John Gill Commentary Psalms 135:14

"For Jehovah will judge his people, And repent himself concerning his servants." — Psalms 135:14 (ASV)

For the Lord will judge his people
Rule and govern, protect and defend them; plead their cause, and avenge them of their enemies; judge between them, distinguish them by his care and providence, make them visible, so that others shall see the difference between them; especially at the last day, when he will judge them, and, as the righteous Judge, give them the crown of righteousness. Or "though the Lord judges his people" ^F13 ; chastises them in a fatherly way, that they may not be condemned with the world;

and ,
or "yet" ^F14 ;

he will repent himself concerning his servants ;
of the evil of affliction he has brought upon them; he will change the course of his providential dealings with them, according to his unchangeable will; and turn their adversity into prosperity, and their mourning into joy: some render it, "he will be entreated for his servants" ^F15 ; he will hear prayer on their account, and save them out of their afflictions; or, as others, "he will comfort himself concerning his servants" ^F16 ; take pleasure in them and their prosperity, comfort them, and take delight in so doing. The Targum of the whole is,

``for the Lord will judge the judgment of his people by his word, and to his righteous servants will return in his mercies.''

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FOOTNOTES:

• F13: (yk) "quod si", Junius & Tremellius; "nam etsi", Piscator.
• F14: "Tamen", Piscator; "mox", Junius & Tremellius.
• F15: (Mxnty) "deprecabitur", V. L. "sinet se deprecari", Tirinus.
• F16: "Solatium reportabit", Tigurine version.