The ARGUMEN 7. He occaſion of the Pſalm is manifeſt from the body of it ; and it ſeems to have been a dangerous attempt, and conſpiracy of Ayers neighbouring Nations againſt Iſrael or Judah, Probably it was that which is mentioned 2 Chron. 20. wherein all the people here mentioned migat be ingaged, though all of them be not there exprefled ; this being uſual in the ſacred Hiſtorians for the larter to record ſome paſſages which the former omitted. Or it may belong toſome other Hiſtory. Or it may have a more general reſpeCt un- to the ſeveral Enterprizes and Combinations of all theſe people a= gainſt chem, ſome, at one time, and ſome at another. A Song or Pſalm || of Aſaph. The Churches complaint to God of her Enemies conſpiracies, temomas J, Her Prayer againſt Oppreſſours, g ===m=—=—=15 That God would fill them wi: h ſhame, and make them know that he alone is Jehovah, 16-18,
E=p not thou ſilence a, O God: -hold not thy peace
hb. and be not ſtill c, O God.
@ Plead for us. not by words, but by thine Afftions- b Or, be not deaf, to our Prayers, and to the blaſphemies of thine and our Encmics. © i. & UnaGive and unconcerned for us.
2 For lo, thine enemies 4 make arumult e; and they
that hate chee, have lift up the head f.
d They are not only enemies to us thy people, bur alſo to thy Will, and' Name, and Glory. e Or, make a rumultuors noiſe both with their Tongues reproaching thee, and threatning us, and with their Arms. f Are grown potent, and inſolent and ſcorntful.
23 They have taken crafty counſel againſt thy people,
and con{ulted againſt thy hidden ones g. :
g i.e. Thy people of Iſrael, as it is explained in the foregoing words, and 1n the next Verſe; who are called God's hidden or ſecret ones, to intimate the ſingular care and reſpe& which God hath to them, as to his peculiar treaſure,. as they are called, Exodus 19. F. Pjalni 135. 4. whom he will hide and preſerve in the ſecret of his preſence, and under the ſhaddow of his wings; and withal to note
their folly in ſeeking the deftruQtion of thoſe whom God was in--
d and reſolved to proteQ. wh They haveſaid, Come, and let us cut them off from
beinp a\nation : that the name of Iſrael may be no more in'remembrance þ. = : þ Whereby they ſhewed both their implacable rage and malice,
2nd their great aſſurance of ſucceſs. ; 5 For they have conſulted together with one | cen-
ſent : they are confederate againſt thee 7+ 5 # They have laid aſide all their private quarrels and animoſities,
and agreed together againſt thee. : 6 The rnabies k of Edom /, and the Iſhmaelites
22, of Moab, and the Hagarenes.
& Pur for the people dwelling in them, as Job 12, 6. Prov. 14. IT, Hab.3. 7. I Called rhe: Children of Seir, 2 Chron, 20. m Some of the poſterity of 1bmael, called by their Father's Name, as others of them are ſuppoſed by divers to be called Hagarens from their Grand-mother Hagar. See 1 Chron. 5. 10. 20. -
7 * Gebaln, and Ammon, and Amalek, the Phili-
ſtines with the inhabitants of 'Tyre. ;
s Either, 1, The Giblites, or Gebalites dwelling near Zidon, of whom 1 Kings 5. 18. Exck. 27. 9 Or, 2+ An Arabian people ſo called by ancient Writers dwelling in the Southern Border of Ca- aan, where moſt of the people here mentioned had their abode. Ver ſorne of theſe were in the Northern parts, and not far from the other Gebal, as ſome of the Phliſtins and the Tyrians.
$ Aflur alſo is joyned with thems: Þ they have
holpen the children of Lot p. Selah.
o Fa their Counſels, and poſſibly with ſome of their Forces,tho not ſo openly and powerfully as afterwards. p Moab and £mmon, who were the principal parties in that War, 2 Chron. 20« Called here the Children of Lee, to intimate their horrible degeneration their pious Progeniters. TD 3 ; Do gar them as wnto the * Midianites 8 as to * Sr-
as ts Jabin, ar the brook of Kiſon. ro Whichq periſhed at En-dor: they became as dung ther, . 1: The Midianites Or rather, 2+ Jabin and Siſera, wks —_ overthrown ncar Taanach and Megiddo, Judges 5. 19. nigh unto which places was this Endor, as appears from Joſ. 17. 11. » They were trodden under foot, and their Carkaſſes left unburied. .
Compare 2 Kings 9. 37- Jer. 8. 2 and 16. 4. 1: Make their nobles like * Orb, and like Zecb ;
L M Ss.
yea, all their princes as * Zebah, and as Zalmunn:.
12 Who faid, let us take to our ſelves the houſes of ? God s in poſſeflion :
5 The Houſes and Lands of the Iſraelites. which their God, as they pretend, gave them in Canaan, to which they have no right. ful Title. For that we ſee was formerly obje&ed by the Amme. mitery Judges 11.13. who were a chief party in this War. So they ſeem to call them houſes of God, by way of irony and deriſion,
13 O my God, make them like a wheel :: as the ſtuble before the wind. | _ * Whereas they promiſe to themſelves a ſure and firm poſſeſſion in our Land, let them be like a wheel, or # round ball, which being once tumbled down from the top of an hill, runs down with great force and ſwiftneſs, and ſtays not till it comes to the bottom, and and there alſo is very-unſtable, and ſoon removed.
14 As the fire burneth the wood, and as the flame ſetteth the mountains « on fire ;
u Underſtand by a Metonymy the Woods or Foreſts upon the Mountains, which in thoſe hot Countries, when they had once taken fire, either by Lightning, or by the deſign of Men, or by any accident, did burn with great ſpeed and irreſiftible violence.
IF SO perſecute them with thy tempeſt, and make them afraid with thy ſtorm.
16 Fill their faces with ſhame : that they may ſeck thy name x, O LORD.
_ * That being diſappointed of their hopes, and diſcerning the 1mpotency of their Idols, they may own and worlhip thee as the only true God.