PSALM 21 The subject of this Psalm is the same with the former, both being made for the people's use, concerning the king; only the prayers there used are here turned into praises for the blessings received in answer to their prayers. And as David was an illustrious type of Christ, so in many of the... [ Continue Reading ]
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PREVENTEST HIM; or, _didst prevent him_; crowning him with manifold blessings, both more and sooner than he either desired or expected; surprising him with the gift of the kingdom, and with many happy successes. WITH THE BLESSING OF GOODNESS, i. e. with excellent blessings. Or, _with abundance_ (as... [ Continue Reading ]
He asked only the preservation of that short and mortal life, which was oft exposed to utmost perils. FOR EVER AND EVER; either, 1. In his posterity, in whom parents are commonly said to live. Thou gavest the kingdom not only to himself for a season, as thou didst to Saul; but to him and to his see... [ Continue Reading ]
HIS GLORY; his fame or renown in the world. _In thy salvation_; by reason of those great and glorious deliverances which thou hast wrought both for him and by him. HAST THOU LAID UPON HIM; or, _fitted to him, or upon him_, as the Hebrew verb signifies; or, _made it adequate to him_. Thou hast given... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU HAST MADE HIM MOST BLESSED, Heb. _thou hast set_ (or, _made_, as this verb is used, PSALMS 40:5, PSALMS 89:42 91:9 LAMENTATIONS 3:45) him blessings; i.e. either, 1. The author or instrument of manifold blessings to the world, and especially to thy people; which David was in a good measure, but... [ Continue Reading ]
Or _removed_, from his kingdom, as Saul was.... [ Continue Reading ]
When they seek to hide themselves or flee away from thee, shall discover, and overtake, and destroy them. Or, _shall be sufficient_ (as this verb sometimes signifies, as NUMBERS 11:22 JUDGES 21:14) _for all thine enemies_, to wit, to conquer them; thou shalt need no foreign succours to help thee.... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU SHALT MAKE THEM AS A FIERY OVEN; or, _thou shalt put them_, (as the Hebrew word properly signifies,)_ as it were_, into (so there is only an ellipsis of the preposition _beth_, which is most frequent) _a fiery oven_, i.e. like wood, which when it is cast in there, is quickly consumed. SHALL SWA... [ Continue Reading ]
THEIR FRUIT; either, 1. The fruit of their labours. Or rather, 2. Their seed or children, as it is explained in the next branch, oft called a man's _fruit_, as DEUTERONOMY 28:4 PSALMS 127:3, PSALMS 132:11 LAMENTATIONS 2:20. God will take away both root and branch, the parents and all that wicked r... [ Continue Reading ]
AGAINST THEE, i.e. against God, not directly, but by conseqence, because it was against David, whom God had anointed, and against the Lord's people, whose injuries God takes as done to himself, MALACHI 2:8. TO PERFORM; such supplements are usual after this verb, as EXODUS 8:18 PSALMS 101:5, PSALMS 1... [ Continue Reading ]
TURN THEIR BACK, i.e. flee away at the first sight of thee, whereby also they will be a fit mark for thine arrows. Or, _thou shalt set them as a butt_ to shoot at, as the like phrase is used, DEUTERONOMY 7:10 JOB 7:20, JOB 16:12. _Against the face of them_; or, _against them_, the word FACE being of... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THINE OWN STRENGTH; by thy own power, or by the manifestation thereof, whereby thou wilt have the whole glory of the work.... [ Continue Reading ]