Psalms 125

Psalms 125:1-5

Compassed round. A song of the ascents. The third psalm goes beyond this to the fully realized result. Mount Zion is again in view, but only as a symbol of the immovable security of all that trust in Jehovah. The mountains stand around her; and so Jehovah Himself is for ever round about His people. And this in holiness: He would not allow the rod of wickedness to rest on the lot of the righteous, lest their feebleness give way before this prosperous iniquity, to follow the path of its success. Nay, let Jehovah do good unto the good, -not faultless, but through grace upright in the heart. For the rest, the perverters of their ways, He will surely give them their place among the workers of vanity, -all their subtlety shown only to be that, -and this for Israel’s peace as delivered from them.