Praying the Psalms with Augustine and Friends

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Praying the Psalms with Augustine and Friends

Psalm 105 withWolfgang Musculus – Remembering His Covenant

Sing to him, sing praise to him; tell of all his wonderful acts (v. 2). He sings because God has entrusted the word and mission of this covenant to a thousand generations. He remembers his covenant forever, the promise he made, for a thousand generations (v. 8). What sort of thing has been entrusted? The covenant begins with mortals, and he entrusts the word of the covenant to a thousand generations. I find two dimensions to this covenant. The first is that those things which concern the people of the covenant are preserved—that is, the tablets of the covenant on the Ten Words have been handed down. The other is that the grace of this covenant will be announced, spread, and communicated not only to the present generation but also to the following ones, and that up to a thousand generations. The prophet primarily sings about the mission of the covenant—by which God requires that what he established with Abraham and his descendants may also be offered to later generations so that nothing deprives them of this grace of the covenant.