This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.
After Israel in the years following the occupation of the Promised Land had almost wholly lost sight of God's beneficent design for the salvation of the heathen, this was set forth anew. The record of God's work was to be written and preserved for the generation to come, so that a people yet to be created and brought into being would praise the Lord.
Its setting is God looking down from His sanctuary in heaven upon the earth to hear the groaning of the prisoner and to free those appointed to death. Its setting is the declaring of His name in Zion and His praise in Jerusalem when peoples and kingdoms are gathered together to serve the Lord. Its setting includes the heathen fearing His name and all the kings of the earth beholding His glory.
The praise of the nations belongs to God's saving work and is not a blessing meant for Israel alone.
After Israel in the years following the occupation of the Promised Land had almost wholly lost sight of God's beneficent design for the salvation of the heathen, this was set forth anew. The record of God's work was to be written and preserved for the generation to come, so that a people yet to be created and brought into being would praise the Lord.
Its setting is God looking down from His sanctuary in heaven upon the earth to hear the groaning of the prisoner and to free those appointed to death. Its setting is the declaring of His name in Zion and His praise in Jerusalem when peoples and kingdoms are gathered together to serve the Lord. Its setting includes the heathen fearing His name and all the kings of the earth beholding His glory.
The praise of the nations belongs to God's saving work and is not a blessing meant for Israel alone.