Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 130:7
Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD [there is] mercy, and with him [is] plenteous redemption.
7. Hope, Israel, in Jehovah,
For with Jehovah Is lovingklndness.
The Psalmist exhorts the people, or if the preceding verses are taken as the words of the congregation, Israel exhorts itself, to wait in hope. Cp. Psa 131:3.
plenteous redemption ] Or, redemption in abundance, manifold ways and means of effecting Israel’s deliverance, according to the abundance of His lovingkindness and compassion. Observe how the thought that God’s manifold mercy and patience have not been exhausted by Israel’s persistent rebellion runs through the confession in Nehemiah 9; Neh 9:17; Neh 9:19; Neh 9:27-28; Neh 9:30-31; Neh 9:35. Cp. Isa 43:25; Isa 55:7.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Let Israel hope in the Lord – In such circumstances of affliction and distress, let not the people of God despair. In the darkest night, in calamities deep and prolonged, let not those who love God despair. The morning will dawn; the light will break in the east; deliverance and joy will come. The Hebrew here is, Trust, O Israel, in the Lord. The design of the Psalmist seems to be, from his own experience, to persuade others – the afflicted people of God – to put their trust in Him in whom he had himself hoped. From the very depths of affliction, guilt, and almost despair, he had looked to the Lord: encouraged and persuaded by his example, he would now entreat the people of God everywhere and always, in like manner, to trust him.
For with the Lord there is mercy – He is merciful, and in his mercy we may trust.
And with him is plenteous redemption – It is ample; it is full; it abounds. It is not limited; it is not exhausted; it cannot be exhausted. So we may always feel when we come before God, that his mercy is ample for all the needs of all the sinful and the suffering; that the provisions of his grace are unexhausted and inexhaustible. Applying this, as we may, to the work of the Saviour, we may feel that the redemption which is in him is adequate to the needs of a world, and that although numberless million have been saved by it, yet that it is still as rich, as full, and as free as it was in the beginning; as the ocean, though from the beginning of the world it has supplied the materials for rain and dew to water the hills, the vales, the continents, and the islands, is still full; as the light of the sun, though for thousands of ages it has poured its light on the planets, and on all the vast space between itself and those orbs, and has sent out its light into the vast regions beyond, still shines with undiminished splendor, and pours its floods of day and of glory on all those worlds.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Psa 130:7
Let Israel hope in the Lord.
Israels hope; or, the centre of the target
When we meet with a man who has been in special trouble, and he has escaped from it, we are anxious to know how it came to pass, in order that, if we are east into similar trial, we also may resort to the same door of hope. The other day you saw a man blind, begging ill the street, and now he has an eye bright as that which sparkles on the face of a gazelle, and you cry in astonishment Tell me who was the oculist that operated on your eyes; for I may be in a like case, and I should be glad to know where to go? Here, then, we have a gale of knowledge opened before us. This psalm is called De Profundis; its teaching is not only profound, but practical.
I. In obtaining Gospel blessings the first exercises of faith must be towards God in Christ Jesus, and not towards the blessings themselves.
1. This is the most natural order which faith can follow. Look first to the Giver, and then to the gift. Look for the Helper, and then for the help.
2. This is the necessary order–first to Christ, and then to His yoke, and to His peace.
3. It is also the easiest order. Do not try to believe in pardon in the abstract, but in Jesus the Sacrifice and Saviour, who has once for all appeared to put away sin. By looking to Him you will be saved; and what is easier than to look?
4. I believe that, in every case wherein the soul finds peace, this is the actual order. We may go about after pardon, renewal, and holiness, but we find no rest unto our souls while hunting for these. As a matter of fact, we look unto Him and are lightened, and not by any other means.
