Teks -- Psalms 89:14 (NET)

89:14 Equity and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loyal love and faithfulness characterize your rule.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Psa 89:14 - Justice and judgment

Justice in judging.

JFB: Psa 89:8-14

To illustrate His power and faithfulness examples are cited from history. His control of the sea (the most mighty and unstable object in nature), and of Egypt (Psa 87:4), the first great foe of Israel (subjected to utter helplessness from pride and insolence), are specimens. At the same time, the whole frame of nature founded and sustained by Him, Tabor and Hermon for "east and west," and "north and south," together representing the whole world, declare the same truth as to His attributes.

Clarke: Psa 89:14 - Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne

Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne - The throne - the government, of God, is founded in righteousness and judgment. He knows what is right; he sees what is right; he does what is right; and his judgments are ever according to righteousness. His decisions are all oracles, no one of them is ever reversed

Clarke: Psa 89:14 - Mercy and truth shall go before thy face

Mercy and truth shall go before thy face - These shall be the heralds that shall announce the coming of the Judge. His truth binds him to fulfill all his declarations; and his mercy shall be shown to all those who have fled for refuge to the hope that is set before them in the Gospel. See the notes on Psa 85:10, Psa 85:11.

Calvin: Psa 89:14 - Righteousness and judgement are the place of thy throne

14.Righteousness and judgement are the place of thy throne These encomiums serve more effectually to confirm the hope of true believers than if the Divine power alone had been presented to our view. Whenever mention is made of God, it behoves us to apply our minds principally to those attributes of his nature which are specially fitted for establishing our faith, that we may not lose ourselves by vainly indulging in subtile speculations, by which foolish men, although they may minister to their own mental recreation, make no advances to the right understanding of what God really is. The prophet, therefore, in allusion to the insignia and pomp of kings, declares that righteousness and judgment are the pillars of the throne on which God sits conspicuous in sovereign state, and that mercy and truth are, as it were, his pursuivants; as if he had said, “The ornaments with which God is invested, instead of being a robe of purple, a diadem, or a scepter, are, that he is the righteous and impartial judge of the world, a merciful father, and a faithful protector of his people.” Earthly kings, from their having nothing in themselves to procure for them authority, and to give them dignity, ⁵³³ are under the necessity of borrowing elsewhere what will invest them therewith; but God having in himself an all-sufficiency, and standing in no need of any other helps, exhibits to us the splendor of his own image in his righteousness, mercy, and truth.

TSK: Psa 89:14 - Justice // habitation // mercy

Justice : Psa 45:6, Psa 45:7, Psa 97:2, Psa 99:4, Psa 145:17; Deu 32:4; Rev 15:3

habitation : or, establishment, Pro 16:12

mercy : Psa 89:2, Psa 85:13; Joh 1:17

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Poole: Psa 89:14 - Justice and judgment // Shall go before thy face

Justice and judgment i.e. just judgment, or justice in judging, as Jer 9:24 22:3 . A common figure, called hendiaduo . The habitation ; or, the basis or foundation , as this word is used Ezr 2:68 3:3 Psa 97:2 104:5 ; the groundwork of all his proceedings, and the stability of his throne and government. For God could not be the Judge and Ruler of the world if he did not right, Gen 18:25 : compare Pro 16:12 . The sense and scope of this verse may be this, Though thy present dispensations, in breaking thy covenant with David, and in suffering his posterity and thine own people to be devoured by such as are much more wicked than they, be a great deep and secret, yet I rest satisfied that they are just. In like manner the prophet fortifies himself under the like thoughts, Jer 12:1 .

Shall go before thy face as thy harbingers and companions, wheresoever thou goest. Thou art neither unmerciful nor unfaithful in any of thy dealings.

Haydock: Psa 89:14 - We are

We are. Hebrew, "Fill us." (Montanus) ---

But the psalmist feels interiorly, that his petition has been granted. (Berthier) ---

The prospect of a glorious immortality fills us with hope in proportion to our sufferings for the truth. (Worthington)

Gill: Psa 89:14 - Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne // mercy and truth shall go before thy face

Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne,.... The seat and throne on which he sits; all the administrations of his kingly power in the government of the world, in the salvation of his people, and in the punishment of his enemies, being according to the strict rules of justice and judgment: or "the preparation of thy throne" ^d; all that the Lord does according to the counsel of his will; and these counsels were of old, and were formed in strict justice and judgment, and were a preparation for his future government in providence and grace: or "the establishment of thy throne" ^e; the throne of an earthly king is established by righteousness; and so the throne of God, and of Christ, is ordered and established with justice and judgment in the exercise of righteousness for evermore, Pro 16:12.

mercy and truth shall go before thy face; be and appear wherever he is; all his ways are mercy and truth, Psa 25:10, "mercy" in pardoning and saving sinners that come unto him by Christ; and "truth" in performing all his purposes and promises; and these make the joyful sound next mentioned.