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The poet now begins himself to do that to which he encourages Israel. Jahve is Israel's God: His righteous rule extends over the whole earth, whilst His people experience His inviolable faithfulness to His covenant. יהוה in Psa 105:7 is in apposition to הוּא, for the God who bears this name is as a matter of course the object of the song of praise. זָכַר is the perfect of practically pledges certainty (cf. Psa 111:5, where we find instead the future of confident prospect). The chronicler has זִכְרוּ instead (lxx again something different: μνημονεύωμεν); but the object is not the demanding but the promissory side of the covenant, so that consequently it is not Israel's remembering but God's that is spoken of. He remembers His covenant in all time to come, so that exile and want of independence as a state are only temporary, exceptional conditions. צִוָּה has its radical signification here, to establish, institute, Psa 111:9. לְאֶלֶף דֹּור (in which expression דור is a specifying accusative) is taken from Deu 7:9. And since דָּבָר is the covenant word of promise, it can be continued אֲשֶׁר כָּרַת; and Hag 2:5 (vid., Köhler thereon) shows that אשׁר is not joined to בריתו over Psa 105:8. וּשְׁבוּעָתֹו, however, is a second object to זָכַר (since דָּבָר with what belongs to it as an apposition is out of the question). It is the oath on Moriah (Gen 22:16) that is meant, which applied to Abraham and his seed. לְיִשְׂחָק (chronicler לְיִצְחָק), as in Amo 7:9; Jer 33:26. To זָכַר is appended וַיַּֽעֲמִרדֶהָ; the suffix, intended as neuter, points to what follows, viz., this, that Canaan shall be Israel's hereditary land. From Abraham and Isaac we come to Jacob-Israel, who as being the father of the twelve is the twelve-tribe nation itself that is coming into existence; hence the plural can alternate with the singular in Psa 105:11. אֶת־אֶרֶץ כְּנַעַן (chronicler, without the את) is an accusative of the object, and חֶבֶל נַחֲלַתְכֶם accusative of the predicate: the land of Canaan as the province of your own hereditary possession measured out with a measuring line (Psa 78:55).