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Scott's Reference Library
Psalm 22:23 through Psalm 22:31 (NIV)
23 You who fear the LORD, praise him!
All you descendants of Jacob, honor him!
Revere him, all you descendants of Israel!
24 For he has not despised or disdained
the suffering of the afflicted one;
he has not hidden his face from him
but has listened to his cry for help.
25 From you comes the theme of my praise in the great assembly;
before those who fear you will I fulfill my vows.
26 The poor will eat and be satisfied;
they who seek the LORD will praise him—
may your hearts live forever!
27 All the ends of the earth
will remember and turn to the LORD,
and all the families of the nations
will bow down before him,
28 for dominion belongs to the LORD
and he rules over the nations.
29 All the rich of the earth will feast and worship;
all who go down to the dust will kneel before him—
those who cannot keep themselves alive.
30 Posterity will serve him;
future generations will be told about the Lord.
31 They will proclaim his righteousness
to a people yet unborn—
for he has done it.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
VERSES 22-31
The Saviour now speaks as risen from the dead. The first words of the complaint
were used by Christ himself upon the cross; the first words of the triumph are
expressly applied to him, Hebrews 2:12. All our praises must refer to the work
of redemption. The suffering of the Redeemer was graciously accepted as a full
satisfaction for sin. Though it was offered for sinful men, the Father did not
despise or abhor it for our sakes. This ought to be the matter of our
thanksgiving. All humble, gracious souls should have a full satisfaction and
happiness in him. Those that hunger and thirst after righteousness in Christ,
shall not labour for that which satisfies not. Those that are much in praying,
will be much in thanksgiving. Those that turn to God, will make conscience of
worshipping before him. Let every tongue confess that he is Lord. High and low,
rich and poor, bond and free, meet in Christ. Seeing we cannot keep alive our
own souls, it is our wisdom, by obedient faith, to commit our souls to Christ,
who is able to save and keep them alive for ever. A seed shall serve him. God
will have a church in the world to the end of time. They shall be accounted to
him for a generation; he will be the same to them that he was to those who went
before them. His righteousness, and not any of their own, they shall declare to
be the foundation of all their hopes, and the fountain of all their joys.
Redemption by Christ is the Lord’s own doing. Here we see the free love and
compassion of God the Father, and of our Lord Jesus Christ, for us wretched
sinners, as the source of all grace and consolation; the example we are to
follow, the treatment as Christians we are to expect, and the conduct under it
we are to adopt. Every lesson may here be learned that can profit the humbled
soul. Let those who go about to establish their own righteousness inquire, why
the beloved Son of God should thus suffer, if their own doings could atone for
sin? Let the ungodly professor consider whether the Saviour thus honoured the
Divine law, to purchase him the privilege of despising it. Let the careless take
warning to flee from the wrath to come, and the trembling rest their hopes upon
this merciful Redeemer. Let the tempted and distressed believer cheerfully
expect a happy end of every trial.