Verse 17
17. Beauty Understand the word in the sense of grace, favour. Compare Psalms 27:4; Zechariah 11:7; Zechariah 11:10.
Establish Accomplish, confirm.
Work of our hands The Church co-works with God, (Philippians 2:12-13,) and her works become established because they are in harmony with the purposes and works of God. Comp. Deuteronomy 14:29; Deuteronomy 24:19; Deuteronomy 28:12; Deuteronomy 30:9. The prayer is for the success and permanent prosperity of the people, both as a nation and a Church, in contrast with their profitless wilderness life, with its reverses, its retrograde marches, and its aimless wanderings.
Upon us Three times the preposition “upon” occurs twice in the invocation “upon us,” and once “upon their children.”
“Because the promoting comes from above.” Hengstenberg.
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