Psalms 72

For Solomon] Made by David for him; ult by David in his old age. The like inscription is Psal. CXXVII.

This Psalme is composed, as in the name of the Church. And contains a Prayer, a Praise, and a Prophesie, of the just, peaceable, righteous, merciful, plentiful, flourishing estate, and large extent and bounds of the Kingdome of Solomon; set out indeed with some hyperbolical expressions; scarcely appliable to him, or to any mortal man. So as Solomon may be the immediate object of the words, he literaly intended in them. But yet he so, as a Type of Christ, and of his Kingdome; who is in truth the maine subject of this Psalme. For all in a mystical sense is appliable to Christ more truly, then to Solomon; appliable to him in a spiritual sense, exactly without any hyperbole. For Solomon, see that 2 Sam.

VII. 14. &c. For Christ, see that Heb. I. 5. And that passadge, Psal. LXXXIX. 19,—37. is not unlike the subject matter of this Psalme. This premised, may serve to clear the hardest places of this Psalme.

Psalms 72:20

The prayers] Psalmes, Hymnes, Songs.

are ended] As the like is said of Davids words, 2 Sam. XXIII. 1. The one may be as an Appendix of the other. This his last Prayer, though not placed in the last place. Or the last of those that David set in order before his death: or the last in this second part or book of the Psalmes, as they are all divided into five parts. Or his last, touching Solomon; and his prophesying of Christ and his Kingdome. So various may our thoughts and interpretations be; and so uncertaine and unsafe to pitch and fixe upon any single one.