Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Psalm 68 (13 of 36 notes)

The Treasury of David
by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)

13. Though ye have lain among the pots. Does he mean that the women at home, who had been meanly clad as they performed their household work, would be so gorgeously arrayed in the spoil that they would be like doves of silver wing and golden plumage? Or, would he say that Israel, which had been begrimed in the brick-kilns of Egypt, would come forth lustrous and happy in triumph and liberty? Or, did the song signify that the ark would be brought into a fairer dwelling-place? If we knew all that was known when this ancient hymn was composed, the allusion would no doubt strike us as being beautifully appropriate, but as we do not, we will let it rest among the unriddled things. Of making many conjectures there is no end; but the sense seems to be that from the lowest condition the Lord would lift up his people into joy, liberty, wealth, and beauty. Their enemies may have called them squatters among the pots—in allusion to their Egyptian slavery; they may have jested at them as scullions of Pharaoh’s kitchen; but the Lord would avenge them and give them beauty for blackness, glory for grime. Yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold. God’s saints have been in worse places than among the pots, but now they soar aloft into the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

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