1._In Jehovah do I put my trust. _Almost all interpreters think that this is a complaint which David brings against his countrymen, that while seeking in every quarter for hiding-places, he could find nowhere even common humanity. And it is indeed true, that in the whole course of his wanderings, af... [ Continue Reading ]
2._Surely, behold! the ungodly. _Some think that this is added as the excuse made by those who desired David to save himself by flight. According to others, David expostulates with his countrymen, who saw death menacing him on all sides, and yet denied him shelter. But, in my judgment, he here conti... [ Continue Reading ]
3._Truly, the foundations are destroyed. _Some translate the word השתות, _hashathoth, _by _nets, _a sense in which the Scripture in other places often uses this word; and their explanation of the words is, that the wicked and deceitful arts which the ungodly practiced against David were defeated. If... [ Continue Reading ]
4._Jehovah is in the palace of his holiness. _In what follows, the Psalmist glories in the assurance of the favor of God, of which I have spoken. Being destitute of human aid, he betakes himself to the providence of God. It is a signal proof of faith, as I have observed elsewhere, to take and to bor... [ Continue Reading ]
6._He will rain upon the ungodly. _David now, in the last place, lays it down as a certain truth, that although God, for a time, may be still and delay his judgments, yet the hour of vengeance will assuredly come. Thus we see how by degrees he rises up to the hope of a happy issue to his present aff... [ Continue Reading ]
7._For the righteous Jehovah loveth righteousness. _The Psalmist has just now reasoned from the office of God that he will punish the wicked, and now, from the nature of God, he concludes, that he will be the defender of the good and the upright. As he is righteous, David shows that, as the conseque... [ Continue Reading ]