Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown (1871). Conservative evangelical (Church of Scotland and Anglican); concise and critical.
This triumphal song was probably occasioned by the same event as the forty-sixth [see on Psa 46:1, title]. The writer celebrates the glory of the Church, as the means of spiritual blessing to the nation. (Psa 87:1-7)
His — that is, God's
foundation — or, what He has founded, that is, Zion (Isa 14:32).
is in the holy mountains — the location of Zion, in the wide sense, for the capital, or Jerusalem, being on several hills.
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Psalms 86
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown (1871). Conservative evangelical (Church of Scotland and Anglican); concise and critical.
Introduction to chapter 86
This triumphal song was probably occasioned by the same event as the forty-sixth [see on Psa 46:1, title]. The writer celebrates the glory of the Church, as the means of spiritual blessing to the nation. (Psa 87:1-7)
His — that is, God's
foundation — or, what He has founded, that is, Zion (Isa 14:32).
is in the holy mountains — the location of Zion, in the wide sense, for the capital, or Jerusalem, being on several hills.
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