David bleſſiug God for his mercy to him in his ways, and Government, Confefſerh his own, and mans nothingneſs, 1 4. prayeth that he would deliver him from his powerful enemies, 5 8 ard promiſeth to praiſe him, 9 11. The happineſs of that Kingdoms whoſe God is the Lord, '2 -—— I5.
Run be the LORD + my ſtrength, * which teach- --
ech my hands f to war, ad my fingers to fight. + Heb: |
'a Who haſt given me that kill in military conduE and that 7 rock,
dexterity in the management of my weapons, which was wholly. SAINe2
untuitable to and much above my education and former courſe of PHeb ; hte. \
2 * || My goodneſs and my fortreſs, my high tower _ "AY
and my deliverer, my [hield; and he in whom TItwuſt:* ; 5
who {ubdueth my peopie under me c. . 22.4 b Or, my mercy; or, the God of my mercy, as God is called Pſal: 40» 48. . 59. 19, 17. The name of God being eaſily underſtood from the || Or, m1 foregoing verſe: Or, he whois exceeding good or merciful to me, Werey. as good as goodneſs it ſelf : the 2bſtra& being pnt for the concrete, as 1t is frequently in ſpeeches of God, who 1s called Wiſdom, Truth, Goodneſs, &c. and ſomerimes of men, as P/al: 12. 2. Prov. 19. 29. where faithfulneſs and uprightneſs are put. for faithful and upright men, © Who haſt diſpoſed my peoples hearts to receive and obey me as their King. | ; | 3 * LORD, whatis man &, chat thou takeſt know- - _ ledge of him e ! or the ſon of man, that thou makeſt ac- * Job 7. cornt of hin f ? | | So d He 2ggravates Gods goodneſs to him expreſſed wv: 2. by the Tal, 4 conſideration of his own meanneſs. Though I am King over my peo. **©?: ©: 22 ple,yer alas I-am but a man,a baſe,finful, mortal and miſerable crea- ture,t compared with thee, leſs than nothing and.vanity. e 7. e. Haſt any care and kindneſs for. him, as words of knowledge com- monly imply in Scripture j The tame thing repeared in other words, 4 * Man is like g to vanity þ: his daysareas a ſhadow
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* Job 14, g In his nature and continuance in the world: h Or, to a vapor ÞC 36.8;
declineth, as Pjal: 102. tr. & 109. 23, that groweth lets and lefs
tillirt be quite our offighrt and lo}.
5 * Bow thy heavens, O LORD,and come down +: * pr 13.95 * touch the mountains, and they thall ſmoke /. * Pl. 104s kT» help me, before it be too late, remembring whar a frail 32. : and perithing creature I am. / Or, that they may joke : or,omd let
them ſmoke, as Sinai did at thy glorious appexrance, Exon: 19. 18.
fort. k Or, is aftoniſhed. ſn: % 5 I * remember the days of old }, I meditate onallth
works; I muſe on the works of thy hands,
This is a figurative and Poerical defcripricn of Gods coming to take Vengeance upon his cncinics, which 15 continued 11 the next
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6 * Caſt forth lightning,and ſcatter thems ſhoot out thine arrows ww, and deſtroy them. m Thy thunderbolts which oft accompany the lightnings and thunder. 7 * Send thinef hand fromabove,rsd me,and deliver
5: meout of great waters from the hand of tran gechildren
z Either ofthe Heathen nations which envy and hate me : or of
the revellious Hraclires, who, though they profets themſelves to be the Lords people, yet in truth and for their carriage to me are like the barbarous Heathens.
8 Whole mouth ſpeaketh vanity o : and their right
hand p zs a right hand of falſhood 4.
o Either, 1. vain brags and threatnings which ſhall come to no- thing : Or,2. vain and deceitful promiles or profeſſions of friend- ſhip. pHere mentioned either, 1. as it is uſed in ſwearing, ro note the ir perjury : or rather, 2. as an inſtrument of ation. q De- ceiving either, 1. themſelves, by being unable to do what they de- figned : or, 2. others, by not giving them that help which they promiſed ro them.
9 1 will * ſing a new ſong uto thee r, O God: upon
Pal: 33* a pfaltery, and an inſtrumeat of ten ſtrings will I ſing
praiſes unto thee. | + When thou haſt granted this requeſt of mine, v: 7, 8. which I know aſſuredly thou wilt do. Io It # hb: that giveth || ſalvation unto kings : who delivereth David his ſervant from the hurtful ſword. s Who are not nreſerved by their own power or prudence, by Gods ſpecial providence, which for the publick good world watcheth over them. | «7 1x Rid me, and deliver me from the handof ſtrange
children t, whoſe mouth ſpeaketh vanity,and their right hand is a right hand of falſhood. e And upon theſe accounts grant me the mercy which I deſired before, and now again do repcar. 12 That our ſons may be as plants grown up in their youth z« ; that our daughters x may be as corner-{tones
ſhed after the ſimilicude of a palace y. his mercy I beg nor onely for my own ſake,butfor the ſake of thy people, that thine and our enemies being ſubdued, and peace eſtabliſhed in the land, thy people may enjoy thoſe bleſſings which thou hoſt promiſed ro them ; and particularly, that our ſons, which are the ſtrength and ſafety and hopes of a nation, may be lke plants, flouriſhing and thriving and growing in height and ſtrength, as plants do zn th:ir youth, and they onely ; for when they grow old, they wither and decay. x Upon whom the hope of poſterity depends. y Strong and beautiful, and adorned with all the ornaments belonging to their ſex.
13 That our garners may be full affording Þ all man- ner of ſtore : that our ſheep may bring forth thouſands and ten thouſands in our ſtreets z.
z So as they may fill our ſtreets, being brought in hither. for food to the Towns and cities. Or # our folds or ſtables, as the Chaldece 2nd others render at; or, as the LXX and others, in their ( or rather. iz our, as it is in the Hebrew ) outlets or outgo.ngs, i: e: in the fields where they abide.
14 That our oxen may be Þ ſtrong to labour a: hat #bere be no breaking in b, nor going out c ; that here be no complaining d in our ſtreets.
- 8 Heb. laden, either with fleſh and fat, as many underſtand it:
but