Psalm 60:5
Read Psalm 60:5 Using Other Translations
What does Psalm 60:5 mean?
That thy beloved may be delivered
Some think that these words express the effect or end of the
banner being displayed; but because of the word "Selah" at the
end of ( Psalms 60:4 ) , which
makes so full a stop; rather they are to be considered in
construction with the following clause. By the Lord's "beloved"
ones are meant, not so much the people of Israel, who were loved
and chosen by the Lord above all people on the face of the earth,
as the elect of God, both among Jews and Gentiles, who are the
chosen of God, and precious, and are loved of him with a free,
sovereign, everlasting, and unchangeable love: these are the
beloved of Father, Son, and Spirit; who, falling into a state of
condemnation and death in Adam, and being under the power of sin,
and involved in the guilt and faith of it; and being fallen into
the hands of many enemies, sin, Satan, and the world; stood in
need of deliverance out of all this, which they could not work
out of themselves, nor any creature for them; wherefore, that
they might be delivered, the following request is made;
save [with] thy right hand;
from sin, the cause of damnation; from the law, which threatens
with condemnation and death; from Satan, that would devour and
destroy; and from all their enemies; from wrath to come, from
hell and the second death; or from going down to the pit of
corruption. The persons for whom this petition is put up are not
only David himself, but all the beloved ones; and these God has
appointed unto salvation; Christ is the Saviour of them, and to
them salvation is applied in due time by the Spirit, and in a
little while they will be in the full possession of it: and this
is wrought out by the "right hand" of the Lord; either by his
mighty power, the saving strength of his right hand, who is
mighty to save; or by his Son, the man of his right hand, made
strong for himself, who able to save to the uttermost; and by
whom God has determined to save, and does save all his people; or
the words may be rendered, "save thy right hand, [thy] Benjamins"
F16 who are as near and dear to thee as thy right hand, being his mystical self, to whom salvation is brought by him, ( Isaiah 63:1 Isaiah 63:5 ) ;
and hear
me;
in so doing, he suggests he would hear and answer him his prayers
would be ended and accomplished; this being the sum of them, his
own salvation, and the salvation of the Lord's beloved ones. The
"Cetib", or writing of this clause, is, "hear us"; the "Keri", or
reading of it, "hear me".
F16 (Knymy
heyvwh) .
