We begin here a new sphere. Israel restored is the occasion of the display of all the characters of God's dealing with the world, as to His righteousness and judgment; and, by the introduction of the personal history of Christ in His rejection and exaltation, of deeper principles of His dealings relative to the Person of Jesus as the Center of all economy. It is Jewish, but Jewish as to circumstances which concern all mankind. Thanks to Jehovah characterize its introduction, proclaimed by restored Israel—witness that His mercy, their well-known song, in the end, endures forever; verses 2 and 3 call especially for this praise in the circumstances of Israel. The Psalm itself speaks of the restoration, and though there was a similar deliverance from Egypt, that shall be no more mentioned, for they shall not say "The Lord liveth who brought them up out of the land of Egypt." "They wandered " therefore (v. 4) I take to be on their return in the latter day—they had been (v. 10) sitting "in darkness"—for (v. 16) "He hath broken the gates of brass"; so of their tossings on the sea.
32. From this verse is what happens to them after they find their place in the Land; and though they are minished and brought low, yet all iniquity, in result, shall stop her mouth. Those who observe and understand these things will, in spite of and even through all the miseries of Israel (as men) understand the loving-kindness of the Lord. But His dealings are a pattern of instruction for the children of men in those days, and they are called (vv. 31, 32) to execute this praise in Israel in the assembly joining with them.