8 Ler deſtruction come upon him o F at unawares, + Hebs "|| and * let his net that he hath hid, catch himſelf : intro which he! that very deſtruction let him fall. ——* -* knoweh ot
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p In and for his Glory and Service, which ſhall be advanced by this means, and for his favour to me, otherwiſe I am far from re»
joycing 1n their Calamities. 2 io All my bones q ſhal fay r, LORD, who +5 like
unto thee, which detlivereſt the poor from him thar is too ſtrong for him, yea» the poor and the needy from him that {poileth him. | q 7.e. My whole Body, by a Synecdoche, as Pſal: 34+ 20s as well as my Soul, mentioned verſe 9. I will glorifie thee, both with my Soul and with my Body. r Speechis aſcribed to the Bones fi- guratively, as elſewhere they are ſaid ro fear and to rejeyce, Pſalms 6. 2.and 5r. 8. and as the Lons are faid to bleſs, Job 31. 20, If they could ſpeak they would exprefs thy Praiſes, becauſe having been _ dryed up with forrow, they are now refreſhed by thy mercy. ” — "_ 11 Falſe + wicneſſes did riſe up; | they laid co my 4Heb.wird | charge things that I knew not /. n-ſſis of JS They accuſed me to Saul of Treachery and deſigns againſt his wrong. Crown and Life, and other Crimes whereot I was wholly innocent THeb.?
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and ignorant. : a:ked me. 12 * They rewarded me evil for good 7, to the j *#L,28.908 | ſpoiling of my Soul «. + on F |
t For the good Offices which I did to divers of them when I ,.- had Favour and Power in Sawls Court and Camp. «4. e. To the ſrripping of my perſon of all my Comforts and Hopes, and of my Life it telfe
13 But #s for me, * when they were ſick x, my clo- «7,4, ., thing was ſackcloth y : I || humbled my foul & with 2x.”
faſting and my prayer returned into mine own boſloms. | Or, *.| x Or in any other great miſery. y Which was the Habir of «ffi@ea. Mourners, Gen 37. 34+ Mat. 1t. 21. Rev. 11. 3. 2 Heb. I aftlict- | ed my Soul ( of which phraſeſee Lev. 16. 29, 31. and 23. 27, 32s | &c.) partly with faſting, and partly with Compaſſion and fervenc Prayers for them. a According to this Tranſlation the Senſe may : be this, And, or But z or, Although my Faſtings and Prayers did” «= them no good,neither abated their malice, nor prevailed with God for them, ſo far as I delired, but returned ro me without ſucceſs, like a Gift fent to an uncivil perſon, who diſtainfully rejects it, and returns it to the Giver. But, 1. This is not true, . that his Prayers returned empty to him, and did them no good, © for they
thy providence effeCting it ; for Gods ſaying or ſpeaking is oft
meant of his doing, becauſe his word is ſufficient for the doing of
whatſoever he plcaſeth, "40153 4 * Lec them be confounded f and put to ſhame, that 6/8 2 ſeek after my ſoul ; let them * be turned back g, and "4*:5-brought to confuſion, that deviſe my hurt.
f 7. &« Fruſtrated in their wicked deſigns and hopes againſt me. Concerning this and the like, and following Imprecations, which may ſeem itrange and ſevere, it muſt be conſider:d, 1. That they did not proceed from any paſſionate or revengeful Spirit in David towards his Enemies ( from which how free he was appears not only from his own words here, v. 12; i3, 14. but from the whole courſe of his Life, and the frequent Inſtances mentioned in his Hiſtory, of his meek and merciful Carriage to his Enemies, when they were in his power ) bur from his Zeal for Godgind for Piecty and Juſtice, to which they ſhewed themſelves to be conſtant and implacable Adverſaries, and by the direftion of the Propheti-
; both in the foregoing and following words, he is only deltcribing*
; words otherwiſe. either, 1, Thus, 4nd my prayer in my Bojom reture
cal Spirit of God wherewith he was indued, which Spirit did ex- atly know the condition of his Enemies, and that thoſe againſt ' wnom they are levelled, were hardened and incurable. 2. That they contain nothing but a Prayer to God, that he would accoms-! Plith his own Threatnings, and execute his own Law of Reralia- tion, of Eye for Eye, and Tooth for Tuoth, and ſo briog upon them ' the Evils which they deſigned againſt him- Which aiſo was of: great and good uſe, both to glorifie Gods Juſtice,and to warn and reform other ſinners by the terror of their Example. 3'Thar they. may be taken only for predictions, as hath been obſerved before upon the like occaſion. g Either, 1. Stopped or hindred in the execution of their wicked deſign. Or rather. 2. ( which is more ſuitable to the Context) diſcomfited and put to flighr,as this phraſe 1s frequently uſed, as P/al: 9g: 3. and 79. 2. and 78. 9. 1/a: 42. 27. Jer: 46: 's5, 21,
Job 21: 5 * Ler them be as chaff before the wind b, and let 1... the angel ofthe LORD i chaſe them. 4. hi;e: Diſperſed and chaſed from place to placey: finding reſt
19 29:5- and ſafery no where. i Whom God uſeth to defend his people
R a, 3 and to deſtroy their Enemies. tvineſ; 6 Ler their way kbe f * dark and ſlippery /, and let ad /2;,.. the angel of the LORD perfecute them. "neſs k By which they flee, being chaſed, as was now ſaid. 1 So as , they can neither diſcern the righr path, nor be avle to ſtand in it, and much leſs to run away,etpectal.y from ſo ſwift a periccutor as Jercag,lt 2, an Angel, whereby wy mult unavoidably fall into their Enemies ; hands, and b« deſtroyed. '
| 7 For without cauſe » have they hid for me their net,
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prevailed with God for their recovery, as appears by the following Verſes. 2, This doth not ſeem to ſuit well with the Context 3 for '
what he did for them, and not whir the effe&s of it were, which he deſcribes in the ſucceeding Verſes, Others therefore render the
ned. +: e: T did daily and frequently repeat my Prayers for them, , and that not only in publick when I joyned with others, in a. Faſt-
day appointed for them, which might be done in policy. or for. oft-nration, bur'alſo in ſecret; between God and my own Soul, , and that with a fincere and hearty AffeCtion : For what is done lecret!y and affeionately, is faid to he done in rhe Boſom, Numb: