Ps. 60:0 Shushan-eduth: this, like the rest, seems to be the name of an instrument, or song, or tune, then well known, but now quite unknown and forgotten; it may be and is by some rendered, the lily or rose of thy testimony or oracle; but why it was so called is a matter of mere conjecture, and of…

Aram-naharaim; or, the Syrians (so called from Aram, the son of Shem, Gen. 10:22) of the two rivers, or of Mesopotamia, the country between those two great and famous rivers, Tigris and Euphrates. Aram-zobah, or, the Syrians of Zobah, part of Syria so called, 2 Sam. 8:5, 2 Sam. 8:12.

Made the earth to tremble; a poetical and hyperbolical expression, signifying great and dreadful changes among the people, as Hag. 2:7, compared with Heb. 12:26–27, 1 Sam. 14:15. Heal the breaches thereof; reconcile all those differences which our civil wars have made among us.

Thou hast showed, Heb. made them to see, i.e. to experience or feel, as seeing is oft put, as Ps. 49:10, and oft elsewhere. Thou hast filled us with no less horror and trembling, than men intoxicated with strong and stupefying drink, which they are forced to drink. Compare Isa. 51:17, Isa. 51:21.

Thou hast given; either, 1. Formerly. As thou hast sometimes afflicted thy people, so at other times thou hast delivered them. Or rather, 2. Now lately by and under me. A banner; which is a sign and instrument, 1. Of union.

Thy beloved people, last mentioned.

God hath spoken: having prayed that God would save and hear him, he now intimates that God had done it already, and had prevented his prayers, and had spoken to him and of him, about the stablishing of his throne.

Gilead; all their land beyond Jordan, which was possessed by Reuben and Gad, and half of the tribe of Manasseh, Num. 32:29, Num. 32:39–40, Deut. 3:10;c. Josh. 13:25;c. Manasseh; the other half of that tribe within Jordan. Mine head; either, 1.

Moab is my wash-pot, in which I shall wash my feet. I shall bring them into the lowest degree of servitude, and make them contemptible and miserable. See 2 Sam. 8:2. Over Edom, an old, and proud, and insolent, and cruel enemy of Israel, will I cast out my shoe, i.e.

Who will bring me? None can do it but God, as he declareth in the following verses. Into the strong city, i.e. the cities; the singular number for the plural, which is usual.

To wit, in former times, but now hast graciously returned to us. He brings to his own and people’s minds their former calamities, that they may be more thankful for present mercies and deliverance.

Though I have some reputation for valour and conduct, and though my people are very numerous, and now united under me, yet all this will avail little or nothing without thy almighty help.