# My bones and tie bones of my Friends and Followers. Our Skin and Flcth is in a manner conſumed, and there is nothing left of us buta company of dead and dry bones. Whereby he inti- mats that their condition was deſperate. Compare Ezek. 37: 11. x Either, 1. Titerally and properly. So barbarouſly cruel were our cnemies, that they not only killed us, but left our Carkafſes un-« buried, by which means our Feſh and Sinews, ©. were conſumed Or torn 1n Pieces by wild beaſts, and our bones diſperſed upon the face of the Earth our common grave: or, if any of my followers were dead and burzed, they pulled their bones out of the grave, and ſcattered them about : or rather, 2. Metaphorically. So the ſenſe is, our caſe is almoſt as hopeleſs, as of thoſe who are dead, and whoſe bones re ſcattered in ſeveral places. y As much nes gktted and deſpilcd by them as the chips which a Carpenter makes when lie 1s cutting wood, which he will not ſtoop - to take up. Or rather, as the LXX. and Chaldee and Syriack underſtand it, and. as it is in the Hebrew, as when one ( to wit, the Husband-man ) cr:tteth and cleaveth the earth os in the earth ; which he teareth with*» Out any merey.
8 But mine eyes are unto thee, O God the LORD: _ in thee is my truſt, + leave not myſoul deſtitute z, _— z Or, naked, as this word ſignifies, Pſal: 137: 7. and as Aaron is 7? ul ſaid ro have made the people naked, Exod: 32: 25. 1. e. deprived of thy Ht Be favour and proteCtion. Or, as or pour out my ſoul, to wit, unto — , death, as this word is uſed, 1/s: 53; 12. ; 2Conſ:2 9 Keep me from * theſnare which they have laid for ,* © me, and the grins of the workers of iniquity, *P(.140!5 10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets s, whillt & 14: ; that I withal þ + eſcape. tHeb:147 a Heb: Into his nets, either into Gods nets, theRelative benig put ws
but privatively, by denying ſoftning Grace. þ Keep me not only f:om wicked Speeches, v. 3- but from all evil motions of my hearr, Which otherwiſe will draw me to many evil ſpeeches and actions. 5 Either, 1. to joyn with them is their ſinful courſes : Or, 2. to do | wickedly as they do. k Let me never enjoy ot deſire worldly com-! forts upon ſuch terms as they do, to-wit, with Gods wrath and | curſe, as inſtruments of wickedneſs, and of my own eternal des ftruftion: My affliftions are more defireable than ſuch proſperity. Let none of their iweet morſels, the pleaſures or advantages which they. gain by their' wickedaels, tempt me to approve of, or imitate rightcous their ways, :
ſoite me - *[[ Let the righteous ſmite' me 7, 3: ſhall be a kind-
Pro! 9:8: 1]0r,ter the
kindly, and 439 th and let him reprove me zt frall be an: excellent
pane: oil », which (hall not-break-my head oz for yer my pray- [precious oil Er alſoſhall be in their calamiries p.
break my {t Towit, with his Tongue byReproots,as the next cauſe explains head, &c. it, -which are called worms, Prov. 27. 6. ASI pray unto thee rhat | thou wouldſt keep! me from ſinful practices, fo I beg ir of all juſt men; taat if I do tranſyrels, 'or if by the Acts and Slindus of
without the Ancecedent, as is uſual inſuch caſes, where it 1s ealt-
ly underſtood. Or, each into his own nets, to wit, the miſchiefs
which he deſigns againſt me. b Or, together, ro wit with my fol-
lowers : or, in {:ke mauner, as T have done formerly. But this word
may ſeem to be more fitly joined to the foregoing clauſe, to whic|
it is ncxt placed ia the Hebrew, and the verſe may be and isby di-
vers both ancient and later Tranſlators, thus rendred, let rhe wicked
fal., ( Or, he wicked ſhall fall ) mto their own nets together, altogether,
or alike, one as well as another, Saz! himſelf not excepted, whom s
though I dare not deſtroy, God willjudge ) whil# that I eſcaps, am
preſerved from that common calamiry in which mine enemues ſhalt.
periſh, Which was verified by the event. For David was ſtrange-
ly kept out of harms way when Seu! and others of Davids enenues
were cut off by the Philiſtins, 1 Sam. 31. [| Or, A P S F 58 CXLILI. Palm of
[| Maſchil of David ; a prayer when he was inthe cave 4. David
> Either that of Aaullam, 1 Sam: 22. or that of Engedi, 1 Sam: 14. giving
There he m:ditated this Pſalm, which ofrerwards he more accu» K&ruction-
rate!y compoſed and committed to writing. David 1
Plal. CXL-
|
" Fa. CXLIi.
P 3 A F MI b, i
David, findinghil ni where in his flrairs and affiiciions, 1 and comforteth himſelf in pruyer to God, 11. 12.
[| Cried unto the LORD with my voice 6: with my
voice unto the LOKD did I make my ſupplication. | 2: t 6 Either, r. with the voice of my ſoul. Bur fo this addition | 111 the ſame. would be ſuperfluous, and much mrre the repetition of it,becauſe follow. that 1s neceſ{arily implied in the former word, 7 cried, and in the following, 1 make my ſuppliration. Or rather, 2. with mv corporeal voice, which the fervor of my ſoul forced me to uſe, when I could not do it w thout ſome danger, the enemy being at the mouth of the cave. And 1o this addition is emphatical, and therefore is
4 crieth
Which he mentions either, «1. as matter of terror to conſider how unlike God now wis unto himſelf and to his former deal:ngs : or, as matter of ſupport from forr1er experience, becauſe God was Either way it drives him to his prayers, which here
l 7: e: What then haſt done for thy ſervants in former won ;
6 I ſtrerch forth my hands unto thee m: * my ſoul thirfteth after thee n, as a thirſty land o. Selah
” | pray to thee fervently. Sec on Pſal. 141. 2. vour and help. o To wit, thirſtcth for rain.
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Pal. CXLI
"PREY 2 After thy fa-
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+ Heb.
from me.
after my
[ Or, lt * ;Þ,,e was no man h that would know me ; retuge | an the right : hand and
- 88 8. Pſal. 1G. 8. & 109. 31. & 121. 5. h
periſhed = { Heb. no wich is here implied. man ſought
*P[.16. 5» my portzon to ſupply me with all che good which I need and defire. 6. ,z Even in this life, wherein I aoubt not to ſee Gods goodneſs, as
| Jutely juſtifie my ſelf upon a ſevere tryal at the Tribunal of thy
repeated.
Saul was entied into the cave, 4 Sam: 24: 4,
; . : 6, 7* 2 I'* poured out cmy complaint before him: Iſhewed
before him my trouble.
"P, 102» cI did it fully and fervently and confidently. Be I When my fpirit was overwhelmed within me, then | to thee.
thou knewelſt 4 my pathe: * in the way wherein I wal- ked f have they priviiy laid a ſnare for me.