Psalms 18:50

These closing words may be due to a later poet, who thus sums up the lessons of the Psalm. But they may well be David's own. He drops the first person, and surveys his own life from without, in the light of the great promise of 2 Samuel 7:12-16. These are the deliverances Jehovah has wrought for the king of His choice; this is a sample of the lovingkindness which He has shewn to His Anointed, and will shew to his seed for evermore. The words reach forward to the perfect life, and the world-wide victories, of the Christ, the Son of David.

Great deliverance&c. Lit. He magnifieth the salvations of his king. Cp. Psalms 20:6. The Kthîbhand the Versions in 2 Sam. have the same reading: but the Qrç, which the A.V. follows, has "He is a tower of deliverance for his king." Cp. Psalms 61:3; Proverbs 18:10.The consonants of the two words, as originally written defectively and without vowels, are identical.

mercy lovingkindness. Cp. Psalms 17:7; 2 Samuel 7:15.