2 Many there be which ſay of my ſoul 4, There 3s no ; help for him in God e, Selah f. | 4 i,e, Of me : the ſoul being commonly put for the perſon, as ſa: 46. 2. Amos 6.8, compare with Gen; 22. 16. e God hath utterly for. j faken him for his many crimes,and will never help him more.f This ' word is no where uſed bur in this Poetical Book of the Pſahns, and in the ſong of Habakkuk, Chap. 3. 3. 9, 13. Which makes that opi- nion probable that it was a Muſical Nore,direG&t:ny the Singer either to lift up his Voice, or to makea ſhort ſtop or pauſe, or to jiengrhen out the rune. Bur withal, it is generally placed at ſome remarke able paſſage; which gives occaſion ro think that ir ſerved alſo to
quicken the attention or obſervation of the Singer and Hearer,
$054 3 But chou, O LORD, arta ſhield || for meg: my o_— glory b, and the lifter up of my head 5:
g Or. about me, on every ſide, where alſo mine enemies are.
h Either 1» The Author of my Princely Glory and Majeſty. Thou
didſt firſt give it, and I doubt not. thou wiltſt defend and reſtore it.
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quently given, aad wiltſt further give me occaſion of glorying or boaſting of thy power and favour to me. ; Thou doſtand wiltſten- able me to look up to thee with comfort and chearfuineſs, and upon mine Enemies with confidence, and thou wiitſt lift me out ot the | mire in which I now lye, and reſtore me to my former power and dignity from which Iam failen, For the Phraic ice* Ger; 4; 7; Job | Liot5: Luke 18: 11+
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t and glo- and atraid | þ yoke your diſhonour and io:y and happineis to be f the great:{t Em- and blets God for this ine- p This is added to exprets the qualityof d ro diſtinguuth ir from chat Car- is Uſually actended with 1:cunty and to warn them to t-ke heed of God into wantonnefs, nor lack- and Rof his terrible 01:1d hereafter revolt from ham, or rebel a- cir ſalvation with fear and ith, 28.
expreſſed John 8: 24. which isa ſad aggravarion of rher death, and
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him ; and fo curſed and miſerable that David dreaded the very :
. grounded.
Or, 2. The matter of my giorying thou haft formerly and free þ-
Plal. IY.
4: I cried unto the LORD with my voice &, ard he
eard me out of his koly hiil/. Selah. k The witneſs of my Faith and fervency of affeQions, / Fither out of Heaven, fo callec Pſal: 15+ 1, compare 1/a, 66, 1. Or rather 2. Outoi the hill of Sion, where God was eſpecially preſent, the Ark being there at this rime : towards which the Saints then uſed ro direct their Brayers,fom thenceGod heard and an{wered and bleC. ſed them, Plal. 128, 5.and134: 3. 5 *1laid me down and flept 2; I awaked», for the * Pſ4.8. LORD luſtained me 0, 10V: 3:24 m To wit, ſecurely, caſting all my cares and fears upon God, and relying upon his help. # In due time and manner, after a ſweet ard unciiiurbed fleep. o Or. ſupported me, as it were with his right hand, that I ſhould not fall under my burthen. He upheld my Ipirit, and perſon, and cauſe. o *1 wilinotbe afraid of ten thouſands of tave ſer rhem{elves againſt me round about p. Þ So that I tee ne humane way to eſcape. - 7 Ariſe 4, O LORD, fave me, O my God x, * for +p; thou haſt ſmitten all mine enemies 5 wp the cheek. =
bone 7 : thou haſt broken the teeth « of the ungodly. 9 Beſtir thy ſelf on my b<haif, and be no longer as an 16; ſpe. | Qtaror of my miſeries. r Who art mine by ſpecial relation and * Covenant, and I am thy ſon arid thy ſervant; Lord fave thine own. ; 5 Thou haſt hitherto helped me, ao nor new leave me. #£ W! ich { implies either contempt &repro*ch, as this phraſe ſignifies, 1 Kings 1 22 24 Mich. 5. 1, John 18: 22, and 19 3. Orthe imartneſs and ſore- : neſs of the blow, whereby, as tbe next clavfe explains it, their * teeth were ſtruck out, and io they did not oniy receive hurt them.
feives, but were Gdiſenabled fron: doing that miſchief to others
which they dcfired and were accuſtomed to do. w7.e, Their ; ſtre-gth and the inſtruments of their cruelty: He compares them TO Wiid Beals,
s * S.uvation belengerh unto the LORD x : thy bleſ-* pr.,s. ' fing 7s y upon thy peopie &. oCiah. er.3:23, x Texpctr not Salvation from my forces, but from thy power Hoſ:13.4
an«! favour a'one. y Or ratier, ler #t be. So he cloſeth with aJon:2; 9;
Prayer. & Either upon niy triencs and followers, who alone are
thy people, the re1t being Rebelsto thee as well as. to me. Or,
upon al: thy peop'e J/rael, to prelzrve my Friends, te convince
21d convert mine Enemies, and to fave the body of the Nation,
which withour thy Mcrcy are likely by this Civil War to be brought
| to wuiter rune,
PSAL,1V.
; To the || ci. f muſician a on Negincth b,a pſalm of Da-
{ vid. # The Maſter or D're&our of the ſacred Muſicians and Muſick o
| the Temple: :t w. om tee 1Chron: 6: 31. and 15: 16, 17, and
25: I, 2, 2 Chron: 20: 21. <Nd 34+ 12, 13; Neb. To him that over«
. cometh, or excelleth, «1 tr unpreth, to wit, in' his profcfion of Mu- ſick. 6 Or, on fringea hſtruments, as 1141s word 1s tranſlated, Hab: 3: 19+ ſor the Hebrew Verc ziggen whence ti1s 1s derived, ſignifies to play withthe hand upon an Iottitu ment, Sam. 16:23.and 18: ro. This Palin 1s for the mitier or ſuvi.ance oi it much Jike the tormer, and ſeems to have been made upon the ſame or {cme other like oc= caton, when he was ciſtrefſed either by Ab/elom or by Saul, or by tome other great and powerful Enemies.
David prayeth for Audience, 1, He reproves the wicked, 2. The privi- ledge of the Godly and his Faith in God, 3. An exhortaticn to Duty, 4, 5. The ungodly ſatisfied with Earthly Blefſmgs, but the godly cannot be at refl without the favour of God, 6.7, 8. Ear me when I call O God of my righteouſneſs pr,;.; c : thou haſt enlarged me d when 1 was in diſtreſs; & 59.10,
[| have mercy upon me e and hear my prayer. 17-and c Either the witneſs and defender of my righteous cauſe: Or, 1!"
frem whoml expet& that righteous judgment and deciſion of m ſ Or, 6
cauſe,which I cannot obtain from mine Enemies, who load me ang £/99%'v
my cauſe with manifold Injuries and Calumnies. Or, O my righte.
ous Gog, Or, O God of my mercy ; which title is given to God elſe.
Wherey as P/al: 59. 10, 17. whereas this title, O God of my righteouſe
neſs, is not given to God inany other place of Scripture, Pſal; 59.
10, 17. O God, to whoſe mercy ITowe all that I have or hope for;
which was a very fit and powerful Argument in Prayer, and very
agreeable ro rhe following words,in which there is an acknowledge