![]() As in Isaiah 18:2 2That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled! (Isaiah 18:2), ambassadors sent by sea to bring them back to their land, but in verse 5 they are all cut down, and in verse 7 the Lord gathers them and establishes them in blessing. This testimony to Jehovah’s mercy enduring forever connects them in principle with the ark when it was brought back by David after “Ichabod” had been written on the people, for there it was that Israel first sang, “His mercy endureth forever.” Though they are the redeemed and brought back in this psalm, they are still in trouble, and in verse 39 they are brought low, even after being in the land. God is per- ceived on the one hand in terms of personal relations, in I-Thou terms, and on the other as an ordering power with increasingly su- perpersonal. It is the song of the redeemed, as such, recounting all the vicissitudes of their return, and how in it all, mercy has triumphed over judgment. ![]() Psalm 107, verses 13, give the general character of the book.
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