The Bible Commentaries and Others: Psalms 147 v 2

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Posted by Psalms on Monday, 18 January 2016

Psalms 147:2

The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.

147:2. The LORD doth build up Jerusalem. His grace, wisdom, and power are all seen in the formation and establishment of the chosen seat of his worship; once a city with material walls, but now a church composed of spiritual stones.

He gathereth together the outcasts of Israel, and thus he repairs the waste places, and causes the former desolations to be inhabited. This may relate to Nehemiah, but there is not reason why it should not with equal fitness be referred to David, who was once an outcast but became the means of building up Jerusalem. Spiritually we see the hand of God in the edification of the church, and in the ingathering of sinners. What are people under conviction of sin but outcasts from God, from holiness, from heaven, and even from hope? Who could make citizens of them in Christ Jesus save the Lord our God? This deed of love he is constantly performing. Therefore let the song begin at Jerusalem our home, and let every living stone in the spiritual city echo the strain; for it is the Lord who has brought again his banished ones, and builded them together in Zion.

Excerpt from:

The Treasury of David by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)