Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 130:8
And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
8. HE is emphatic. He Who possesses this infinite love and wisdom and power will deliver Israel from all his iniquities and from the calamities which are the punishment of those iniquities. Cp. Psa 25:22.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities – His people. He will completely deliver them from the power and the pollution of sin. This will ultimately be accomplished in reference to his whole church, and to every true member of that church. This was the highest object before the mind of the psalmist – that with which the psalm appropriately closes. And this is the highest object before the mind of every true child of God – that he may be completely and forever delivered from the power and the dominion of sin. This will be perfectly accomplished in heaven only; but there and then the bliss will be complete. The psalm begins with an earnest cry from the depths; it closes with the triumphant hope of complete and eternal deliverance. There is one world where there is no occasion to cry to God from the depths of sorrow and of sin.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Psa 130:8
He shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
Sin shall be overthrown
Once, in the theological seminary, Dr. Robinson burst out before the class and said, Gentlemen, drive these four stakes down–sin is a tremendous evil; God is not the author of sin; God is not impotent before sin, but will control it; God gives to every man a power sufficient for his salvation. That is a good stake to drive down in this strange world–God is not impotent before evil, but wilt control it! Out of the clouds and darkness shall shine forth the righteousness and judgment which are the habitation of Gods throne. He shall cause the wrath of man to praise Him; the remainder He shall restrain. Satan himself shall surely be seen to be but the hewer of wood and the drawer of water for the sublime temple of the Divine purpose. God shall bruise Satan. How evidently this shines forth in the cross and death of our Lord and Saviour! Satans apparent triumph there was his worst defeat. (W. Hoyt, D. D.)
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Psa 131:1-3
Fuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell
Verse 8. He shall redeem Israel] , “He will make a ransom for Israel,” He will provide a great price for Israel, and by it will take away all his iniquities. I would not restrict this to Israel in Babylon. Every believer may take it to himself. God perfectly justifies and perfectly sanctifies all that come unto him through the Son of his love.
ANALYSIS OF THE HUNDRED AND THIRTIETH PSALM
In this Psalm the Spirit of God proposes to us the case of a person oppressed with the wrath of God against sin, yet flying to him for comfort, remission, and purification.
I. Acknowledging his miserable condition, he prays to be heard, Ps 130:1-2.
II. He desires remission of sin, Ps 130:3-4.
III. He expresses his hope and confidence, Ps 130:5-6.
IV. He exhorts God’s people to trust in him, Ps 130:7-8.
I. The psalmist likens himself to a man in the bottom of a pit: –
1. “Out of the depths have I cried,” c. A true penitent cries out of the depth of his misery, and from the depth of a heart sensible of it.
2. “Lord, hear my voice.” Although I be so low, thou canst hear me.
3. “Let thine ears be attentive,” c. Or I cry in vain.
II. But there was a reason why God should not hear. He was a grievous sinner but all men are the same therefore,
1. “If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquity.” And I have nothing of my own but it to bring before thee, yet execute not thy just anger on account of my transgressions; for,
2. “There is mercy with thee,” c. True repentance requires two things, the recognition of our own misery and the persuasion of God’s mercy. Both are needful for if we know not the former, we shall not seek mercy; and if we despair of mercy, we shall never find it.
3. “That thou mayest be feared.” Not with a servile but a filial fear, which involves prayer, faith, hope, love, adoration, giving of thanks, c. This fear leads to God’s throne as a merciful and pardoning God.
III. The method of God’s servants in their addresses to heaven is, that they believe, hope, pray, and expect. Thus did the psalmist.
1. “I expect the Lord.” In faith.
2. “My soul doth wait.” His expectation was active and real, and proceeded from fervency of heart.
3. His expectation was not presumptive, but grounded upon God’s word and promise: “In his word is my hope.”
4. “My soul waiteth for the Lord.” Which he illustrates by the similitude of a watchman who longs for the morning.
5. “I wait for the Lord more than they,” c. It was now night with him, darkness and misery were upon his soul the morning he expected was the remission of his sins, which must come from God’s mercy. For this he eagerly waited.
IV. He proposes his own example to God’s people: –
1. “Let Israel hope in the Lord,” like me, and cry from the depths.
2. “For with the Lord there is mercy.” This is the reason and encouragement for the hope. Mercy flows from him.
3. “And with him is redemption.” Which we need, being all sold under sin and this redemption was purchased for us by the death of his Son.
4. And this redemption is plentiful; for by it he has redeemed the whole world, 1Jo 1:2.
5. And this is to take effect upon Israel: “For he shall redeem Israel,” c. It is not, as the Jews expected, a temporal redemption, but a spiritual, as the angel told Joseph: “His name shall be called Jesus for he shall save his people from their sins.”
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
He shall redeem; the Lord, either God the Father by his Son, or God the Son by his own blood.
Israel; all true Israelites, whether of the carnal or spiritual seed.
