Ps. 92:0 To be sung upon the weekly sabbath; to which the matter of this Psalm very well agrees. For it celebrates the works of God, both that first and great work of creation, and that succeeding and no less wonderful work of his providence, by which he upholds and governs all his creatures, and…

It is a good work, and a just debt to God.

To adore and celebrate thy goodness and truth continually, and especially at those two solemn times of morning and evening, which on every day, and especially upon the sabbath day, were devoted to the worship and service of God.

Which thou didst create by thine almighty power, and dost still govern with infinite wisdom; one instance whereof we have in the following verses.

Thy thoughts; thy counsels and methods in the government of the world and of thy church.

A brutish man; who cannot or doth not seriously consider things, whose mind is corrupted by his sensual and brutish appetites; who is led by sense, and not by reason and faith. This; the depth of God’s counsels and works mentioned Ps. 92:5, or that particular work of God described Ps. 92:7.

Their present worldly prosperity is a presage and occasion of their utter and eternal ruin.

So this verse is added by way of opposition to the former, They shall perish, but thou shalt endure, as is said in a like comparison, Ps. 102:26; they flourish for a season, but thou rulest for ever to judge and punish them.

He represents their destruction as present, and as certain, which the repetition of the words implies.

But as for me and other righteous persons, (of whom he saith the same thing Ps. 92:12) we shall be advanced to the height of honour, and true and lasting felicity. Unicorn; of which See Poole “Deut. 33:17”.

My desire, to wit, in the ruin of thine and mine incorrigible enemies. Shall hear; what I do not see myself, I shall understand by the certain reports of others.

Like the palm tree; which is constantly green, and flourishing, and fruitful, Song 7:8, and growing even when it is pressed down; and so is a fit emblem of a just man’s person and condition. See Rev. 7:9.

Those that be planted; whom God by his gracious providence and Holy Spirit hath planted or fixed there. In the house of the Lord, i.e. in its courts, which are a part of the house, and oft come under that name in Scripture.

When their natural strength decayeth, it shall be renewed; their last days shall be their best days, wherein as they shall grow in grace, so they shall increase in comfort and blessedness.

This glorious work of God in compensating the short prosperity of the wicked with everlasting punishments, and of exchanging the momentary afflictions of the just with eternal glory and happiness, doth clearly demonstrate that God is just and blameless in all the dispensations of his providence in…