_The benefit of confidence in God. Obedience is the best sacrifice. The sense of David's evils inflameth his prayer._ To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. _TITLE._ מזמור לדוד למנצח _LAMNATSEACH LEDAVID MIZMOR_— Though this psalm, in its primary sense, may be applicable to the sickness which Go... [ Continue Reading ]
OUT OF AN HORRIBLE PIT— As David often compares himself in distress to a sinking and drowning man; so here he compares the affliction from which he had been relieved, to that of a man thrown into some loathsome and nauseous dungeon, with much filth in it; such a one, we will suppose, as Jeremiah was... [ Continue Reading ]
RESPECTETH NOT THE PROUD— _The proud, and those who incline to lies,_ are, on one side, the haughty daring atheists, who laugh at all application to any power above; and on the other, those who put their confidence in idol-superstitions, which are all a lie and deceit. Mudge.... [ Continue Reading ]
MANY, &C.— _Many things hast thou done, O Lord, my God: thy wonders and thy thoughts towards us, I am not able to set in order before thee._... [ Continue Reading ]
SACRIFICE AND OFFERING, &C.— These three verses, as they may possibly relate to David, who was a a type of Christ, may be thus considered.—_Sacrifice,_ &c. The Psalmist here enumerates the principal sorts of sacrifices which were offered under the law. See on Psalms 51:19._—Thou didst not desire; i.... [ Continue Reading ]
I HAVE PREACHED RIGHTEOUSNESS— The person speaking here declares that he has done what God required. If we understand it of David, the benefits and mercies which God had vouchsafed to him and his people must be meant by _righteousness;_ but if of Christ, as seems most proper, then it must refer to t... [ Continue Reading ]
LET THEM, &C.— They shall be desolate {_with their own shame for a reward of their turpitude._} Green renders it, after Bishop Hare, _Let those who say, unto me, aha, aha, instantly return back with shame._ REFLECTIONS.—1st, None ever yet trusted in God, and were confounded. The Psalmist acknowledge... [ Continue Reading ]