CONTENTS The Psalmist is here under affliction. He crieth to God. In the conclusion, he takes comfort in the consciousness that his prayer had been heard, and he shall triumph over all his enemies. To the chief musician on Neginoth upon Sheminith. A Psalm of David.... [ Continue Reading ]
We may, without the smallest injury to the grand point this Psalm hath in view, I mean, its pointed reference to Christ, look at David as speaking also of his own personal afflictions. David had a large portion of sorrow in himself, in his family and kingdom. But the beauty of the Psalm is as it beh... [ Continue Reading ]
The Reader will not fail to discover Christ in this supplication, when he recollects how Jesus complained in the garden, when he said, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death. Matthew 26:38..Reader! think how blessed and accommodating this view of Jesus is to the lesser sorrows of his people... [ Continue Reading ]
When we read this petition as the words of Christ in the flesh, how much strength do we derive from the thought that, if in the long waiting of our souls for the Lord's manifestation, we find Jesus exercised in the same before us, and therefore are in this way also made in conformity to our glorious... [ Continue Reading ]
Hezekiah made use of this very argument, and a sweet one it is, and proved most successful. Isaiah 38:18.... [ Continue Reading ]
We need only to compare scripture with scripture, to discover that it is Jesus of whom the prophet here speaks. Psalms 22:1. But, Reader! do not hastily pass over this review. Did Jesus cry and groan, and was he weary of it? Whence all this? The answer is at hand: In all this Jesus acted as the sinn... [ Continue Reading ]
Reader, do not fail to remark the holy triumph here expressed, and with which the Psalm concludes, as the sure result of covenant love, both as it belongs to our glorious Head, and, in him, to all his members. Who that reads this can overlook the scripture in which the prophetical language of this P... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS MY soul! see, I charge it upon thee this day, see that thy perusal of these precious portions of scripture be all directed to the discovery of him, to whom all the prophets gave witness; that wheresoever in the blessed book of God thy meditations are directed, thou dost search for Jesus... [ Continue Reading ]