II. All exercises of faith in reference to other things must be in connection with the Lord. As the stars called the Pointers always point to the pole-star, so must our faith ever look to God in Christ Jesus. Having begun with Jesus, our faith must not look elsewhere. I would do nothing without Jesus. I would not even wish to repent except my eye were upon the Cross. I would not hope to think a holy thought except as my soul still gazed upon. Jesus my all. Away, away with every idea of mercy except it be mercy received through Jesus, for He alone is full of grace, and of His fulness must we receive. Mercy flows through Christ alone. So is it with plenteous redemption. What a grand utterance that is–plenteous redemption! Is there not rare music in the sound l It means plenteous forgiveness for plenteous sin, through a price paid, a ransom given. In Christ only can you find this. With Him is plenteous redemption. Do not dream of finding redemption in ordinances, in prayers, in tears, or in anything but the life and death and person of the Son of God. Plenteous redemption. Why, that means deliverance from the bondage of many lusts, freedom from the thraldom of strong passions, a ransom of captives from fierce taskmasters. (C. H. Spurgeon.)
With Him is plenteous redemption.—
Plenteous redemption
As the mighty ocean, while, from the beginning of the world, it has supplied rain and dew to water the hills and vales, and continents and islands, is undiminished; as the light of the sun, though for thousands of ages it has brightened the planets, and the broad expanse of heaven, still pours its dazzling radiance on countless worlds, so with the benefits of the Saviours death.
I. This redemption is ample and unlimited. St. Paul was certainly not deceiving Christians when he taught them to pray for all men (1Ti 2:1), which would be mere mockery, if all might not come to a knowledge of the truth. The Prayer Book has not been leading us astray when it has made us say so many times, and with such earnestness of heart, That it may please Thee to have mercy upon all men. If Christ died only for the elect, where would be the propriety of such petitions?
II. It cannot be exhausted, and provision has been made for each one of us. One of the lay preachers who accomplished so much good in Scotland amplified and re-echoed the sentiment–It was not a live lamb that was tied to the door-posts of the Israelites in Egypt; only its blood was sprinkled over them. It is not the life of Christ that saves, nor imitations of His life; but His death, His blood. (J. N. Norton.)
Plenteous redemption
I. Redemption implies captivity to the penalty and power of sin; release into safety and liberty; and the ransom of the obedience and suffering of Jesus. Faith secures release by appropriating the work of Christ, which abolishes penalty, and the work of the Holy Spirit, which regenerates and so changes the whole nature as to deliver from penalty.
II. This redemption is plenteous.
1. In the breadth of forgiveness, covering all offenders and offences, and removing them out of the sight of God.
2. In covering the breadth of mans need, Christ saves to the uttermost (Heb 7:25). Mind, heart, conscience, and will all purged by the power of redeeming blood.
3. In the freedom and fulness of infinite grace such a price–such love–such provision even for non-partakers.
III. It is with him. God the Father devised, the Son executes, the Spirit applies the scheme. No hope or help in man for himself or fellow-man. (Homiletic Review.)
Plenteous redemption
Redemption is a word which has gladdened many ears, when there was no heavenly sound in its blessed chime. Apart from any theological use of it, the word is a very sweet one, and has been melodious to many hearts. In those days when piracy was carried on continually along the coast of Africa, when our fellow-Christian subjects were caught by corsairs, and carried away captive, you can well understand how the burdened soul of the manacled slave, chained to the oar of his galley, was gladdened by the hope that possibly there would be redemption. His cruel master, who had forced him into his possession, would not willingly emancipate him; but a rumour came, that in some distant nation they had raised a sum of money to purchase the freedom of slaves–that some wealthy merchant had dedicated of his substance to buy back his fellow-countrymen; that the king himself upon his throne had promised to give a liberal redemption that the captives among the Moors might return to their homes. Truly I can suppose the hours would run happily along, and the dreariness of their toil would be assuaged, when once that word redemption had sounded in their ears. So with our fellow-subjects and our fellow-men, who once were slaves in our West Indian settlements. We can well conceive that to their lips the word redemption must have been a very pleasing song. O there are many sonnets in that one word, redemption! Now, ye who have sold for nought your glorious heritage; ye who have been carried bondslaves into Satans dominion; ye who have worn the fetters of guilt and groaned under them; ye who have smarted beneath the lash of the law; what the news of redemption has been to slaves and captives, that will it be to you. It will cheer your souls and gladden your spirits, and more especially so when that rich adjective is coupled with it plenteous redemption.
