Psalms 111
DOYLYPsalms 111:5
- — shall strike through &c.] Jesus destroyed both the Jewish and Roman persecutors, and will destroy all the enemies of his Church. Abp. Secker. See Ps. ii. 9, and xlv. 5; Rev. xix. 15.
Psalms 111:6
- He shall judge &c.] He shall convince the heathen world, that He is their Lawgiver and their Judge. He shall take severe vengeance on those who persecute his subjects, and shall crush the supreme power in various countries. Bp. Patrick.
Psalms 111:7
- He shall drink &c.] By “drinking of the brook by the way,” allusion seems to be made to the support and refreshment which Christ experienced. The phrase relates, it is probable, to those consolations which He received at the beginning of his great conflict with the powers of darkness, particularly in his agony, when there appeared to Him an angel from heaven strengthening Him, Luke xxii. 43. Merrick, Bp. Lowth.
We should remember on reading this Psalm, that we have a Priest in heaven, who stands continually pleading the merits of his sacrifice once offered on the cross. Oblation, intercession, and benediction are the three great branches of the sacerdotal office, which our great High Priest now exercises for us, and in the exercise of which the Father has condescended in the most awful manner to promise, that he will hear Him, and accept Him in our behalf. His priesthood is not like that of Aaron, transient, figurative, and successive, but real and effective, fixed and incommunicable, eternal and unchangeable. He is “a Priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.” Bp. Horne.
Psalm CXI. The author of this Psalm celebrates the majesty and goodness of God displayed in a very eminent manner in the wonderful things He had done