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Psalms 67:1-7

The Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 67:1-7

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

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ACCORDING to some, this psalm, like , is a harvest thanksgiving (Hengstenberg, Cheyne). But the single expression (in ) on which this view is grounded seems insufficient to support it, more especially as that expression may well be understood figuratively (see ; ; ; ; , etc.). The real idea of the psalm appears to be an aspiration after the general conversion of the world, to be effected by God's special manifestation of his mercy upon Israel. This will draw all nations to him. The psalm is one of three stanzas, consisting respectively of two, two, and three verses. The second and third stanzas have the same initiatory refrain (, ). In the first stanza the "selah" is a pause of reverence, not a break in the sense.

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