I. Redemption. What has Christ redeemed? His redemption is a very compendious redemption. He has redeemed many things; He has redeemed the souls of His people; He has redeemed the bodies of His people; He has redeemed the original inheritance which man lost in Adam; He has redeemed, in the last place, the world, considered in a certain sense–in the sense in which He will have the world at last. The whole creation, said Paul, groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now; waiting for what? waiting for the redemption; and by the redemption I understand that this world shall be washed of all her sin; her curse shall be removed, her stains taken away, and this world shall be as fair as when God first struck her from His mind. This Christ has redeemed; this, Christ shall, and most assuredly must, have.
II. plenteous redemption.
1. It is plenteous when we consider the millions that have been redeemed.
2. It is plenteous, again, if we consider the sins of all who are redeemed. S. Remember, again, that this plenteous redemption is plenteous because it is enough for all the distresses of all the saints. Your wants are almost infinite; but this atonement is quite so. (C. H. Spurgeon.)
Fuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell
Verse 7. Let Israel hope in the Lord] This, to hope for salvation, is their duty and their interest. But what reason is there for this hope? A twofold reason:-
1. With the Lord there is mercy] hachesed, THAT mercy, the fund, the essence of mercy.
2. And with him is plenteous redemption.] veharabbah immo peduth; and that abundant redemption, that to which there is none like, the Fountain of redemption, the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world. The article , both in harabbah and hachesed, is very emphatic.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Let Israel; every true Israelite, by the encouragement of mine example.
Plenteous redemption; abundantly sufficient for all persons who shall accept it upon Gods terms, and for the remission of all sins; and therefore here is good ground of hope for all contrite and returning sinners.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
7, 8. Let Israel, &c.thatis, All are invited to seek and share divine forgiveness.
from all his iniquitiesor,”punishments of them” (Ps40:12, &c.).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Let Israel hope in the Lord,…. The psalmist having himself hope in the Lord and in his word, through a view of forgiveness with him, exhorts and encourages others to do so likewise, even every Israelite indeed; and such may comfortably hope in him for salvation, which was designed, contrived, promised, and now wrought out for sinners, the chief of sinners, and to be had freely; and the Gospel declaration is, that whosoever believes in Christ shall be saved; as well as for the remission of sin, which God has promised in covenant; proclaimed in Christ, whom he has sent to obtain it, and exalted to give it; and has declared in the Gospel that whoever believes in him shall have it; and also for eternal life and happiness, which is the gift of God through Christ; is in the hands of Christ, and of which the Spirit of God is the earnest and pledge. Arguments encouraging hope follow:
for with the Lord [there is] mercy; which is natural and essential to him; as displayed, is either general, and over all his works, and towards all his creatures; or special, only shown to whom he will: this flows through Christ, and is very large and abundant; and appears in various instances, in the covenant, in the mission of Christ, and redemption by him; in regeneration, the forgiveness of sins, and in salvation; as well as it is bestowed on innumerable objects: and this nerves much to encourage hope, since there is plenty of it, and God is plenteous in it; and it is kept for many, for thousands, and even the vilest of sinners, share in it; God has set up a throne of grace and mercy for men to apply to, and he delights in showing mercy, and in those that hope in it: or, there is “grace” k with him; an abundance of it in his heart; a fulness of it in his son; and large aboundings of it through Christ, in conversion, pardon, and other things;
and with him [is] plenteous redemption; the purpose of it was in him; the scheme of it was drawn by him; the covenant of it was made with Christ; the promise of it was published, and now the thing itself is done, and is with Christ the author of it: and this is “plenteous”, if we consider the number of persons redeemed from among men, being such as no man can number; what of them is redeemed, even all of them, their souls and bodies; what they are redeemed from, from all sin, the law, its curse and condemnation, from death and hell, from Satan and all enemies; the several blessings included in it, or connected with it, pardon of sin, justification of persons, adoption, sanctification, and eternal life; the great price paid for it, the blood, the life of Christ, yea, himself: and the large display of love, grace, and mercy, wisdom, power, justice, and holiness, made in it. Kimchi interprets this of redemption from Egypt, Babylon, &c.
