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Posted by Psalms on Sunday, 31 January 2016
Psalms 136:22
Even an heritage unto Israel his servant: for his mercy endureth for ever.
136:22. Even an heritage unto Israel his servant. Repetitions are effective in poetry, and the more so if there be some little variation in them, bringing out into fuller light some point which else had not been noticed. The lands of the heathen kings were given to Israel, the name by which the chosen people are here mentioned for the third time in the psalm, with the addition of the words his servant. The leasehold of Canaan to Israel after the flesh was made dependent upon suit and service rendered to the Lord-of-the-manor by whom the lease was granted. It was a country worth singing about, richly justifying the two stanzas devoted to it. The division of the country by lot, and the laws by which the portions of ground were reserved to the owners and their descendants for a perpetual inheritance, were fit subjects for song. Had other nations enjoyed land-laws which insured to every family a plot of ground for cultivation, much of the present discontent would never have arisen, beggary would soon have become uncommon, and poverty itself would have been rare.
For his mercy endureth for ever. Yes, mercy fights for the land, mercy divides the spoil among its favored ones, and mercy secures each man in his inheritance.
The Treasury of David by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
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