--4. Grant thee according to thine own heart g, and gui all thy counſels h.
7 i, e, That good ſucceſs which thy Heart deſires. þ Thy preſent delign for God, and for bis and thy People.
5 We will rejoice 7 in thy | falvation, and'* in the
name of our God &,we will ſet up our banners! : the
LORD fulfil all thy petitions»
iHereby they ſhew their confidence in God, and their aſſurance ofthe Victory. - k1. e; To the Honour of God, as the Conquerour. [n the way of Triumph; which among other ways was celebrated by<heſctting up of Banners or Trophies. 6 Now know I »,,chat theLORD faveth » his anoin- tedothe will hear him from his holy hill, F with the ſa- ving ſtrength of his right hand p. |
m We are already. ſure of Victory by the Conſideration of Gods power and faithfulneſs and Love to Dav:id4and to his People, They peak as one Perſon, becauſe they were unired,and Unanimous in this Prayer. - 11, e. Will certainly fave. o Our Lord and King. } This ſhews how God will -hear him, even by ſaving him with a ſtrong hands ) 7 :
7 * Some truſt q in chariots,andfome in horſes: but
hat; WE-Will remernber »the name of che Lord our God. by,
4 Or Remember, which may better be ſupplied out of the next Chitſe. r Or make mention of, towir, ſo as ro boaſt of ir, or truſt in it;>for ſ1ch things menofr remember or mention. - "8: They are brought downs and faln, but we are ri- ſen, and ſtand up right ». - [5
#5 From their Horſes and Chariots, to which chey truſted. Heb. They bewed dawp, as being unable to ſtand longer beerfe of rhen mortal Wounds: Compare Judg. 5. 27. # Stand firmly upon our Legs, and keep the fizld, as Conquerors uſe to do.
'9 Save Lord,let the king « hear us when we call.
" viEither 1. David. So the Senſe is, O Lord preſerve or aſſiſt the King, that when w2 arc diſtreſſed and Cry rohim for Help, he May be able and ready to Help us,or 2. God the Supream Monarc!; the King of Kings, and in a peculiar manner the King of 1/raelhear
and anſwer us, when we pray for our King and People And for |
the change of perſons'in this Verſe, nothing is more commons Or 3-: Chriſt called the King both in the Old and New Teſtament. But this Verſe is by diverſe learned men rendred thus, Lord ſive the King Hel i. e, The Lord ) will hear us ( Or, Let birs hear us ; For the Fu- ture Tenſe is of: put Imperatively : ) when we :r;,or call upon him
nd this verſion is very agreeable to the Hebrew Text, For where % the only ground gf the other Tranſlation is,that the Hebrew Ac
Type of Chriſt, ſo in many of theſe expreſſions he may ſeem to
6, His Confidence for further Scceſs, Tuatha; God will find ou: and conſume his Enemies 8 — (= 12. ji
He prayeth that God would exalt his Strength, that he might praiſe his it | Power, 3. We
| Wl: He king ſhal jey in thy ſtrength 6, O LORD,and in il thy ſalvation how greatly (bal he rejoyce. | th
2 Thou haſt given him his hearts deſire,and haſt not withholden the requeſt of his lips. Selahe
b Conferred upon kim, and put forth by thee, ori his bekalf ab g2inſt his Enemies, :
3 For thou preventeſt bim c with the bleſſings of
_— d; thou ſetteſt a crown of pure e gold on his head, :
c Or,didſt prevent him, Crowning him with manifold blefſings,both more and ſooner, than he either deſired or expe&ed, ſurpriziag him with the Gift of the Kingdom, and with many happy Succefles, d1.e. With excellent Bleſſings, Or with abundance ( as this Word * both in Hebrew and Greek 1s ſometimes uſed, as Pſal. 84. 6. Rome 15, 29- 2 Cor, 9+ 5 , 6.) of Gd. e Either 1: intoken of Victory. Or rather 2. As an Enſign of Royal Majeſty conferred upon him.
4 He asked life of thee f, and thou gaveſt ic him,even - © _ - length of days for ever and everre. ® P[:G1; 6s f He asked only the preſervation of that ihort and mortal Life,
which was oft expoſed to utmoſt Perils. g Either 1.in his Poſteri.
ty, in, whom Parents are commonly ſaid to live, Thou gaveſt the Kingdom not only to himſelf for a feiſon, as thou didft to Saul, bur
to him, and to his ſeed for ever. © Orrath=r 24 in his Perſon;for this
giving Anſwers to Davids ackings And the thing which David aske
ed ot God, was not the Kingdom (wherein God had prevented his
Prayers, and gratited what David dutſt not have preſumed to ask )
but only Life, or the ſaving and prolonging of his Life, which his Enemiesdeſigned to take away. Thou gaveſt him a long Life and
Reign here, and afrer that thou didſt tranſlate him to thy Heaven-*
ly Kingdom. to live with thee for ever. But this was more emis»
nently fulfilled in Chriſt,who asked of his Father Life or to be ſaved
from Death, Heb. 5. 7. though with ſubmiſſion to his Will; But his
Father, though he taw it fit and neceſlary to take away his Tempo»
ral Life, yer he inſtantly gxve him anather, and that far more noble
inſtead of it, even the perfect poſſeſſion of an everlaſting and
moſt glorious Life, both in his Soul and Body at his right hand.
s His glory h ;s great in thy falvatioa 5, Honour and Majeſty haſt thou laid upon him &. |
hþ His Fame or Renown in the World, 7 By reaſon of thoſe great and glorious Deliverances, which thou haſt wrought both for him and by him. & Or fitted ro him,or upon him, as the Hebrew Verb fig- nifies, or made it adequate to hm. Thou haſt given him a large and nob'e Sou}, very capable of and fit for that high and Honourzb'e e. ſrate to which thou haſt advanced him,and thou haſt given him Ho. nour and Power, ſuitable to ſo excellent a Perſon, and to ſuch rich Endowments.
6 For thou haſt + made him moſt bleſted I for &
ver 92: thou hatt Þ made him exceeding glad with thy I Heb ie
COUNtEnance Ms. . Bleſſmgs. I Heb. thou haſt ſer;( or made, as this Verb is uſed, Plal, go. 5,and f Heb:
89, 42. and gt- 9. Lam. 3.45. ) him Bleſſings, 1. e. Either r. The Au« gladded ,
rhor or Inſtrument of manifo'd Bleſſings to the World, and eſpe. himwith
cially to thy,People: which David was in a good meaſure,but Chrift joys,
much mor«truly and eminently. Although this may nor feetn very
ſuirableto the Context, which only ſpeaks of the Bleſſing conferred
by God upon this King,and not at all of the Bleſſings flowing from
him to others, . Or 2. The great axample of all Blef\ings, whom the
Iſraelites inall Ages ſhal prepound to themſelves, in all their Forms
and Pronunciationsof Bleſsings, They ſhal ſay, God make thee as bleſ«
[ed as this King, Either David or the Meſsias. Compare Gen: 12: 2.
and 48: 20.0r rather mo Bleſſed, as we tranſlate ir, the abftract Form