LIV. If this Psalm is the outcome of individual feeling, the traditional title will suit it as well as any that conjecture can supply. But it reads more like the cry of a people in distress, an oppressed race, powerless except in its religious hope. A stanza of five lines, with marked and elegant r... [ Continue Reading ]
BY THY NAME. — See Note, Psalms 20:1. (Comp. Isaiah 30:27.) JUDGE ME BY THY STRENGTH — _i.e._, in Thy power see that justice is done me.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR STRANGERS. — This verse, with some variations, occurs again (Psalms 86:14); some MSS. even reading here “proud,” instead of “strangers.” With the received reading we must understand by the word “foreign oppressors” — though, doubtless, the inscription of the Psalm may be defended by taking the w... [ Continue Reading ]
WITH THEM... — Better, _is a supporter of my life._ So LXX. and Vulgate.... [ Continue Reading ]
CUT THEM OFF. — Or, _put them to silence._ IN THY TRUTH. — Or, _according to thy faithfulness. _... [ Continue Reading ]
I WILL FREELY SACRIFICE. — Better, _I will offer a willing_ (or _freewill_)_ sacrifice._ FOR IT IS GOOD. — Comp. Psalms 52:9.... [ Continue Reading ]
This verse does not actually state what has happened, but, according to a well-known Hebrew idiom should be rendered, _When he shall have delivered,_ &c HATH SEEN HIS DESIRE. — Or, _hath gloated on_ The Hebrews use the words _seeing_ and _looking_ very expressively, making the simple verb do almost... [ Continue Reading ]