_A.M. 2944. B.C. 1060._ This Psalm, which the title ascribes to David, was undoubtedly composed by him during his troubles, and occasioned by the persecution which he suffered from Saul, and the malicious and treacherous dealings of Doeg and the Zyphites. David prays and hopes for deliverance from... [ Continue Reading ]
_Deliver me from the evil man_ Either Saul, or Doeg, or some other malicious enemy, or rather enemies; the word _man_ being taken collectively for _men_, as appears from the next verse. _Continually, are they gathered_, &c. To execute those bloody enterprises which they have devised. _They have shar... [ Continue Reading ]
_Keep me from the hands of the wicked_ Hebrew, רשׁע, _the wicked man._ Let him not prevail to take away my life, my reputation, my interest, or my comfort, or to prevent my coming to the throne. _Preserve me from the violent man_ Hebrew, מאישׁ חמסים, (as also in Psalms 140:1,) _from the man of viole... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hear the voice of my supplication_ The more malice appears in our enemies against us, and the greater efforts they use to injure us, the more earnest ought we to be in prayer to God, after the example of David here, to take us under his protection. On him believers may depend for security, and may... [ Continue Reading ]
_As for the head of those_, &c. Bishop Hare connects this clause with the preceding, and translates the passage thus; _Let not those that beset me lift up the head. Let the mischief of their own lips cover them _ Let the evil, which by their calumnies they design to bring upon me fall upon themselve... [ Continue Reading ]
_I know_, &c. Both by God's word, who hath promised it, and by my own experience of it in the course of God's providence; _that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted_, &c. That he will not suffer _might_ always to prevail against _right_, though it be but the right of the poor. God is, a... [ Continue Reading ]