IIOPT IN THE LORD-REDEMPTIOF, CHAPTER XIX. 449 LET ALL TRUST IN THE LORD-WITH HMI IS PLENTEOUS REDEMPTION. The main design of the Psalm and the improvement Made of it by the Psalmist himself having been con- sidered, it only remains to notice his appeal to others to drink at this fountain and enjoy the same benefits. " Let Israel hope in the Lord, for with the Lord there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption. ./Ind he shall redeem Israelfrom all his iniquities." verses 7, 8. "Let Israel hope in the Lord;" (in the Hebrew, Hope, Israel, in Jehovah.) Trust, or expect; the same word with that, verse 5, " In his word do I hope ;" properly, to expect, to look for, which includes hope, and adds some further degree of the soul's acting towards God it is an earnest looking after the thing hoped for : hope in him, and look up to him, "for," or because, seeing that " with the Lord there is mercy," grace, bounty, good- ness, good-will. This word is often joined with another, and that is, truth; (in the Hebrew, goodness, or mercy and truth.) These are, as it were, constituent parts of God's promises. It is goodness, grace, bounty,, to pro- mise any mercy; and it is of truth or faithfulness to make good what is so promised. The Septuagint com- monly renders this word by eleos, that is, pardoning mer- cy, as it is every where used in the New Testament. "Ind with him is plenteous redemption ;" as before, " with thee," speaking into Gad, verse 1; the meaning
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