_The godly profess their confidence in God, and pray to be delivered from contempt._ A Song of Degrees. _Title._ המעלות שׁיר _Shiir hammangaloth._] Bishop Patrick thinks this psalm was composed in that time of distress, when the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh to besiege Hezekiah in Jerusalem. He ob... [ Continue Reading ]
AS THE EYES OF SERVANTS LOOK UNTO THE HAND— Masters had a power not only of commanding, but of severely punishing their servants; accordingly, this _looking to the hand,_ &c. properly denotes the servant under chastisement, turning the eyes, and looking to the hand that striketh, and beseeching and... [ Continue Reading ]
OF THOSE THAT ARE AT EASE— Or, _Of the insolent._ The Hebrew word שׁאננים _shaanannim_ is used not only for _quiet_ or _secure,_ in the original notion, but, by a metonymy of the cause for the effect, for _insolent_ or _scornful;_ because ease and security too often make men so. REFLECTIONS.—We hav... [ Continue Reading ]