_THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE WICKED SAITH WITHIN MY HEART, THAT THERE IS NO FEAR OF GOD BEFORE HIS EYES._ Title. - TO THE CHIEF MUSICIAN, A PSALM OF DAVID THE SERVANT OF THE LORD. "The servant of the Lord" occurs nowhere else in a title, except in Psalms 18:1: It relates to the subject of the psalm: th... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR HE FLATTERETH HIMSELF IN HIS OWN EYES, UNTIL HIS INIQUITY BE FOUND TO BE HATEFUL._ For he flattereth ... be found to be hateful - rather, 'in respect to _ Lª-_ the finding of his sin, (and) in respect to _ Lª-_ the hating of it.' Compare on the phrase 'finding of sin,' Genesis 44:16; Numbers 3... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE WORDS OF HIS MOUTH ARE INIQUITY AND DECEIT: HE HATH LEFT OFF TO BE WISE, AND TO DO GOOD._ He hath left off - instead of leaving off the self-destroying folly of sin (Isaiah 1:16; Jeremiah 4:22; Psalms 14:1).... [ Continue Reading ]
_HE DEVISETH MISCHIEF UPON HIS BED; HE SETTETH HIMSELF IN A WAY THAT IS NOT GOOD; HE ABHORRETH NOT EVIL._ He deviseth ... his bed - even there, where one lies down for sleep, he cannot be quiet from restless plans of evil. IN A WAY THAT IS NOT GOOD; HE ABHORRETH NOT EVIL. His positive sins flow f... [ Continue Reading ]
_THY MERCY, O LORD, IS IN THE HEAVENS; AND THY FAITHFULNESS REACHETH UNTO THE CLOUDS._ The second strophe. The consolation which the pious have in God's inexhaustible mercy, faithfulness, righteousness, and loving-kindness. THY MERCY ... THE HEAVENS - rising far above the haughty impiety of the wi... [ Continue Reading ]
_THY RIGHTEOUSNESS IS LIKE THE GREAT MOUNTAINS; THY JUDGMENTS ARE A GREAT DEEP: O LORD, THOU PRESERVEST MAN AND BEAST._ Thy righteousness ... the great mountains - literally 'the mountains of God.' The righteousness of God is that whereby He recompenses every man according to his works, awarding sa... [ Continue Reading ]
_HOW EXCELLENT IS THY LOVINGKINDNESS, O GOD! THEREFORE THE CHILDREN OF MEN PUT THEIR TRUST UNDER THE SHADOW OF THY WINGS._ How excellent ... O God! - Hebrew, _ YAAQAAR_ (H3368), 'how precious,' etc.; like some costly treasure. David has here "God" (_ 'ELOHIYM_ (H430)) instead of 'Lord,' or _ YAHWEH... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEY SHALL BE ABUNDANTLY SATISFIED WITH THE FATNESS OF THY HOUSE; AND THOU SHALT MAKE THEM DRINK OF THE RIVER OF THY PLEASURES._ They shall be abundantly satisfied ... - literally, They shall be watered; or, as the Chaldaic, Syriac, Vulgate, Ethiopic, and Septuagint, They shall be made drunk with.... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR WITH THEE IS THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE: IN THY LIGHT SHALL WE SEE LIGHT._ For with thee is the fountain of life. No wonder that in thy house, and in thy presence, there are abundant streams, and a full 'river of pleasures' for thy people to 'drink of,' for "with thee is the fountain of life" itself... [ Continue Reading ]
_O CONTINUE THY LOVINGKINDNESS UNTO THEM THAT KNOW THEE; AND THY RIGHTEOUSNESS TO THE UPRIGHT IN HEART._ O continue thy loving-kindness ... that know thee - literally, 'draw out at length х_ MªSHOK_ (H4900)] thy loving-kindness' (cf. Psalms 85:5, the same Hebrew). They alone "know" God who love Him... [ Continue Reading ]
_LET NOT THE FOOT OF PRIDE COME AGAINST ME, AND LET NOT THE HAND OF THE WICKED REMOVE ME._ Let not the foot of pride ... against me - so as suddenly to tread me down. "Come upon" implies a surprise, an one taken in a net (Psalms 35:7). The wicked foes are represented as "pride" itself embodied. Com... [ Continue Reading ]
_THERE ARE THE WORKERS OF INIQUITY FALLEN: THEY ARE CAST DOWN, AND SHALL NOT BE ABLE TO RISE._ There ... of iniquity fallen ... In spirit he, by faith, sees his foes already vanquished by the power of prayer, though to the world they seemed in the height of their prosperity. He points to them "ther... [ Continue Reading ]