_IN THEE, O LORD, DO I PUT MY TRUST: LET ME NEVER BE PUT TO CONFUSION._ Psalms 71:1.-Introduction, from Psalms 31:1. Prayer for deliverance on the ground of God's righteousness (Psalms 71:1); as God has manifested His grace to the sufferer from youth (Psalms 71:4), he trusts that God will not cast h... [ Continue Reading ]
_DELIVER ME IN THY RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND CAUSE ME TO ESCAPE: INCLINE THINE EAR UNTO ME, AND SAVE ME._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_BE THOU MY STRONG HABITATION, WHEREUNTO I MAY CONTINUALLY RESORT: THOU HAST GIVEN COMMANDMENT TO SAVE ME; FOR THOU ART MY ROCK AND MY FORTRESS._ Be thou my strong habitation - (Psalms 90:1.) In Psalms 31:2 it is "my strong rock," designedly varied by the author, as often elsewhere, when he repeats... [ Continue Reading ]
_DELIVER ME, O MY GOD, OUT OF THE HAND OF THE WICKED, OUT OF THE HAND OF THE UNRIGHTEOUS AND CRUEL MAN._ Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked - (cf. title, Psalms 18:1.) OUT OF THE HAND - `the grasp (_ MIKAP_ (H3709)); a different Hebrew word from the previous "hand" (_ MIYAD _ (H3... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR THOU ART MY HOPE, O LORD GOD: THOU ART MY TRUST FROM MY YOUTH._ -The prayer in Psalms 71:4 is followed, first, by the basis on which it rests (Psalms 71:5); then by an expanded form of it (Psalms 71:9). Verse 5. FOR THOU ART MY HOPE - i:e., my object of hope (Psalms 40:4). O LORD GOD - _ 'A... [ Continue Reading ]
_CAST ME NOT OFF IN THE TIME OF OLD AGE; FORSAKE ME NOT WHEN MY STRENGTH FAILETH._ Cast me not off in the time of old age - since thou hast been my support, and therefore "my trust from my youth" (Psalms 71:5), I confidently ask thee not to cast me off in my old age. My very weakness, through years... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR MINE ENEMIES SPEAK AGAINST ME; AND THEY THAT LAY WAIT FOR MY SOUL TAKE COUNSEL TOGETHER,_ For mine enemies speak against me ... God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him. The ungodly persecute the saints most when they think, because of the sufferings of the latter, that they are given up... [ Continue Reading ]
_O GOD, BE NOT FAR FROM ME: O MY GOD, MAKE HASTE FOR MY HELP._ O God, be not far from me - (Psalms 22:11.) O MY GOD, MAKE HASTE FOR MY HELP - (Psalms 40:13.)... [ Continue Reading ]
_LET THEM BE CONFOUNDED AND CONSUMED THAT ARE ADVERSARIES TO MY SOUL; LET THEM BE COVERED WITH REPROACH AND DISHONOUR THAT SEEK MY HURT._ Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul. "Adversaries" in Hebrew is the plural of Satan, which means the adversary, (Psalms 109:6, ma... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT I WILL HOPE CONTINUALLY, AND WILL YET PRAISE THEE MORE AND MORE._ Here hope succeeds to prayer. The hope is summarily stated in Psalms 71:14; and then in Psalms 71:15 is expressed, in a developed form, confident determination to go in the strength of the Lord God. BUT I WILL HOPE CONTINUALLY... [ Continue Reading ]
_MY MOUTH SHALL SHEW FORTH THY RIGHTEOUSNESS AND THY SALVATION ALL THE DAY; FOR I KNOW NOT THE NUMBERS THEREOF._ My mouth shall show forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day. Here he gets from God the assurance of what he had prayed for (Psalms 71:8), "Let my mouth be filled with thy p... [ Continue Reading ]
_I WILL GO IN THE STRENGTH OF THE LORD GOD: I WILL MAKE MENTION OF THY RIGHTEOUSNESS, EVEN OF THINE ONLY._ I will go in the strength of the Lord God - literally, 'strengths,' plural 'I will go (in the discharge of public and private duties alike, Numbers 27:17; Deuteronomy 28:6; I will go out and c... [ Continue Reading ]
_O GOD, THOU HAST TAUGHT ME FROM MY YOUTH: AND HITHERTO HAVE I DECLARED THY WONDROUS WORKS._ O God, thou hast taught me from my youth - namely, to praise thee (cf. the second clause, and Psalms 71:18, second clause). God's power, exercised continually in the sufferer's behalf, gave him cause for pr... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW ALSO WHEN I AM OLD AND GRAYHEADED, O GOD, FORSAKE ME NOT; UNTIL I HAVE SHEWED THY STRENGTH UNTO THIS GENERATION, AND THY POWER TO EVERY ONE THAT IS TO COME._ Now also when I am old and grey-headed, O God, forsake me not - Hebrew, 'And even unto old age and hoar hairs;' to which Isaiah 46:3 ref... [ Continue Reading ]
_THY RIGHTEOUSNESS ALSO, O GOD, IS VERY HIGH, WHO HAST DONE GREAT THINGS: O GOD, WHO IS LIKE UNTO THEE!_ Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high - literally, 'is even to the height' (Psalms 36:5; Psalms 57:5; Psalms 57:10). O GOD, WHO IS LIKE UNTO THEE! Exodus 15:11 is the fundamental passage... [ Continue Reading ]
_THOU, WHICH HAST SHEWED ME GREAT AND SORE TROUBLES, SHALT QUICKEN ME AGAIN, AND SHALT BRING ME UP AGAIN FROM THE DEPTHS OF THE EARTH._ (Thou), which hast showed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again. So the Qeri' and the ancient versions, the Septuagint, V... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side. THOU SHALT INCREASE MY GREATNESS - even to a greater height than it attained before. The Septuagint, Vulgate, Ethiopic, and Arabic translate, 'thy' instead of "my." So Hengstenberg understands it, 'Thou shalt multiply my great deeds'... [ Continue Reading ]
I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel. -Promise of thanks for the deliverance anticipated by faith. Verse 22. I WILL ALSO PRAISE THEE - rather, 'I also will praise thee.' Even as thou increasest my grea... [ Continue Reading ]