Here is WL talking about Psalm 34:
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In Psalm 34 David spoke of the way to fear God (vv. 11-16; 1 Pet. 3:10-12). Verses 12-16 say, ‘‘Who is the man who desires life, / Who loves having days in order to see good? / Guard your tongue from evil, / And your lips from speaking deceit. / Turn away from evil and do good; / Seek peace and pursue it. / The eyes of Jehovah are set toward the righteous, / And His ears, toward their cry. / The face of Jehovah is against those who do evil, / To cut off the memory of them from the earth.’’ These verses were quoted by Peter in 1 Peter 3:10-12, but Paul did not quote such a word. Paul’s vision of the New Testament economy was clearer than that of all the other apostles.
When David asked, ‘‘Who is the man who desires life, / Who loves having days in order to see good?’’ he was not talking about the eternal life but about the physical life. David was a great saint in the Old Testament, and Peter was one of the great apostles in the New Testament, but I do not believe that what David said here is spiritual. Even among us, who dares ask the Lord to give him long days that he may enjoy many good things?
David said that if we love having days in order to see good, we should guard our tongue from evil and our lips from speaking deceit. But who has ever succeeded in guarding his tongue from evil? What David spoke here was according to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Verse 15 says, ‘‘The eyes of Jehovah are set toward the righteous, / And His ears, toward their cry.’’ But who is righteous on this earth? Paul said that not one is righteous (Rom. 3:10), and Isaiah said that our righteousnesses are like filthy rags (Isa. 64:6). If we depend upon our righteousness to enjoy God’s eyes and ears being set toward us, we will enjoy nothing, because we have no righteousness of our own.
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Now here is Psalm 91 (NIV):
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14 “Because he loves me,” says the Lord, “I will rescue him;
I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.
15 He will call on me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble,
I will deliver him and honor him.
16 With long life I will satisfy him
and show him my salvation.”
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Now is this vain writing? Or is Psalm 91 possibly revelatory of Christ? It's quoted in the gospel (Luke 4:10), by Jesus' adversary, as pertaining to Him (Jesus). Was the devil mistaken, or did he use the true revelation to attempt to try Jesus, and pry Him loose from the Father? So, then: what is the 'long life' promised in Psalm 91? Is it merely soulish, and natural, or revelatory of Jesus Christ? Isn't there a possible spiritual view here? Why dismiss the possibility out of hand, as WL apparently did, with Psalm 34, saying "David is not being spiritual"? And conversely, if Psalm 91 is in fact revealing something of Christ, then why isn't Psalm 34, and 18, etc? Why use different interpretive schemes for Psalms used in the NT versus Psalm sections that weren't quoted by the NT? What NT writer said, "Only these cited Psalms are useful, and no more"? Strange, really; I just can't see it. Do LSM apologists believe that if I read these commentaries prayerfully, I will somehow get it? The more I look at it, the less I get it.