Keil and Delitzsch Commentary - Psalms 106:1 - 106:1

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Keil and Delitzsch Commentary - Psalms 106:1 - 106:1


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The Psalm begins with the liturgical call, which has not coined for the first time in the Maccabaean age (1 Macc. 4:24), but was already in use in Jeremiah's time (Psa 33:11). The lxx appropriately renders טֹּוב by χρηστός, for God is called “good” not so much in respect of His nature as of the revelation of His nature. The fulness of this revelation, says Psa 106:2 (like Psa 40:6), is inexhaustible. גְּבוּרֹות are the manifestations of His all-conquering power which makes everything subservient to His redemptive purposes (Psa 20:7); and תְּהִלָּה is the glory (praise or celebration) of His self-attestation in history. The proclaiming of these on the part of man can never be an exhaustive echo of them. In Psa 106:3 the poet tells what is the character of those who experience such manifestations of God; and to the assertion of the blessedness of these men he appends the petition in Psa 106:4, that God would grant him a share in the experiences of the whole nation which is the object of these manifestations. עַמֶּךָ beside בִּרְצֹון is a genitive of the object: with the pleasure which Thou turnest towards Thy people, i.e., when Thou again (cf. Psa 106:47) showest Thyself gracious unto them. On פָּקַד cf. Psa 8:5; Psa 80:15, and on רָאָה בְ, Jer 29:32; a similar Beth is that beside לִשְׂמֹחַ (at, on account of, not: in connection with), Psa 21:2; Psa 122:1. God's “inheritance” is His people; the name for them is varied four times, and thereby גֹּוי is also exceptionally brought into use, as in Zep 2:9.