Mazmur 61:7

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

(61-8) kiranya ia bersemayam di hadapan Allah selama-lamanya, titahkanlah kasih setia dan kebenaran menjaga dia.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
(61-8) kiranya ia bersemayam di hadapan Allah selama-lamanya, titahkanlah kasih setia dan kebenaran menjaga dia.

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Contextual Overview

⁵ For thou O Lorde hast hearde my vowes: and hast geuen an heritage vnto those that feare thy name. ⁶ Thou wilt adde dayes vnto the kings dayes: and his yeres shalbe a generation and a generation. ⁷ He shall dwell before the Lorde for euer: O appoynt thy louing mercy and faithfulnes, that thei may preserue him. ⁸ So wyll I sing psalmes vnto thy name: that I may day by day perfourme my vowes.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

abide: Psalms 41:12, Isaiah 9:6, Isaiah 9:7, Luke 1:33, Hebrews 7:21-25, Hebrews 9:24

prepare: Psalms 40:11, Psalms 43:3, Psalms 57:3, Genesis 24:27, Genesis 32:10, Proverbs 20:28, Micah 7:20, Luke 1:54, Luke 1:55

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 15:20 - mercy Psalms 16:5 - thou Psalms 21:7 - For the Psalms 61:4 - abide Psalms 89:24 - But my Psalms 115:1 - for thy mercy Psalms 116:9 - walk Proverbs 14:22 - but Isaiah 16:5 - in mercy Hosea 6:2 - we

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He shall abide before God for ever,.... Or "sit" b; or "may he sit". Being raised from the dead he was received up to heaven into the presence of God, and sat down at his right hand; where he abides for ever, a Priest upon his throne, having an unchangeable priesthood, Hebrews 7:24;

and prepare mercy and truth, [which] may preserve him; which, if literally understood of David, is a prayer that the Lord would show him favour and kindness, and perform his promises to him, whereby his life would be preserved from the plots and, conspiracies of his enemies, and his kingdom be established; or that he might be exalted to exercise mercy towards his subjects, and administer justice, or execute the judgment of truth among them; which would make for the preservation of his person, and the support of his throne and government, Proverbs 20:28. But as the words may be applied to the Messiah, they are to be understood, not of the preservation of his corporeal life while here on earth; but either of the preservation of his people, in whom he lives, through the mercy and truth of God, expressed in the exertion of his power, by which they are preserved unto the heavenly kingdom and glory; or of the security of his kingdom, which not being of this world, is not supported by worldly power and policy, but in a spiritual manner, and by spiritual means; such as mercy, or "grace and truth"; that is, the doctrines of grace and truth, which came by Christ, and are preached by his ministers, and are the means of continuing, promoting, and preserving his kingdom and interest in the world, Or the words may be rendered, "may mercy and the truth of manna keep thee"; the true manna, Christ; see John 6:32; or "mercy and truth, as the manna, keep thee" c; as that was kept in the golden pot, Exodus 16:33; or rather as that kept and sustained the Israelites in the wilderness.

b ישב "sedebit", Tigurine version, Vatablus, Musculus, Cocceius, Michaelis; so Ainsworth; "vel sedeat", Vatablus, Gejerus, Amama. c Vid. Hackman. Praecidan. Sacr. tom. 1. p. 71.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He shall abide before God for ever - That is, perpetually; without danger of change, or of being driven into exile. This may allude, however, to the hope which David had that he would always live with God in a higher world - a world where there would be no danger of change or banishment. His restoration to his home, to his throne, and to the privileges of the sanctuary, he may have regarded as an emblem of his ultimate reception into a peaceful heaven, and his mind may have glanced rapidly from the one to the other. On earth, after his restoration, he would have no fear that he would be banished again; in heaven, of which such a restoration might be regarded as an emblem, there could be no change, no exile.

O prepare mercy and truth - literally, divide, or divide out; then, allot or appoint; and then, make ready or prepare. The prayer is, that God would measure out to him, or impart to him, such favor that this desire of his heart would be realized. On the phrase mercy and truth, see Psalms 25:10, note; Psalms 57:3, note; Psalms 57:10, note.

Which may preserve him - They will preserve him. That is, the manifestation of such mercy and truth would make his permanent occupancy of his throne on earth, and his ultimate reception into heaven, secure.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 61:7. He shall abide before God for ever — Literally, "He shall sit for ever before the faces of God." He shall ever appear in the presence of God for us. And he ever sits at the right hand of the Majesty on high; for he undertook this office after having, by his sacrificial offering, made atonement for our sins.

Prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve him. — As Mediator, his attendants will ever be mercy and truth. He will dispense the mercy of God, and thus fulfil the truth of the various promises and predictions which had preceded his incarnation. There is an obscurity in this clause, חסד ואמת מן ינצרהו chesed veemeth man yintseruhu, owing to the particle מן man, which some translate who or what; and others, number thou, from מנה manah, to count. Houbigant, and he is followed by Bishop Lowth, would read מיהוה miyehovah, Mercy and truth from Jehovah shall preserve him. The Anglo-Saxon has, [A.S.] Mildheartedness, and soothfastness his, who seeketh? which is nearly the rendering of the old Psalter: Mercy and sothfastnes of him, wha sall seke? Dr. Kennicott says, מן man is a Syriasm; and should be translated quaesoutinam, I beseech thee, - I wish, - O that! On this very ground Coverdale appears to have translated, O let thy lovynge mercy and faithfulnes preserve him! The sense I have given above I conceive to be the true one.