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												Verse 1-2Psalms 67:1-2. God be merciful 
												to us — Thy people Israel. And 
												cause his face to shine upon us 
												— As thou hast hid thy face, or 
												withdrawn the tokens of thy 
												favour from us, so do thou now 
												manifest them to us. That thy 
												way may be known upon earth — 
												The way wherein thou requirest 
												men to walk, the way of thy 
												precepts, the way of truth, or 
												the true religion; that by the 
												peculiar and distinguishing 
												tokens of thy favour to us, the 
												heathen world may be convinced 
												of the truth and importance of 
												our religion, may be induced to 
												renounce their idols and their 
												vices, to believe in thee the 
												only living and true God, and 
												embrace thy worship and service, 
												expecting no good but from thee. 
												Thy saving health — Hebrew, 
												ישׁועתךְ, thy salvation, termed, 
												God’s way, in the preceding 
												clause, and both expressions, 
												taken together, signify the way 
												of salvation, which the psalmist 
												desires may be known among all 
												nations. This the ancient and 
												godly Jews expected would be the 
												case at the coming of the 
												Messiah, who is called God’s 
												salvation, and also the way, the 
												truth, and the life, Luke 2:30; 
												John 14:6. And so the sense of 
												the passage is, Deal thus 
												graciously with thy people 
												Israel, that the Gentile world 
												may at last be allured to unite 
												themselves to them, to become 
												proselytes to their religion, 
												and receive their Messiah for 
												their King and Saviour, when he 
												shall be manifested, saying, We 
												will go with you, for we have 
												heard that God is with you, 
												Zechariah 8:23.
 
 Verses 3-5
 Psalms 67:3-5. Let all the 
												people praise thee — O hasten 
												that time when the Gentiles 
												shall forsake their dumb idols, 
												and serve and praise thee, the 
												living God, as they have 
												abundant cause to do. O let the 
												nations be glad — For thy great 
												mercy to them in rescuing them 
												from the idolatries and 
												superstitions, the errors and 
												vices of their fathers, and in 
												bringing them to the knowledge 
												of thyself, the true God, and of 
												eternal life. For thou shall 
												judge the people — Shalt rule 
												them, as it is explained in the 
												next clause; righteously — Which 
												is the great commendation of any 
												government, and the greatest 
												argument and encouragement to 
												the Gentiles to put themselves 
												under the government of God; and 
												the rather, because they had 
												found by experience the misery 
												of living under the unrighteous 
												and tyrannical government of 
												Satan, and of their idolatrous 
												and heathen rulers. And govern 
												the nations — Hebrew, תנחם, 
												tanchem, shall lead them, 
												namely, gently, as a shepherd 
												doth his sheep, or a general his 
												soldiers, and not rule them with 
												rigour, as other lords have 
												done. “Thou shall hereafter 
												govern them by righteous and 
												good laws, who were before under 
												the government of the prince of 
												this world, and had nothing to 
												guide them but some few laws and 
												tendencies of nature, or some 
												precepts of an old tradition, 
												which are now almost 
												obliterated.”
 
 Verse 6-7
 Psalms 67:6-7. Then shall the 
												earth yield her increase — When 
												the inhabitants of the earth 
												shall be converted to the 
												worship and service of the true 
												God, he will take away his curse 
												from the earth, and cause it to 
												yield them abundance of all 
												sorts of fruits. Under which one 
												blessing all other blessings, 
												both temporal and spiritual, are 
												comprehended. And God, even our 
												own God — Who is Israel’s God, 
												in a peculiar manner, by that 
												covenant which he hath made with 
												us; shall bless us — Confer 
												still further and greater 
												blessings upon us at the coming 
												of the Messiah, when all the 
												ends of the earth shall fear him 
												— Shall remember and turn unto 
												the Lord, and worship before 
												him, Psalms 22:27.
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