Psalms 46

Psalms 46:1

THE title: [Alamoth] see 1 Chronicles 15:20. and upon Psal. 6. in the title.

Psalms 46:4

A river] the Church shall enjoy her sweet rest, and security, though it have in it selfe but weak meanes, meant by those smal streames and torrents where with Ierusalem was watered; opposite to great rivers and seas that is to say, the power and greatnesse of the world, see Isaiah 8:6.

Psalms 46:5

Right early] the Italian, when the morning appeareth, that is to say, just in the point and very moment of the greatest danger, even as when after the dangers of the night, with the day the assalt is expected, as God hath done in diverse a〈…〉ctions of his people, Exod. 14. 24. 27. 2 Chronicles 20:20. Psalms 30:5.

Psalms 46:6

The heathen] this may bee understood of some singular deliverance, as that of 2 Chron. 14. 12. and 20. 23 and 32. 2. or of such ordinary ones as God sendeth to his Church: [hee uttered] a figurative description of Gods miraculous assistance without any humane meanes, as Psa. 18. 6. 7.

Psalms 46:8

Hee hath made] or hee hath sent desolations upon the earth, that is to say, hee hath destroyed the Kingdomes of the world which were his enemies.

Psalms 46:10

Be still] Gods words to his enemies, to exhort them to repentance, or to denounce perdition to them, if they continue.