Psalms 111

Psalms 111:1

Be - To protect and strengthen him. Right - hand - Benjamin signifies the son of the right hand, a dearly beloved son, as Benjamin was to Jacob. Son of man - The people of Israel, who are often spoken of as one person, as God’s son and first - born.

Psalms 111:2

Go back - Revolt from thee to idolatry or wickedness. Quicken - Revive and restore us to our tranquility.

Psalms 111:9

Joseph - Among the people of Israel. Testimony - For a witness of that glorious deliverance. He - God. Went - As a captain at the head of his people. Egypt - To execute his judgments upon that land. I - My progenitors, for all the successive generations of Israel make one body, and are sometimes spoken of as one person. A language - The Egyptian language, which at first was unknown to the Israelites, Genesis 42:13, and probably continued so for some considerable time, because they were much separated both in place and conversation from the Egyptians.

Psalms 111:10

Pots - This word denotes all those vessels wherein they carried water, straw, lime, or bricks.