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The oppressed, and all who know Him (Ps 5:3; 7:1), find Him a sure refuge.
On the gesture compare Ps 22:7; and on the expressions of malicious triumph, compare Ps 10:13; 28:3.
rebuked--(Ps 104:7). as through the wilderness--(Isa 63:11-14).
heart is established--or, firm in right principles. see his desire--(Ps 50:23; 54:7).
The figure is changed to that of a rapacious wild beast (Ps 3:7), and then of a fowler (Ps 91:3), and complete escape is denoted by breaking the net.
an evil speaker--or, "slanderer" will not be tolerated (Ps 101:7). The last clause may be translated: "an evil (man) He (God) shall hunt," &c.
ashamed--"disappointed" in their expectation of help from their idols (see on Isa 42:17; Psalm 97. 7).
with favour--or, "acceptance," alluding to the favor shown to an acceptable offering and worshipper (Le 7:18; 19:7). shield--(compare Ps 3:3).
1Sa 18:17; 31:2 illustrate the statement whether alluded to or not. These verses are expository of Ps 7:14, showing how the devices of the wicked end in disappointment, falsifying their...
And the prevalence of injustice in heathen lands is a reason for invoking God's regard to His promise (compare Nu 14:21; Ps 7:16;18:48).
fall like, &c.--be cut off suddenly (Ps 20:8; 91:7).
Men are helpless to hurt him, if God be with him (Ps 56:9), and, if enemies, they will be vanquished (Ps 54:7).
Wherefore--"For which reason," namely, in order to intimate that Christ, the Head of the Church, is the author of all these different gifts, and that giving of them is an act of His "grace"...
This he does in part, by contrasting their ruin with God's exaltation and eternity. most high--as occupying the highest place in heaven (Ps 7:7; 18:16).
His emaciated frame, itself an item of his misery, is rendered more so as the object of delighted contemplation to his enemies. The verbs, "look" and "stare," often occur as suggestive of feelings...
Similar figures for slander (Ps 57:4; 59:7). bend--literally, "tread," or, "prepared." The allusion is to the mode of bending a bow by treading on it; here, and in Ps 58:7, transferred to arrows.
(Compare Ps 5:7). thy word above all thy name--that is, God's promise (2Sa 7:12-16), sustained by His mercy and truth, exceeded all other manifestations of Himself as subject of praise.
grieve not--A condescension to human modes of thought most touching. Compare "vexed His Holy Spirit" (Isa 63:10; Ps 78:40); "fretted me" (Eze 16:43: implying His tender love to us); and of hardened...
God is involved as if hitherto careless of him (Ps 3:7; 9:18). rage--the most violent, like a flood rising over a river's banks. the judgment...commanded--or, "ordained"; a just decision.
Contrasts his head covered by God (Ps 140:7) with theirs, or (as "head" may be used for "persons") with them, covered with the results of their wicked deeds (Ps 7:16).
your brethren--children of Abraham, as much as you. whole seed of Ephraim--They were superior to you in numbers and power: they were ten tribes: ye but two. "Ephraim," as the leading tribe, stands...
and knows they will be disappointed and in their turn (compare Ps6:3) be terror-stricken or confounded.
He owns his ill desert in begging a relief from chastisement.
ye brutish--(Compare Ps 73:22; 92:6).
His prayer is partly descriptive and precatory, partly eucharistical. Jonah incorporates with his own language inspired utterances familiar to the Church long before in Jon 2:2, Ps 120:1; in Jon...
This terrible overthrow, reaching to posterity, is due to their crimes (Ex 20:5, 6).
put...to shame--(compare Ps 6:10), disgraced.
For similar contrast compare Ps 90:2-6; 102:27, 28.
snare [and] net--for threatening dangers (compare Ps 38:12; 57:6).