1._They have often afflicted me from my youth. _This Psalm was
probably composed at a time when the Church of God, reduced to a state
of extreme distress, or dismayed by some great danger, or oppressed
with tyranny, was on the verge of total destruction. This conjecture,
I conceive, is supported by... [ Continue Reading ]
3._The ploughers have ploughed upon my back. _(110) Here the Prophet,
by an apparent similitude, embellishes his preceding statement
respecting the grievous afflictions of the Church. He compares the
people of God to a field through which a plough is drawn. He says that
the furrows were made long, s... [ Continue Reading ]
5._All who hate Zion shall be confounded, and tutored backward.
_Whether we take this as a prayer or a promise, the Prophet has a
respect to the time to come. Since all the verbs are in the future
tense, it is certainly a very appropriate interpretation to understand
him as deriving from times past... [ Continue Reading ]
7_With which the mower hath not filled his hand. _(116) We have here
an additional confirmation of the truth, that although the wicked
mount high or elevate themselves, and form an extravagant opinion of
their own importance, yet they continue mere grass, not bringing forth
any good fruit, nor reach... [ Continue Reading ]