![]() ![]() They were notorious liars and lying comprehends two of the seven things which the Lord hates. ![]() "They open their mouths against me to swallow me up, and fight against me to cut me off if they could."Ģ. They had an implacable enmity to a good man because of his goodness. They were very spiteful and malicious: They are wicked they delight in doing mischief ( v. He complains of his enemies, showing that they were such as it was fit for the righteous God to appear against.ġ. Forasmuch as God is the God of our mercies we must make him the God of our praises if all is of him and from him, all must be to him and for him. 59:10), here he calls him the God of his praise. Delay not to give judgment upon the appeal made to thee." God saw what his enemies did against him, but seemed to connive at it, and to keep silence: "Lord," says he, "do not always do so." The title he gives to God is observable: "O God of my praise! the God in whom I glory, and not in any wisdom or strength of my own, from whom I have every thing that is my praise, or the God whom I have praised, and will praise, and hope to be for ever praising." He had before called God the God of his mercy ( Ps. 1): "Hold not thy peace, but let my sentence come forth from thy presence, Ps. It is the unspeakable comfort of all good people that, whoever is against them, God is for them, and to him they may apply as to one that is pleased to concern himself for them. In singing this psalm we must comfort ourselves with the believing foresight of the certain destruction of all the enemies of Christ and his church, and the certain salvation of all those that trust in God and keep close to him. ![]() He concludes with a joyful expectation that God would appear for him ( v. He prays for himself, that God would help and succour him in his low condition ( v. He prays against his enemies, and devotes them to destruction ( v. He lodges a complaint in the court of heaven of the malice and base ingratitude of his enemies and with it an appeal to the righteous God ( v. The rest of the prayers here against his enemies were the expressions, not of passion, but of the Spirit of prophecy. Whether David penned this psalm when he was persecuted by Saul, or when his son Absalom rebelled against him, or upon occasion of some other trouble that was given him, is uncertain and whether the particular enemy he prays against was Saul, or Doeg, or Ahithophel, or some other not mentioned in the story, we cannot determine but it is certain that in penning it he had an eye to Christ, his sufferings and his persecutors, for that imprecation ( v. ![]()
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