Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?
This psalm draws its materials from the fifty-seventh and sixtieth psalms, so I need not repeat what I have already expounded on those passages. The composer has taken portions from each and woven them here together.
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Commenting on Psalm 108:1-13
Faith leads on to strong desire for the realization of the promise, and hence the practical question, Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom? The difficulty is plainly perceived. Petra is strong and hard to enter: the Psalmist warrior knows that he cannot enter the city by his own power, and he therefore asks who is to help him.
Prayer must be public-spirited: bear the Church's concerns before God's throne. Act faith upon His power and promise, with Him saying and doing are not two things, whatever they are with us. Take comfort in what God has secured to us, though we are not yet in possession of it.
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Commenting on Psalm 108:6-13