_David exhorteth to praise God, to observe his great works, to bless him for his gracious benefits: he voweth for himself religious service to God: he declareth God's special goodness to himself._ To the chief musician, A Song _or_ Psalm. _TITLE._ מזמור שׁיר למנצח _LAMNATSEACH SHIIR MIZMOR._— This... [ Continue Reading ]
MAKE HIS PRAISE GLORIOUS— _Give him the glory of his praise; i.e._ The glory which is due to his praise, and belongs to it. See Isaiah 42:12. Mudge. Some render it, _Give him glory by praising him._... [ Continue Reading ]
THINE ENEMIES SUBMIT THEMSELVES UNTO THEE— According to the original, לךֶ יכחשׁו _iekachashu leka, lie unto thee._ See on Psalms 18:44.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE TURNED THE SEA INTO DRY LAND— This plainly refers to the passage through the Red Sea, and the rejoicing by Miriam, &c. upon the spot.... [ Continue Reading ]
LET NOT THE REBELLIOUS EXALT THEMSELVES— The _rebellious_ or _refractory; i.e._ Pharaoh, whose stubbornness and pride occasioned his ruin. But the caution was still as necessary as ever. God's eyes were still looking up and down through the nations, to rescue his prisoners, how haughtily soever thei... [ Continue Reading ]
WHICH HOLDETH OUR SOUL IN LIFE— These verses plainly refer to the deliverance from Egypt. After having made his people pass through several trials in Egypt, God _brought them into a net: "They are entangled,_ Pharaoh said, _The wilderness hath shut them in."_ Exodus 14:3. He put that _contrasting pa... [ Continue Reading ]
OF FATLINGS— i.e. The fattest lambs. _The incense of rams,_ means the odour of the fat of rams, which was burned in sacrifice.... [ Continue Reading ]
COME AND HEAR, ALL YE, &C.— Here we must suppose the Psalmist in the temple; speaking, as is frequently the case in other places of the psalms, to the assembled people, and declaring, to the honour of God, that he had heard and answered his prayer. He mentions no particular; probably it was a delive... [ Continue Reading ]