May there be abundance of grain in the land; on the tops of the mountains may it wave; may its fruit be like Lebanon; and may people blossom in the cities like the grass of the field!
The inscription leaves us uncertain who composed this psalm, though it closes David's prayers and bears his mark more than Solomon's. Solomon could scarcely have prophesied his own reign without vanity; but David, foreseeing the prosperity promised his house, lifted his eyes to that greatest King yet to come, the Messiah, whose reign this description truly fits.
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Commenting on Psalm 72:1-20
A handful of corn on the bare mountain top, this is how Christ's kingdom begins, yet from it springs a harvest so vast the very wind shakes it like Lebanon's cedars. His church is no mean thing; small in origin, astonishing in increase, and we need not fear for truth's cause, for it rests in hands where God's pleasure shall prosper it.
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That handful is Christ Himself, little regarded on earth, yet compare Him to the grain of wheat that falls into the ground and dies. His death was no accident but design; He was sown in burial to rise again, and from His dying shall spring a multitude as numerous as grass, fulfilling what the type of Jonah prefigured.
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