_David prayeth for deliverance, complaining of his enemies: he promiseth himself to see such an evident destruction of them, that the righteous shall rejoice at it._ To the chief musician, A Psalm of David. _TITLE._ לדוד מזמור למנצח _LAMNATSEACH MIZMOR LEDAVID._— This psalm was probably written by... [ Continue Reading ]
BEND THEIR BOWS, &C.— _Direct their arrows,_ &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
AT THE PERFECT— _The upright man._ Houbigant and Mudge. David gives himself this high appellation, as referring to his integrity and uprightness; his perfect innocence of the crimes which his calumniators urged against him.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY SEARCH OUT INIQUITIES, &C.— _They disguise their iniquities, and hide them with deep dissimulation: the inside and heart of every one of them is deep._ See Mudge and Schultens.... [ Continue Reading ]
SO THEY SHALL MAKE THEIR OWN TONGUE, &C.— _And their own tongue shall cause it to fall upon them: all that see,_ &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THEY SHALL WISELY CONSIDER OF— _For they shall understand,_ &c. REFLECTIONS.—1st, We have here, 1. David, in fear, crying to God for protection and safety. 2. He opens before God the wickedness of his enemies. _Note;_ (1.) The people of God have been in every age the butt of the malignant tongu... [ Continue Reading ]