From all his iniquities; from the guilt and punishment of all their sins.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities. The Lord shall do it; in whom Israel is encouraged to hope; with whom grace and redemption were; or who was appointed to be the Redeemer. Redemption was then future, when these words were said, but certain, by the promise of God and agreement of Christ; and would be of the whole Israel, or elect of God; and that from “all” their iniquities, original and actual; sins, secret and open, of heart, lip, and life: and which is no small encouragement for Israel to hope in the Lord, for the sake of which this is added; as well as for the further illustration of the nature of redemption by Christ; which is complete, and now obtained, and is an eternal one.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
8. And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities. Here the Psalmist applies more closely to the Church what he has said in the preceding verse. He concludes that it is not to be doubted that God, who has it in his power to save by multiplied means, will prove himself the deliverer of the people whom he has chosen. By these words he teaches us, that when we have evidence of our being adopted by God, we ought also to regard our salvation as certain. His meaning might be explained more familiarly in this way: As to redeem is the continual office of God, and as he is not the redeemer of all men indiscriminately, but only of his chosen people, there is no reason for apprehending that the faithful will not emerge from all calamities; for were it otherwise, God would cease to execute the office which he claims to himself. He repeats the sentiment of the preceding verse, that, provided Israel with all humility draw near to God to plead for pardon, his sins will not be an obstacle in the way of God’s showing himself his redeemer. Although the Hebrew word, עון , avon, is often put for the punishment of sin, yet it also contains a tacit reference to the fault. Whenever, then, God promises a mitigation of the punishment, he at the same time gives assurance that he will pardon the sins; or rather in offering to sinners a gratuitious reconciliation, he promises them forgiveness. According to this exposition it is here said that he will redeem his Church, not from the captivity of Babylon, or from the tyranny and oppression of enemies, or from penury, or, in short, from any other disasters but from sin; for until God pardon the sins of the men whom he afflicts, deliverance is not to be hoped for. Let us then learn from this passage in what way we are to expect deliverance from all calamities, or the order which it becomes us to observe in seeking it. Remission of sins always goes first, without which nothing will come to a favorable issue. Those who only desire to shake off the punishment are like silly invalids, who are careless about the disease itself with which they are afflicted, provided the symptoms which occasion them trouble for a time are removed. In order, then, that God may deliver us from our miseries, we must chiefly endeavor to be brought to a state of favor with him by obtaining the remission of our sins. If this is not obtained, it will avail us little to have the temporal punishment remitted; for that often happens even to the reprobate themselves. This is true and substantial deliverance, when God, by blotting out our sins, shows himself merciful towards us. Whence, also, we gather, that having once obtained forgiveness, we have no reason to be afraid of our being excluded from free access to, and from enjoying the ready exercise of, the lovingkindness and mercy of God; for to redeem from iniquity is equivalent to moderating punishments or chastisements. This serves as an argument to disprove the preposterous invention of the Papists respecting satisfactions and purgatory, as if God, in forgiving the fault, still reserved for a future time the execution of the punishment upon the sinner. If it is objected that the Lord sometimes punishes those whom he has already pardoned; in reply, I grant that he does not always, at the very moment in which he reconciles men to himself, show them the tokens of his favor, for he chastises them to render them circumspect for the future, but while he does this, he in the meantime fails not to moderate his rigour. This, however, forms no part of the satisfactions by which the Papists imagine that they present to God the half of the price of their redemption. In innumerable passages of Scripture, where God promises to his people outward blessings, he always begins with a promise of the pardon of sin. It is therefore the grossest ignorance to say, that God does not remit the punishment till they have pacified him by their works. Moreover, while God’s intention in inflicting some punishments or chastisements upon the faithful, is to bring them to yield a more perfect obedience to his law, the Papists are mistaken in extending these punishments beyond death. But it is not wonderful to find them heaping together so many heathenish dreams, seeing they adhere not to the true and only way of reconciliation, which is, that God is merciful only to such as seek the expiation of their sins in the sacrifice of Christ. It is to be noticed that it is said from all iniquities, that poor sinners, although they feel themselves to be guilty in many ways, may not cease to cherish the hope that God will be merciful to them.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(8) He.Emphatic. He and only He. The redemption must not be limited to the consequences of iniquity, though including these. The psalm belongs to the age of true national contrition, when nothing would satisfy but deliverance from sin, as well as from its punishment. This appears decisively from a comparison with Psa. 25:22, where the expression is from all his troubles. Thus, this psalm was prepared to be what it has become, one of the penitential psalms of the world.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Psa 130:8. From all his iniquities i.e. From the guilt, the nature, and the punishment of them. Redemption from sins always includes the punishment to be suffered in consequence of them.
