_A.M. 2962. B.C. 1042._ In this Psalm David celebrates God's great goodness to him and all his people. In its primary sense, it may be applicable to the deliverance which God had granted him from sickness, or from the distress to which he had been reduced by his enemies, (see the contents of the tw... [ Continue Reading ]
_I waited patiently for the Lord_ Hebrew, קוה קויתי, _kavvo kivviti, in waiting I waited_, or, _in hoping I hoped_, which doubling of the word signifies that he waited or hoped diligently and earnestly, patiently and perseveringly, until God should be pleased to help him. _And he inclined unto me_ O... [ Continue Reading ]
_He hath put a new song into my mouth_ Both by giving me new matter for a song, and by inspiring me with the very words of it. _Many shall see it_ Shall observe God's wonderful mercies vouchsafed to me; _and fear_ Shall stand in awe of that God, whom they see to have so great power, either to save o... [ Continue Reading ]
_Blessed is the man_, &c. I said, many _shall trust in the Lord_, and they shall not be losers by it, nor disappointed of their hope; but they are and shall be blessed. _And respecteth not_ ולא פנה, _velo-panah, looketh not toward_, namely, with delight and desire to imitate; or with confidence and... [ Continue Reading ]
_Many are thy wonderful works_ For which I and the rest of thy people, included in the plural pronoun _us_, have abundant cause to praise and to trust in thee, as was said Psalms 40:3. And by which it will appear that he that trusteth in thee is in a most blessed and safe condition, as expressed Psa... [ Continue Reading ]
_Sacrifice_, &c. These and the four following verses may, in an improper sense, belong to the person and time of David; when God might be said, _not to desire_, or _require_, legal sacrifices, comparatively. So the sense is, Thou didst desire obedience more, or rather, than sacrifices, as was said 1... [ Continue Reading ]
_Then_ When I understood and considered thy mind and will therein expressed, Psalms 40:6, _I said_ within myself, by a firm purpose; or unto thee, by way of promise, or engagement, _Lo, I come_ If these be considered as the words of a servant, answering to the call of his master, and signifying his... [ Continue Reading ]
_I delight to do thy will_ This also, though in a general sense it may be true of David, and of all God's people, yet, if it be compared with the foregoing verse, and with the explication thereof in the New Testament, (in which those mysteries, which were darkly and doubtfully expressed in the Old T... [ Continue Reading ]
_I have preached righteousness_ Namely, _thy righteousness_, as it is expressed in the next verse; that is, thy faithfulness, as it is there explained; or, righteousness properly so called; for both were fully declared and demonstrated in Christ; the former in God's sending him into the world, accor... [ Continue Reading ]
_Withhold not thy tender mercies_, &c. This prayer is uttered by David, either, 1st, In the person of Christ, to whom it may agree; or, rather, 2d, In his own person. For having been transported by the Spirit of God to the commemoration of the great mystery of the Messiah, of whom he was an illustri... [ Continue Reading ]
_Be pleased to deliver me_ From my sins, and the punishment due to them. _Let them be ashamed_ For the disappointment of their hopes and designs. _That seek after my soul_ That is, my life. _Let them be desolate_ Or, _They shall be desolate_, or _dismayed_, or _overthrown_, as ישׁמו, _jashommu_, als... [ Continue Reading ]
_I am poor and needy_, &c. “The church, like her Redeemer, is often poor and afflicted in this world, but Jehovah thinketh upon her, and is solicitous for her support; she is weak and defenceless, but Jehovah is her help and her deliverer. With such a Father, and such a friend, poverty becometh rich... [ Continue Reading ]