My God — Who art my friend and father, though now thou frownest upon me. The repetition denotes, the depth of his distress, which made him cry so earnestly. Forsaken — Withdrawn the light of thy countenance, the supports and comforts of thy spirit, and filled me with the terrors of thy wrath: this w... [ Continue Reading ]
But thou art — Just and true in all thy ways, this he adds to strengthen his faith, and to enforce his prayers, and prevail with God for the honour of his holy name, to hear and help him. Inhabitest — Whom thy people are perpetually praising.... [ Continue Reading ]
A worm — Neglected and despised. People — Not only of the great men, but also of the common people. Which doth not so truly agree to David as to Christ.... [ Continue Reading ]
Shoot out — They gape with their mouths, in mockery. This and the next verse are applied to Christ, Matthew 27:39, Matthew 27:43.... [ Continue Reading ]
Bulls — Wicked and violent, and potent enemies; for such are so called, Ezekiel 39:18; Amos 4:1. Of Bashan — As the cattle there bred were, and therefore fierce and furious.... [ Continue Reading ]
Water — My spirits are spent and gone like water which once spilt can never be recovered; my very flesh is melted within me, and I am become as weak as water. Bones — I am as unable to help myself, and as full of torment, as if all my bones were disjointed. Wax — Melted, through fear and overwhelmin... [ Continue Reading ]
Dried — I have in a manner no more moisture left in me, than is in a dry potsherd. Cleaveth — Through excessive thirst and drought. Death — Thy providence, delivering me into the power of mine enemies, and by thy terrors in my soul.... [ Continue Reading ]
Dogs — So he calls his enemies for their insatiable greediness, and implacable fierceness against him. Pierced — These words cannot with any probability be applied to David, but were properly and literally verified in Christ.... [ Continue Reading ]
May tell — By my being stretched out upon the cross.... [ Continue Reading ]
They part — This also cannot be applied to David, but was literally fulfilled in Christ, Matthew 27:35; John 19:24.... [ Continue Reading ]
Darling — Heb. my only one; his soul, which he so calls, because it was left alone and destitute of friends and helpers.... [ Continue Reading ]
Heard — Answered and delivered me.... [ Continue Reading ]
Declare — When thou hast delivered me. Thy name — that power and faithfulness and goodness, which thou hast manifested on my behalf. Congregations — The same whom he calls the congregation, and the seed of Jacob and Israel: which also does not so fitly agree to David, who never gives this title to a... [ Continue Reading ]
Abhorred — He did not turn away his face from it, as men do from things which they abhor. From him — For ever: tho' he did so for a time.... [ Continue Reading ]
Great congregation — In the universal church, of Jews and Gentiles.... [ Continue Reading ]
Satisfied — This is doubtless to be understood, of those spiritual blessings, that grace and peace, and comfort, which all believing souls have in the sense of God's love, the pardon of their sins, and the influences of God's spirit. Seek him — That seek his favour. Your heart — He speaks of the sam... [ Continue Reading ]
The world — All nations from one end of the world to the other. So this is an evident prophecy of the calling of the Gentiles, and a clear proof, that this psalm immediately speaks of Christ; to whom alone, this and divers other passages of it, belong. Remember — They shall remember their former wic... [ Continue Reading ]
For — This is added as a reason, why the Gentiles should be converted, because God is not only God and the Lord of the Jews, but also of the Gentiles, and of all nations.... [ Continue Reading ]
Fat — Kings and princes, and the great men of the world. Shall eat — Shall feed upon the bread of life, Christ and all his benefits. Worship — This is added to shew what kind of eating he spoke of. Go down — That is, all mankind, for none can escape death.... [ Continue Reading ]
A seed — Christ shall not want a seed or posterity, for though the Jewish nation will generally reject him, the Gentiles shall come in their stead. A generation — That believing seed shall be reputed both by God and men, The generation, or people of the Lord, as the Jews formerly were.... [ Continue Reading ]
They — The seed last mentioned. Come — From Judea and Jerusalem (from whence the gospel was first to go forth) to the Gentile world, to the several parts whereof the apostles went upon this errand. His — God's righteousness: his wonderful grace and mercy unto mankind, in giving them Christ and the g... [ Continue Reading ]