k “gratia”, Cocceius, Michaelis.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
7. But let Israel hope in Jehovah. After having spoken of himself, and exhibited in his own person an example for all to follow, he now applies the doctrine to the whole body of the Church. It is to be noticed that the foundation upon which he would have the hope of all the godly to rest is the mercy of God, the source from which redemption springs. In the first clause he reminds them that although they bring with them no worth or merits of their own, it ought to suffice them that God is merciful. This mutual relation between the faith of the Church and the free goodness of God is to be attentively marked, to the end we may know that all those who, depending upon their own merits, persuade themselves that God will be their rewarder, have not their hope regulated according to the rule of Scripture. From this mercy, as from a fountain, the Prophet derives redemption; for there is no other cause which moves God to manifest himself as the redeemer of his people but his mercy. He describes this redemption as plenteous, that the faithful, even when reduced to the last extremity, may sustain themselves from the consideration that there are in the hand of God many and incredible means by which to save them. This Psalm may have been composed at a time when the Church was in so very afflicted a condition as might have discouraged one and all, had not the infinite greatness of the power of God served as a buckler to defend them. The true use of the present doctrine is, first, that the faithful, even when plunged in the deepest gulfs, should not doubt of their deliverance being in the hand of God, who, whenever necessity shall require, will be able to find means, which are now hidden and unknown to us; and, secondly, that they should hold it as certain, that as often as the Church shall be afflicted he will manifest himself to be her deliverer. To this truth the sentence immediately following refers.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(7) Let Israel.Rather (as in Prayer-Book), Hope Israel in Jehovah. It is the watchword of faith addressed to the nation. (Comp. Psa. 131:3 for a rarer form of it.)
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
7, 8. Most fitly, therefore, does the trusting poet call on Israel also to fully trust in Jehovah, who not only showeth mercy, but plenteous redemption. He multiplieth to show mercy, as the Hebrew reads, in his manner of deliverance, saving not only from punishment, but iniquity, the cause of punishment.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
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THE DUTY OF HOPING IN GOD
Psa 130:7-8. Let Israel hope in the Lord: for with the Lord there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption. And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
THAT advice which flows from experience is at all times most worthy of our attention. In this view the words of our text claim peculiar regard. David, in the psalm before us, records a very signal deliverance which he had recently experienced, probably from an overwhelming sense of his own guilt and corruption: and, having informed us what methods he had used to obtain deliverance, and how effectual they had proved for his restoration to happiness, he recommends the adoption of them to all the people of God under all difficulties whatsoever; and assures them, that they shall not in any instance fail of success: Let Israel, &c.
He sets before us,
I.
Our duty
Hope in God, as men generally use the term, is nothing more than an unfounded expectation that God will save us, whatever be our state, and whatever be our conduct. But a scriptural hope implies a suitable regard to the things we hope for, and to him in whom our hope is placed. It implies,
1.
That we pray to him with fervour
[This was united with the Psalmists hope [Note: ver. 1, 2.]: and it must also be with ours [Note: Mat 7:7-8.]. To pretend to hope in God while we neglect to spread our wants before him, is the grossest hypocrisy, and the most fatal delusion [Note: Eze 36:37.].]
2.
That we wait for him with patience
[It was in this manner that David exercised his hope [Note: ver. 5, 6.]. Nor can we act otherwise, if we be sincere in our profession [Note: Rom 8:25.]. To be impatient, is an unequivocal mark of unbelief, and despondency [Note: Isa 28:16. 1Sa 13:11-12.]. But to wait patiently the Lords leisure, is the office and evidence of faith and hope [Note: Hab 2:3.].]
3.
