PSALM 59 THE ARGUMENT The matter and design of this Psalm is the same in general and for substance with the former, to wit, a declaration of the cruelty and treachery of his enemies; and a prayer to God to deliver him out of their hands. David, in danger, prayeth unto God for deliverance from his en... [ Continue Reading ]
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Without any provocation or cause given them by me. I am a sinner before thee, O Lord, but I have done them no injury.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY RUN to and fro, first to receive Saul's commands and then to execute them with all speed and diligence. PREPARE THEMSELVES; or, _dispose themselves_, here and there round about my house, that they may catch me when I go out of it. TO HELP ME, Heb. _to meet me_, as I come abroad and to conduct m... [ Continue Reading ]
THE GOD OF ISRAEL; a God in covenant with all true Israelites, whom thou hast promised to protect and bless. _The heathen_; or, _these heathens_, or _Gentiles_; who though they are called and accounted Israelites by their birth, yet in truth, and in their dispositions and manners, are mere heathens... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY RETURN AT EVENING, after they have been busy all day, either in plotting against me, or in hunting after me. In the evening, when they should compose themselves to rest, they return to their old trade of watching for me which they did at this time all the night long, 1 SAMUEL 19:11. THEY MAKE A... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY BELCH OUT; or, _they pour forth_, (to wit, words, for what else should come out of the mouth? even sharp and bitter words, as the next clause explains it,) abundantly and vehemently, as a fountain doth waters, as this word signifies. See PROVERBS 15:28 JEREMIAH 6:7. SWORDS, i.e. words as keen a... [ Continue Reading ]
Disappoint their high confidences and hopeful designs, and then deride them, and make them ridiculous and contemptible to others.... [ Continue Reading ]
HIS STRENGTH, i.e. Saul's strength; because he is too strong for me. Or rather, _O my strength_, as it is PSALMS 59:17. And all those ancient and venerable translators, the LXX., and Chaldee, and vulgar Latin, render it _my strength_. In the Hebrew it is his strength, i.e. David s. For David speaks... [ Continue Reading ]
THE GOD OF MY MERCY, i.e. the giver of all that mercy and comfort which I either have, or hope for. Heb. _of his mercy_. But here also there is (as appears by comparing this with PSALMS 59:17) a change of the person, as there was in the foregoing verse. SHALL PREVENT ME, to wit, with the blessings o... [ Continue Reading ]
SLAY THEM NOT, to wit, suddenly, or at once. MY PEOPLE; my countrymen; or those over whom thou hast appointed me to be governor in due time. Forget their former danger, and thy glorious mercy in delivering them, and their own duty to thee for it. Hereby it most plainly appears that David, in these a... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE SIN OF THEIR MOUTH AND THE WORDS OF THEIR LIP; for their ungodly, and injurious, and pernicious speeches, of which he speaks PSALMS 59:7, and in many other places. LET THEM BE TAKEN, AS IN A SNARE, IN ORDER TO THEIR RUIN. LET THY JUDGMENTS OVERTAKE THEM. IN THEIR PRIDE; for their proud and i... [ Continue Reading ]
CONSUME THEM by degrees, and after thou hast made them to wander about, PSALMS 59:11. THAT THEY MAY NOT BE, to wit, in the land of the living, any more; as this phrase is frequently understood, whereof divers instances have been given. LET THEM KNOW experimentally, and to their cost, that God ruleth... [ Continue Reading ]
What was their sin and their choice to do with evil design, let it be their punishment to do it by constraint, and for meat, as it follows, PSALMS 59:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
WANDER UP AND DOWN FOR MEAT, to get a livelihood. _And grudge if they be not satisfied_: when their bodies are hungry, let their minds be discontented. Or, as others render the words, _and lodge_, or _be forced to lodge, all night, when they are not satisfied_. Let them go to their rest with an empt... [ Continue Reading ]
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UNTO THEE, i.e. to thy honour; or rather, _of_ or _concerning thee_, as that particle is sometimes used.... [ Continue Reading ]