18, would be true, not only becauſe he ſhould not have occaſion to THeb, el, praiſe God for this deliverance, but alſo becauſe he wasin grievous'® ©" 1g0ntes cf Conſcience,& under tcrrors ofGods wrath and his eternal damnation; which being oft incident ro the ſaints cf God under the
New Teſtament, it is not ſtrange if it were ſo alſo under the Old Teſtament. Beſides he ſpeaks of the remembrance or celebration
of Gods Name and Grace in the Land of the Living, to the enlarge-
ment and edification of Gods Church, and rhe propagation of true Religion among men ; which is not done in the other life, and was
juſtly prized at ſo high a Rate by David and other holy men, to
whom therefore it muſt needs be a great grief to be for ever de-
prived of ſuch opportunities. Fcr otherwiſe David very well
knew, and firmly believed that Souls departed were not extin&, but
did go to God, Eccleſ. 12, 7. and there remember and adore and en-
Joy -" though quite in another way than that of which ke here
peaks. 6 Tam weary with my groaning, || all the night 7 [0r, «7 make I my bed to ſwim 5 ; I water my couch : with my
tears.
r He mentions this time, by way of aggravation of his miſery, becauſe that ſeaſon, which is to others by Gods appointment a time of reſt, was to him very ſad and doleful,whether from his Diſeaſe, which then came _ him more ftrongly, as it is uſual 3 or from the opportunity which the ſolitude and filence of the Night gave him to think of his own fins, or his Enemies perfidiouſneſs and ma- lice, or Gods diſpleaſure,or his future Eſtate, s To wit,wirh tears, See the like Hyperbole Jer. 94 1. Lam. 3. 48, 49. t Or, my bedſtead.
7 *Mine eye is conſumed # becauſe of grief x ; If nob _ waxeth old becauſe of all mine enemies. . © P(31.98 u Or,grown dim or dull through plenty of ſalt tears which I ſhed ; ,g. 70.
Or, through the decay of my Spirits. x (#.e, ) My grief arilingf ,m.$.17 from mine Enemies, as the next Clauſe interprets it, and from the
oppoſition againſt him, + Heb: x2 For thou LORD, wilt bleſs q the righteous: 55h crown him, favour r wilt thou F compaſs him as with a ſhield 5s. 9g (#: e: ) Thou art reſolved, and haſt engaged thy ſelf by pro-
conſideration of their multitude and rage, and falſeneſs. * Mat.7-iÞ © | Fr & 25. 8 * Depart from me y, all ye workers of iniquity 2; ,? Y for the LORD hath heard «the * voice of my weeping 5. Luke 13: | ze: ) I adviſe youfor your own ſakes to ceaſe from oppoſing or mo- 27; _ 'y leſting me, or inſulting over me, or approaching to me, with de- Pſal:119: vg In
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afarance that Ged would hear and deliver him. 5(7z,e, ) Of my fervent Prayers joined with my Tears Te” © The LORD hath heard c my ſupplication ; the LORD will receive my prayer. c And.therefore will hear, as it follows. He draws an Argu- ment from his former Experience. to Let all mine enemies be aſhamed d and fore vexed letthem return e and be alhamed ſuddenly f. ' 4 Oftheir vain hopes aad confidence of conquering and deſtroy- ing me. Or, they ſba!lbe aſhamed, becauſe of their great and un- expeQed diſappointment» e To wit,from their wicked ways, from their hoſtile and malicious praQtiſes againſt me. and ler tiem come
turn back, as it is expreſſed Pſal: 56. 9. let them be put to flight. Or, let them be converted. ( i.e ) Repent of their Sins and return to their Okcdience to me. Although ir ſeems more probable both fioin the foregoing and following words, that this 7urning 05 Ye- turning is rather penal than penitential, Or, #h-y ſha!l gurn or return. Or this Verb may be taken adverbially and jovned ro the following Verb, as ir is frequently in orher places, and bo:h may te thus rendred, Let them, or They ſhall be again aibamed, C'otied, as it were, with double ſhame. f$Sooner than I could hope, or they did expe&t
or believe. FS Av | Shiggaion « of David, which he ſang unto ths LORD, concerning the|| words bof Cujh c the Benjamite, a This ſcems to be the name of a certain kind either of Song or Tune, or Inftrument, which th-n was very well known, bur now is only matter of conje@ure ; wherewith I think it is nor fit to rrouble the unl-arned Reader ; And the learned may conſult my latin Sywpſts, b Thz falſeand flanderous Reports raifed or fo- mented by him. This was the occaſion of this Plalm.c By which he deligns either 1 Saul: whom he ri-ought 1t ind centto expreſs by his proper Name, for which he migar at this time have di- verſe rza{ens,and therefore he deciphers bim enigmatically,which is not unuſual in holy Scripture; where Babylon is called Sheſbach, Jer: 25: 26,and 51. 41. and Rome iscailzd Egypr and Sodom, and Ba, bylon in the Revelation ; and John the Bapriſt is called Elias, And he mighr call him Cuſb ; pirily,by a tacir Allufion to his Fathers Name Kkiſb; ani parrly, with reſpec to his black and wicked Dif poſition planted and firmly ri ored in him: Compare Jer. 13. 23: Amos 9: 7. Or 2. Some eminent and potent Commander or Cour- tier under Saul called C15, tizough he be not elſewhere named, it bzing the lot of many otter perſons to be named but once in Scripture. And he 1s called the Benjamite, becauſe he was one of that Tribe, in which Saul put moſt confidence: See 1 Sam: 22: 7.
The Pſalmiſt prayeth for deliverance from his perſecuting Enemigs, Iy2. and maketh aſolemn profeſſion of his Innocency "WY Faith he ſceth his Defence, 8-=-11, and the deſtrufion of his Enemies, 12==17«
() Lord my God,in thee do T put my truſt 4: ſaye me from all them that perſecute me, - and deliver me. d All my hope and confidence isin thy Favour and Faithfulneſs
to make good thy Promiſe made to me. _ : 2 Leſt he etear my foul f like aliong, renting it in