That we depend on him with steadfastness
[The promises of God to those who seek him, must be the ground of our hope [Note: ver. 5.]. We are not to regard difficulties of any kind, as though they could prove any obstacle to God. However circumstances, both within and without, may seem to justify despair, we must hope beyond and against hope [Note: , Rom 4:18. Job 13:15. Isa 1:10.], assured that, as nothing is impossible with God, so not one jot or tittle of his word shall ever fail.]
This duty being of infinite importance, and of universal obligation, let us consider,
II.
Our encouragement to perform it
If we look inward, we shall find nothing but discouragement. But if, with David, we look to God, we may find abundant encouragement,
1.
In his attributes
[While justice bears a frowning aspect, mercy smiles on the repenting sinner. God has opened a way for the exercise of his mercy in perfect consistency with the demands of justice; and to exercise it is his delight [Note: Mic 7:18.]. This attribute is as essential to his nature as wisdom, or power, or any other [Note: Exo 34:6-7.]. Nor needs he to have it excited by a view of our misery (much less by any meritorious services of ours;) it is ever with him: and is ready to manifest itself towards all those who call upon him. [Note: Rom 10:12.]]
2.
In his works
[Redemption is the crown of all his works: and this also is with him, that he may impart it to those who groan under their sore bondage. Yea, with him is plenteous redemption: he himself, as our near kinsman, (bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh [Note: Eph 5:30.]) has the right of redemption vested in him [Note: Lev 25:25; Lev 25:47-49.]: and, having ability to pay the price, he will discharge our debt, and restore us, not only to liberty, but also to the inheritance which we have so basely alienated.]
3.
In his word
[The declaration of his determined purpose by an inspired writer, it equivalent to an express promise. And, if the extent and certainty of this promise be considered, what an encouragement will it afford us to hope in God! There is no limitation whatever to the promise, provided, like Israel of old, we wrestle with God for the performance of it [Note: Gen 32:24-28.]. However numerous and inveterate our iniquities may be, they shall all be pardoned, and all subdued [Note: Isa 1:18.].]
Application
1.
To prevent any abuse of this subject, we shall guard it
[The repetition of the name Israel distinctly marks the characters to whom the text is more immediately to be applied. It is the praying, waiting, and depending sinner that is exhorted to hope in God: and it is he alone who can expect redemption at the hands of God. Let such therefore see their duty and their privilege: but let those who live in the habitual neglect of God Know, that their hope is as a spiders web, that shall soon be swept away with the besom of destruction [Note: Job 8:13-14.].]
2.
To impress the subject more deeply on our minds, we shall enforce it
[The advice here given is the most suitable that can be given, and if followed, will be productive of the greatest happiness. Were any of us directed to indulge a hope from our own endeavours, we should soon perceive the folly of such advice. Every day and hour would bring us fresh occasion for despair. But in God there is nothing wanting: he has the right, the power, and the will to redeem us. Nor, if we trust in him, shall we ever be confounded [Note: Isa 45:17.].
Let us therefore not limit either the mercy or power of our God; but putting away all self-rightcous hopes [Note: Php 3:3.], or unbelieving fears [Note: Psa 42:11.], let us repose an unlimited confidence in our merciful and faithful Redeemer.]
Fuente: Charles Simeon’s Horae Homileticae (Old and New Testaments)
We may consider these blessed words in a double sense. First, as the encouragement which one poor sinner may be supposed to give to others, who having experienced divine mercy himself, goes forth and proclaims it abroad. It is as if he had said, “Let Israel hope, let every poor sinner, in whose heart God the Spirit hath put a concern for his salvation, hope; and where a cry to God to obtain it in Christ is put into the soul, let everyone of this description hope; for Jesus is in heaven: Jesus the propitiation, whom God hath set forth, is there. I have found redemption in his blood, and I have found it plenteous redemption indeed to my soul: and therefore let none despond, let not the greatest sinner doubt; for I, the chief of sinners, have experienced it. Let Israel hope in the Lord.” But if we consider it in another sense, as the precept of God himself, the words will he equally sweet. Christ is thus proclaimed as the One all-sufficient ordinance of heaven. It is of Jehovah’s own providing; mercy is with him; Christ our passover, sacrificed for us, is with him; and it is Jehovah himself that speaks thus to a poor sinner, Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom, Job 33:24 . So that there is Jesus, the promised mercy, the first born in the womb of mercy, yea, the very mercy of mercies; He, the Lord our righteousness is with Jehovah, the sinner’s surety and ransom. And this redemption in his blood, is full redemption, an all-sufficient redemption, plenteous redemption! And He shall redeem Israel from all his sins, not from one only, or ten, or ten thousand, but all. Hence his name is J ESUS, for he shall save his people from their sins.
