Psalms 147:2. The LORD doth build up Jerusalem:
There is something for which to praise him. When the Jews came back from captivity, and found their beautiful city all in ruin, God helped them to build it up again, so they sang, "The Lord doth build up Jerusalem." We may sing the same sacred song, for the psalmist does not say, "The Lord hath builded," but "The Lord doth build up Jerusalem," he is going on to build it: the Divine Architect’s plan of salvation is still being carried out, the great Master Builder is still placing stone upon stone in the wondrous courses of his election of grace: "The Lord doth build up Jerusalem." O Lord, build up this part of the wall!
Psalms 147:2. He gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.
Those that were far away, captives in Babylon, he brought back again. God has a long arm, which he is casting round his outcast chosen ones, for he means to gather them all to himself. He has an elect redeemed people, and they are scattered throughout the whole world; but even Caiaphas knew enough of the truth to declare that Christ "should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad."
Psalms 147:2. The LORD doth build up Jerusalem:
There is something for which to praise him. When the Jews came back from captivity, and found their beautiful city all in ruin, God helped them to build it up again, so they sang, "The Lord doth build up Jerusalem." We may sing the same sacred song, for the psalmist does not say, "The Lord hath builded," but "The Lord doth build up Jerusalem," he is going on to build it: the Divine Architect’s plan of salvation is still being carried out, the great Master Builder is still placing stone upon stone in the wondrous courses of his election of grace: "The Lord doth build up Jerusalem." O Lord, build up this part of the wall!
Psalms 147:2. He gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.
Those that were far away, captives in Babylon, he brought back again. God has a long arm, which he is casting round his outcast chosen ones, for he means to gather them all to himself. He has an elect redeemed people, and they are scattered throughout the whole world; but even Caiaphas knew enough of the truth to declare that Christ "should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad."