_God's care of the poor. David complaineth of his enemies' treachery: he fleeth to God for succour._ To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. _TITLE._ לדוד מזמור למנצח _LAMNATSEACH MIZMOR LEDAVID._— The ground of this psalm is the same with that of the 38th and 39th. The author labours under some i... [ Continue Reading ]
THOU WILT MAKE ALL HIS BED IN HIS SICKNESS— _Thou turnest all his bed in his sickness._ This expresses the ease and refreshment which God had just before given him in his sickness; as great as a person feels from his bed being made up smooth around him. Mudge.... [ Continue Reading ]
HEAL MY SOUL— As rational conjectures, says Dr. Delaney, are oftentimes useful inlets to knowledge, the candid reader will, I hope, be indulgent to mine, in relation to David's distemper, (see the note on the title of the 38th psalm,) which I am far from obtruding as a truth; for, after all, possibl... [ Continue Reading ]
AN EVIL DISEASE, &C.— Or, _A word of Belial cleaveth,_ &c. Literally, says Houbigant, _a thing of Belial is poured out upon him; i.e._ his wickedness is brought round upon, or overflows him. Green renders it, _Let the base thing he has been guilty of stick close to him._... [ Continue Reading ]
HATH LIFTED UP HIS HEEL AGAINST ME— _Hath shewn great treachery towards me._ Mudge. St. John, who wrote in Greek, quotes the words from the Greek version, as he found them, without altering the translation.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AS FOR ME, THOU UPHOLDEST, &C.— _Accordingly, for my own part, because of my integrity, thou hast upheld me, and set me before thy face for ever._ Mudge; who observes, that as the division of the Psalms into five books or portions is quite arbitrary, they seem to have ended them where they happe... [ Continue Reading ]