Psalms 106:44

GOD'S BLESSINGS DESPITE ISRAEL'S SINS

"Nevertheless he regarded their distress,

When he heard their cry;

And he remembered for them his covenant,

And repented according to the multitude of his lovingkindness.

He made them also to be pitied

Of all those that carried them captive."

"He remembered his covenant" (Psalms 106:44). God had promised the Messiah to be born of the descendants of the Patriarchs; and, in a sense, God was "stuck with Israel," until that promise was fulfilled in the birth of Christ. That is why God continued to bless fleshly Israel, regardless of their wickedness, even though, as Ezekiel stated it, they actually became "worse than Sodom and Gomorrah (Ezekiel 16).

"Of all those that carried them captive" (Psalms 106:46). This simply does not sound like Nebuchadnezzar, but the many captivities of Israel in earlier times. Therefore we agree with McCaw, quoted at the beginning of this chapter that Psalms 106:47, below, does not require a Babylonian explanation.