in our ſight, « by the + revenging of the blood of thy ? | ſervants which is ſhed. ve == s He whom they ſerved, and of whom they boaſted. He is loſt Wi and gone, or grown imporent or idle: t by the execution of his q judgments upon them according to Pſal. 9g. 16, u That we may q live to ſee it and praiſe thy name for it. i 11 Lec * the lighing of the priſoner « come before | thee, according to'thegreatnels of + thy power; + pre- + ns. ſerve thou thoſe that are appointed to die x» thine arm u Of thy poor people now in priſon, or at leaſt, in captivity. f Heb. re x Heb. the children of death, i. e. Which were either deſigned to ſerve the | death, or in manifeft danger of it, as being wholly in the power cf children of their cruel and barbarous enemies. death, | 12 And render unto our neighbours ſevenfold into their boſom ; the reproach wherewith they have re- proached the z, O Lord. / 4. e. Either, 1. Abundantly, as this Phraſe notes, 1/a. 65. 6, 7. Jer, 32. 18. Luke 6. 38. Or, 2. Senſibly, ſo as it may come home to them, and fall heavily upon them in their own perſons.
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they intimate that this deſire did'\not proceed from a revengeful mind, but from a due ſence of God's favour.
13 * So we thy people and ſheep of thy paſture will * pc 95.7: give thee thanks for ever: we will ſhew rt thy praiſe f Heb. #6 7 to all generations. Ho | ESL LEXXX tim, The ARGUMENT.
/ [ * His Pſalm was Compoſed either -1 Upon the fame occaſion with the former, to wit, the deſtruttion of Jeruſalem by the Chaldeans, as moſt conceive, Which yet ſeems not prob. ble, be«
caule here is no mention of the Temple, nor of Jerſalcm, as there ; 15 in the foregoing Pſalm; nor ofthe Tribe of Judah,which was moſt | concerned in that defoJation, bur of Joſeph, Yerſe 1. and of the Tribes of Ephra/m and Manaſth, which were carried captive long | before that time ; nor do t::e expreſſion of this Pſalm import ſuch a deſolating judgment as thoſe of the foremer de. Or, 2. Upon oc- cafion of captivity of the ten Tribes, as ſome others think. Bur | why then is Benjamin named, which is none cf that number, nor went into captivity with them, but was joyned with Juaah > Or, 3- Upon occaſion of ſome other calamity, or calamities which befel the i ribes of Ijrael after their diviſion into two Kingdoms, and be- | forethe captivity and deſtruQion ofeither of them. In which time all che evils mentioned in this Pſalm d1d befal them, ſometimes in one Tribe or part, and ſometimes in another, as is manifeſt from their Hiitory. To the chief muſician upen Shoſhannim Eduth #, Pſalm
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a It ſeems to be the name of a Muſica! Inſtrument: though many ſe- Afaphy
parate the latter part of the word from the former, and expound
Eduth, ateſtimony, or witneſs between God and kis people, of
his relation to them, and of their dependence upon him.
The Pjalmiſt bemoaneth the miſeries and jad Condition of the Church,
1 =—_—_—, That Ged's paſt manifold Mercies are changed into deſolating
Judgments, 8 13. He prayeth for deliverance out of them; with
a promiſe of Thankfulneſs, 14 19.
Ive ear, O ſhepherd of Iſrael 5, thou that leadeſt c Joſeph d like a flock ; thou that dwelleſt betweer the cherubims e, ſhine forth F.
b Thou who haſt undertaken to feed and govern thy people of = ra'l, as a ſhepherd doth his flock, now perform thine office, and reſcue thy flock from thoſe grievous Wolves which devour and de- ſtroy them. c Or,diaſt lead tormerly,though now thou haſt forſaken them. @d 7. e. The Children of Joſeph, or of 17ael, as he now ſaid, this Clauſe being but a repetition of the former in other words, Compare Pal. 77, 15+ And the name of Joſeph, the moſt eminent of the Patriarchs both for his dignity and piery and the right of pri- mogentture transferred upon him from Reuben, 1 Chron, 5. 1 iselfe= where put for all the ten Tribes, as Ezek. 37. 16, 19. Amos 5. 6, 15- and 6. 6. Zech. 10,6. Aud for all the Tribes, as Plal. 81. 5. Obad. v. 18 e Whic' were the Mercy ſear above the Ark which title he prudently and pioufly minds the ten Tribes of their revolt from God, and of the vanity of their ſuperſtitious Addareſles to their Calves at Dan and Be:hel, and of the neceſlity of their retur< ning fo the true worſhip of God before the Ack at Jcr»ſalem, if they deſired or expe&ed any relief from him. An by this title it ſeems. more than probable that this P/a/m was not made upon occaſion of the Babyloniſh Captivity, in and afrer wich time there was no Ark nor Cherubims, nor do I remember that Daniel or any Prophets did then apply themſelves to God by that Tit!e. See Dan. gf Out of the clouds wherin thou ſeemeſt ro hide thy ſelf. Shew fo: th thy power and goodneſs to and for thy poor opprefled people in the face of thine and their Enemies. ; |
2 Before Ephraim, and Benjamin, and Manaſlch,
g ſtir up thy ſtrength r, and + come and fave us.
@ 7. e, Before all the Tribes of 1ſrae!; for whom he mentions only theſe three Tribes, either 1. Becauſe of their ſpecial relation - to Joſeph kere named, Yerſe 1. Ephraim and Manaſſeh being his Sons, and Benjamin his Brother, both by his Father and Mother : Or 2. Becauſe theſe were eminent Tribes, Ephraim the Head of the King- dom of the ten Tribes; Mmmaſeh was planted and powerful on | both ſides of Jordan ; and: Benjamtn, becaute the greateſt part of Je- ryſalem and the Temple was in its lot. Or 3. With reſpet andab luſion to the ancient firuation of the Tabernacle in the wilderneſs,
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NOT, th of thy name r, and deliver us, and | purge away our -” fins for thy names fake. | 9 From whom we have oft received, and from whom alone we
where theſe Tribes were placed on the Weſt-ſide of the Taber= nacle, Numb. 2.18, &c. in which the Ark was, agree 9m was before them. So the ſence is, O thou who.didſt of old go
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forth Lef-re theſe Tribes, &*c. do ſo again at this time, Or, 4. Becauſe theſe Tribes had a greater ſhare of the Calamities here de- ſigned than others ; which might be very true, though it be not expreſled in theſacred Hiſtory,in which we have only the ſubſtance of things, and ſuch circumſtances are commonly omitted. rWhich ſcems now to be aſleep, or idle and uſeleſs.
3 Turn us again, {O God, and * ſhine, and we ſhall be ſaved.