_The Psalmist sheweth what fierce combat he had with diffidence; and the victory which he had by the consideration of God's great and gracious works._ To the chief musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph. _Title._ מזמור ףּלאס ידותון על למנצח _lamnatseach al ieduthun leasaph mizmor._] Whoever was the... [ Continue Reading ]
MY SORE RAN IN THE NIGHT, &C.— _My hand was spread,_ or _stretched out in the night, and remitted not._ Houbigant. Green renders it, _In the night mine eye trickled down without ceasing._... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU HOLDEST MINE EYES, &C.— _Thou didst keep the watches of mine eyes. I was troubled, and spake not._... [ Continue Reading ]
I CALL TO REMEMBRANCE MY SONG— _In the night I conversed with my heart, and my spirit made inquiry, saying,_—Green.... [ Continue Reading ]
HATH GOD FORGOTTEN TO BE GRACIOUS— It is worth our while to observe the train of thoughts which this afflicted good man pursued, and what were the reflections in which he rested at last, as his best and only comfort and support. Whether the calamities which afflicted him were private to himself, or... [ Continue Reading ]
THY WAY, O GOD, IS IN THE SANCTUARY— _O God, in holiness is thy way._ Houbigant and Mudge. That is, "Every thing which thou doest is conformable to thy sanctity, thy divinity: thy doing, thy conduct, is all divine, like thyself.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SONS OF JACOB AND JOSEPH— The people of the Jews are very properly styled the sons of _Joseph,_ as well as of _Jacob._ For as Jacob was, under God, the author of their being; so was Joseph the preserver of it. The Chaldee paraphrast understood it thus; rendering it, _The sons which Jacob begat a... [ Continue Reading ]
THY WAY, &C.— _Thy way was through the sea, and thy path through the great waters, though thy footsteps were not seen._ "God walked before his people through the sea, though he left no footsteps of himself behind him.... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU LEDDEST THY PEOPLE LIKE A FLOCK— The complaints of good men in the Scriptures of the Old Testament are of two sorts: one regards the national calamities of the Jews, the other the sufferings of particular men. The first (as well as the second) seems to have made a principal subject of the Psalm... [ Continue Reading ]