's dominion, but the King's son's.