REFLECTIONS.This is frequently reckoned among the seven penitential psalms; and indeed it is a most expressive description of the humbled sinner’s return to God: deep laden with iniquity, his complaints are bitter. Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord; an awakened sinner, brought to a sense of his guilt, feels such a load upon his conscience, as seems to press him down into the belly of hell. He is sunk under the floods of corruption; and but a step from despair, perishing he cries, Save, Lord! hear my voice, let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications; as long as a sinner is out of hell, the door of hope is yet open, and the voice of prayer may be heard: it is never too late; if God stirs up our souls to cry importunately after him, it is because he intends to be found by us in mercy: but it must only be hoped for in a way of mercy and with self-renunciation, and deepest confessions of our own vileness. If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities: O Lord, who shall stand? not that our most secret thoughts pass unobserved by him; no, he sees them afar off: and should he in strict justice call us to his bar, we cannot answer him for one of a thousand of our days; we must lay our hands on our mouths, and our mouths in the dust, plead utterly guilty, justify him in his judgments, and can only cast our souls on the mercy of our Judge. Thus desperate is the case of every sinner, and there is no difference; we are all by nature in the same condemnation, unable either to bear the scrutiny of his law, or to endure the dreadful sentence of his judgment. But there is forgiveness with thee, God hath himself contrived and accomplished that mysterious method of saving sinners, in which, without impeachment of his justice, he might, to the uttermost, exercise his mercy: through the propitiation of Jesus, a ransom is found, and for his sake God will be merciful to our unrighteousness: that thou mayest be feared; nothing steels the heart against God like despair; men then rush into sin with determined waywardness, as the horse rusheth into the battle; but a sense of his forgiving love engages the heart to fear the Lord and his goodness, and bids us never again wilfully transgress against a God so gracious. I wait for the Lord at mercy’s door, unworthy of notice, yet hoping for his kind regard; my soul doth wait, not with feigned professions, but with heart-felt desires, and in his word do I hope; emboldened by his promises, even when I can see nothing in myself but what preaches despair. My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say more than they that watch for the morning; as the Levites in the temple, who with sleepless eyes had stood at their several posts, longed for the morning to break, that they might be relieved; so eagerly did his soul long for the beams of God’s reconciled countenance to arise upon him, and his sad distress to be removed, by a sense of pardoning love; nor was ever soul, who thus trusted in him, and waited on him, confounded. Let Israel hope in the Lord, the Israel of God; to the end of time, under all their fears and dejections: for with the Lord there is mercy for every miserable sinner that through Jesus Christ draws near a throne of grace; and with him is plenteous redemption, grace abounding to the chief of sinners, comprehending the removal of every misery, and including the gift of all conceivable blessedness; yea, more than eye hath seen, or ear heard, or it hath entered into the heart of man to conceive. And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities, all who perseveringly cleave to him, from the guilt, the power, the consequences of them, present and eternal. Lord, may my soul be found among thy Israel, and partake of this rich, plenteous, and eternal redemption!
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
REFLECTIONS
MY soul! hast thou been brought by the Holy Ghost into such views of thy fallen, ruined, and undone state, as to behold thyself in the depths of sin? And hast thou from thence sent forth the cry of thy soul for pardon, mercy, and peace, through the blood of the cross? And hath thine eye been opened by the same almighty Spirit, to behold Jesus the mercy promised, the propitiation, which God hath set forth for the salvation of sinners? Dust thou know Jesus indeed as the Father’s gift, and that there is salvation in no other, neither is there any other name under heaven given among men, whereby thou mightest be saved? Look up, my soul, and with an eye of faith, even from the deep of sin, cry to the deep of mercy! See! behold! Jesus is with the Father, the advocate, the propitiation, the full ransom for sin! Behold him still wearing the vesture dipped in blood, as if to say, look at these marks, and Know that my blood and righteousness are of eternal efficacy! And under such blessed assurances do thou tell thy God and Father, what thy God and Father hath first told thee, that there is mercy, there is Jesus, his dear and ever blessed Son with him, so that thy redemption is secured. And do thou, my soul, proclaim abroad the glorious tidings, that other poor sinners may also come and find Jesus the mercy promised. Go forth and say, as one of old did, This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. And blessed Lord! cause me to wait for thee, to long for thee, and to be always found watching for thy gracious visits, more than they that wait for the morning, or the thirsty earth for the falling showers! Come, Lord, and refresh my longing soul, and be thou to me all I need, and all I can desire; wisdom and righteousness, sanctification and redemption, that all my glorying may be in thee, O Lord!
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Psa 130:8 And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
Ver. 8. And he shall redeem Israel ] By the value and virtue of Christ’s death, by his merit and Spirit, 1Co 6:11 .
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
redeem. Same as Psa 130:7.
iniquities. Hebrew. ‘avah. App-44. (Isa 38.)
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
he shall redeem: Psa 103:3, Psa 103:4, Mat 1:21, Rom 6:14, Tit 2:14, 1Jo 3:5-8
Reciprocal: Psa 25:22 – General Psa 31:5 – thou Psa 34:22 – redeemeth Psa 39:8 – Deliver Psa 44:26 – redeem Psa 60:11 – Give Psa 72:14 – he shall Psa 107:2 – Let the Psa 111:9 – sent Jer 23:6 – Judah Mic 7:18 – that Mic 7:19 – subdue Luk 24:21 – General