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What he asks for himself is the common lot of all the pious.
Extend these blessings to all Thy people in all their distresses.
God displays openly His purposed goodness to His people.
The sorrows of the impenitent contrasted with the peace and safety secured by God's mercy.
On the contrary, the good are not only blessed, but made to see the ruin of their foes.
Friends desert, but foes increase in malignity.
God is not only our sole help, but only worthy of praise.
yet unable to save themselves or others.
(Compare Ps 4:1; 5:1).
God answers his constant and repeated prayers.
Hence he closes with a prayer for success, and an assurance of a hearing.
Thus for new blessings will new vows of praise ever be paid.
(Compare Ps 62:1, 2).
prisoners--peculiarly liable to be despised.
The fixed orders of nature and bounds of earth are of God.
Jacob and Joseph--representing all.
fire--the effect of the "anger" (Nu 11:1).
The dog-fly or the mosquito.
(Compare Ps 74:2-7).
our strength--(Ps 38:7).
Contrasts God with his enemies (compare Ps 86:5).
early--promptly.
A further contrast with the wicked, in the lot of the righteous, safety and triumph.
my thoughts--or, anxious cares.
For He is not a local God, but of universal agency, while idols are nothing.
above all gods--(Ps 95:3).
shadow...declineth--soon to vanish in the darkness of night.
Literally, "righteousness and judgments," denoting various acts of God's government.
(Compare Ex 12:33; De 11:25).