The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms # 356
356. Internal Meaning of Psalm 106
Of the church instituted among the Jewish nation: it became perverted and revolted. (3)
1-5 Prayer of the Lord to the Father to give help, that He might see the church established. (13, 11, 3)
6-8 Although those who were of the church beheld Divine miracles, they backslid, and yet they were preserved, (3)
9-34 as at the sea Suph and afterwards in the desert (many [instances here recounted]), nevertheless they rebelled. (3)
35-39 They totally destroyed and profaned the truths and goods of the church. (3)
40-43 Therefore the church with them was forsaken by the Lord, and destroyed. (3)
44-46 Then those who were out of the church were heard, (11)
47-48 and a church constituted of them will arise and will worship the Lord. (11, 8)
Psalms 106:35-39
35
but mixed themselves with the nations, and learned their works.
36
They served their idols, which became a snare to them.
37
Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.
38
They shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted with blood.
39
Thus were they defiled with their works, and prostituted themselves in their deeds.
