The Ps. is the confident and joyous prayer of one whose highest satisfaction is in God and in good men (Psalms 16:2), who renounces all the ways of idolatry (Psalms 16:4), and who finds in God not only ample wealth and happiness for the present (Psalms 16:5), but also a continuous prospect of the tr... [ Continue Reading ]
RV 'I have said unto the Lord (Jehovah), Thou art my Lord: I have no good beyond thee.'... [ Continue Reading ]
RV 'As for the saints that are in the earth, They are the excellent in whom is all my delight.' 4. _That_ HASTEN, etc.] RV 'that exchange _the Lord_ for another _god'_. DRINK OFFERINGS OF BLOOD] to be understood perhaps not literally, but in the sense of cruel and impure sacrifices. THEIR NAMES] th... [ Continue Reading ]
MY REINS] or as we should say, 'my heart': see Psalms 7:9. God's inward voice heard in hours of quietness, is one of the chief blessings of His people.... [ Continue Reading ]
I HAVE SET THE LORD, etc.] the constant, deliberate, and conscious exercise of faith.... [ Continue Reading ]
MY GLORY] my soul: see PSALMS 7:5; PSALMS 108:1. REST IN HOPE] RV 'dwell in safety.' The primary reference is not to the dead body in the grave, but to the continuance of bodily life on earth.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN HELL] RV 'to Sheol.' The meaning is, 'Thou wilt not suffer me to die.' THINE HOLY ONE] RV 'thine holy one'; RM 'thy godly (or beloved) one.' The allusion is primarily to the Psalmist himself, though the passage is used by St. Peter (Acts 2:25) to prove that the resurrection of Christ was in accor... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PATH OF LIFE] not specially of life after death, but of true life in the fellowship of God. IN THY PRESENCE] the presence in which the Psalmist already lived (Psalms 16:8). AT THY RIGHT HAND] RV 'in thy right hand.' FOR EVERMORE] The contrast which the Ps. draws is not, perhaps, so much betwee... [ Continue Reading ]