This psalm expresses a confident expectation of eternal life and
happiness, founded on the evidence of true attachment to God. It
expresses the deep conviction that one who loves God will not be left...
This Psalm is a joyous profession of faith and hope, springing from
the sense of a living fellowship with Jehovah. The danger, if special
danger there was, which prompted the prayer of Psalms 16:1, li...
XVI.
Ewald’s arguments for grouping this psalm with Psalms 17, 49, as
those of one time, and even one author, are almost irresistible; and
this not merely from the general similarity of language and s...
INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 16
MICHTAM OF DAVID. This is a new title, not met with before, though it
afterwards is prefixed to "five" psalms running, the fifty sixth, the
fifty seventh, the fifty eighth, t...
_A.M. 2944. B.C. 1060._
In this Psalm, upon whatever occasion, or in whatever distress David
might compose it, we are taught by the Apostles St. Peter and St.
Paul, Acts 2:25; Acts 13:35, to consider...