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Psa 130:7 Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD [there is] mercy, and with him [is] plenteous redemption.
Ver. 7. Let Israel hope in the Lord ] Hope and yet fear, as Psa 130:4 (with a filial fear); fear, and yet hope.
Plenteous redemption
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
mercy = lovingkindness, or grace.
plenteous redemption. Not only from the king of Assyria (Isa 37), but from “the king of terrors”. redemption. Hebrew. padah. See notes on Exo 13:13.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Psa 130:7-8
Psa 130:7-8
“O Israel, hope in Jehovah;
For with Jehovah there is lovingkindness,
And with him is plenteous redemption.
And he will redeem Israel
From all his iniquities.”
“O Israel, hope in Jehovah” (Psa 130:7). Such a plea as this for Israel to hope in the Lord is the equivalent of reporting that the nation of Israel at that time was certainly not doing so, else the word would have been that, “Israel hopes in Jehovah.”
The revelation here is that the devout, God-fearing psalmist desired that his whole nation would also turn to the Lord and seek his forgiveness.
“He will redeem Israel from all his iniquities” (Psa 130:8). This was not an unconditional promise. No promise of forgiveness and redemption to any person whomsoever, either in the Old Testament or the New Testament, was ever unconditional. The condition here is stated in the first clause. Let Israel hope in Jehovah, instead of hoping in their godless kings, their unbelieving Sanhedrin, their God-robbing priesthood, their hair-splitting Pharisees, and all the rest of the spiritual crutches upon which they attempted to walk. Let Israel hope in Jehovah by trusting his word and obeying it – then, and only then, will God redeem Israel from all of his iniquity.
By extension, God still promises to “Redeem Israel from all his iniquity,” meaning the New Israel of God, which is the Church; but that promise is also conditional. “He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved” (Mar 16:16).
E.M. Zerr:
Psa 130:7. All true hope is in the Lord; any other will be disappointing. And what man receives from Him will be on the basis of divine mercy, not human merit.
Psa 130:8. The redemption coming from God is complete and based on his mercies. Redemption from all his iniquities means that all redemption that Israel obtains must come from the Lord and not from any human source.
Fuente: Old and New Testaments Restoration Commentary
redemption (See Scofield “Isa 59:20”). See Scofield “Exo 14:30”.
Fuente: Scofield Reference Bible Notes
Let Israel: Psa 40:3, Psa 71:5, Psa 115:9-13, Psa 131:1, Psa 131:3, Zep 3:12
for with: Psa 130:4, Psa 86:5, Psa 86:15, Isa 55:7, Rom 5:20, Rom 5:21, Rom 8:24, Eph 1:7, Eph 1:8, 1Ti 2:5, 1Ti 2:6, Heb 10:35, 1Jo 2:1, 1Jo 2:2, Rev 5:9
Reciprocal: 1Ch 21:13 – great Neh 13:22 – spare me Psa 44:26 – redeem Psa 78:7 – set Psa 103:8 – merciful Psa 111:9 – sent Psa 119:124 – Deal Jer 23:6 – Judah Lam 3:21 – therefore Lam 3:24 – therefore Eze 33:10 – how Dan 9:9 – To the Lord Mic 7:18 – that Mat 1:21 – for Luk 14:22 – and yet Luk 18:13 – God Act 13:38 – that Rom 6:14 – sin Phi 4:19 – according Tit 3:5 – according
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
PLENTEOUS REDEMPTION
With Him is plenteous redemption.
Psa 130:7
The word redemption is used very frequently in two senses. In the common language of good books it sometimes means the same as atonement, as in the Catechism: I believe in God the Son, who hath redeemed me and all mankind. In the Old Testament, and sometimes in the New, it means deliverance, as in St. Luk 21:28 : Your redemption draweth nigh. When applied to the sacred work of the Lord Jesus Christ, it generally means deliverance through atonement. Thus understood, it means both atonement and deliverance.
I. With Him there is plenteous atonement.Man has always been endeavouring to find some atonement for his sin, and has always failed, but we have received a perfect atonement in Him; it is plenteous. (1) Plenteous to cover the sins of the whole world. (2) Plenteous to cover all the sins of each one.
II. With Him is plenteous deliverance.(1) A deliverance of the soul. As the Great Deliverer, He is completing His work in us. He has not promised to do it at once, by one single blow, but He has already set us free from the dominion of sin. (2) Deliverance of the body. St. Paul was looking for the redemption of the body, and taught those who have the firstfruits of the Spirit to do the same. For the Lord Jesus does not despise the body. He knows that a weak body cannot make a strong mental or spiritual effort. But He can deliver, and He will. He can heal all our sicknesses, and is sure to do so if it is best. But whatever He does now, He is sure in the end to deliver the body as well as the soul, so that the time is most certainly coming when our whole man, the body being redeemed from death and the soul from sin, shall stand perfect, spotless, and immortal before His throne.
Canon Hoare.
Illustration
Need we scruple to find a large measure of truth in the instinct which has led more than half of Christendom to use the 130th Psalm at funerals? Over all is that strange refrain, full of a longing like that of watchers looking for the break of dawn in some dark sky.
Fuente: Church Pulpit Commentary
Psa 130:7-8. Let Israel hope in the Lord Every true Israelite, every one that devotes himself to God, being encouraged by my example. For with the Lord there is mercy Not only inherent in his nature, but ready to be exercised in pardoning and saving every penitent sinner. And with him is plenteous redemption Abundantly sufficient for all persons who will accept it upon Gods terms, and for the remission of, and deliverance from, all sins; and therefore here is good ground of hope for all contrite and returning sinners. And he The Lord, either God the Father, by his Son, or the Son of God, by his blood; shall redeem Israel Israel, according to the spirit; all those that turn to God in repentance and faith, and become Israelites indeed, in whom there is no guile; from all his iniquities From the guilt, and power, and defilement of sin, and from all its consequences. See here, says Henry, 1st, The nature of this redemption; it is redemption from sin, from all sin; and therefore can be no other but that eternal redemption, of which Jesus Christ became the author; for it is he that saves his people from their sins, Mat 1:21; that redeems them from all iniquity, Tit 2:14; and turns away ungodliness from Jacob, Rom 11:26. 2d, The riches of this redemption; it is plenteous; there is an all-sufficient fulness of merit and grace in the Redeemer, enough for all, enough for each; enough for me, says the believer. Redemption from sin includes redemption from all other evils, and therefore is a plenteous redemption. Reader, see thou do not rest short of this redemption; seek it with all thy heart, by faith and prayer, and thou wilt assuredly find it.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
130:7 Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD [there is] {d} mercy, and with him [is] plenteous redemption.
(d) He shows to whom the mercy of God belongs, that is, Israel, to the Church and not the reprobate.
Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes
God’s people should put their hope in Yahweh, in their present distress, because He is loyal in His love, and He will finally provide complete redemption. Ultimate deliverance was sure in the future, and this was to be the ground of the Israelites’ confidence.
Today, God’s redeemed saints can call to Him out of the depths of their affliction, too. We can find encouragement in the fact that God has forgiven us all sins past, present, and future. However, we can also look forward to our full, ultimate redemption when we see Him. Until then, we should hope in the Lord, as a watchman waiting for the dawning of our new day, namely: our glorification.