L Van vi. Et veniat super me. Et thy loving mercy come alfo unto me, O Lord: even thy falvation, according unto thy word, 2 So fhall I make answer un 2 [Thofe who reproach and flander me, -to [my blafphemers:] for my for my confcientious truft is in thy word. See Blafpheme, &c. in 3[O take not the word of thy truth utterly out of my mouth: for my hope is in thy judgments.] behaviour toward thee] Vocabulary. 3 [Let me never want a juft occafion to fpeak of thy faithfulnefs in performing thy Promifes; for my hope is in the mercy and equity of thy Proceedings with thofe who fear thee.] See Stanza He, ver. 7. 4 So fhall Lalway keep thy law: yea, for ever and ever. 5 And I will walk [at liberty:] for I feek thy command ments. 6 I will fpeak of thy tefti- 7 8 [*My hands also will I lift s [With cafe and chearfulness.] 8 [I will folemnly engage my felf by Oath ments.] To *lift up the to keep thy Command Hand was a Ceremony Action, Gen. xiv. 22. Zain vii. Memor efto fervi tui. [Promises.] 2 [Revived, comforted, enlivened.] 4 [The eternal, un See 2 The fame is my comfort in my trouble: for thy word hath [quickened ] me. 3 The proud have had me exceedingly in derifion yet have I not fhrinked from thy law. 4 For I remembred [thine judgments,] O alterable equity of thy everlasting 3. Lord: and received comfort. 6 Thy ftatutes have been my fongs in the house of my pilgrimage. 7 I have thought upon thy Name, O Lord, in the nightfeafon: and have kept thy law. 8 This I had: because I kept thy commandments." Portio mea, Domine. TH Hou art my [portion,] to keep thy law. 2 I made my humble petition in thy prefence with my whole heart: O be merciful unto me according to thy word. 3 I called mine own ways to remembrance: and turned my feet unto thy teftimonies. 4 I made hafte and prolonged not the time to keep thy commandments. * The congregations of the ungodly have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law. 6 At midnight I will rife to give thanks unto thee: becaufe of thy righteous judgments. 7 I am a companion of all them that fear thee: and keep thy commandments. 8 The earth, O Lord, is full of thy mercy: O teach me thy ftatutes. S *The Congregations of the ungodly.] He pro bably means Saul's wicked Courtiers. Teth ix. Bonitatem fecifti: Lord, thou haft dealt graciously with thy fervant! according unto thy word. 2 Olearn me true underftanding and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments." 3 Before I was troubled, I went wrong but now have I kept thy word. ...bu 4 Thou art good and gracious: O teach me thy ftatures. 5 The proud have imagined a lie against me: but I will keep thy commandments with my whole heart. 26 [Their heart is as fat as brawn]: but my delight hath been in thy law. 2 Commandments here fignifies Promifes, orCommandments with. Promise, as Pfal. cxi. 7. 6 [Their Minds are as fenfelefs, and their Confciences as hardened, as the Fat of the moft pamper'd and furdy Animals.T Mem. That there is little or no fenfe in the fat Parts of any Creature: Hence the Ancients faid of any very dull Fellow, that he had [a fat Wit:] And futther, David intended by the Hebrew Phrafe to exprefs the hardinefs, as well as folly of Sinners. See Notes in Vindication. 7 It is good for me that I have been in trouble: that I may learn thy ftatutes. 8 The law of thy mouth is dearer unto me: than thoufands of gold and filver. Evening Prayer. Jod x. Manus tua fecerunt me. 3[Proceedings with me.] See Stanza vii. Zain, ver. 4. 7 Become my Friends.] 8 [Sincere.] THY Hy hands have made me and fashioned me: Ogive me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments. 2 They that fear thee will be glad when they see me: because I have put my truft in thy word. 3 I know, O Lord, that thy judgments] are right: and that thou of very faithfulness haft caused me to be troubled. 4 O let thy merciful kindnefs be my comfort: according to thy word unto thy fervant. 5 O let thy loving-mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight. 6 Let the proud be confounded, for they go wickedly about to deftroy me: but I will be occupied in thy command ments. 7 Let fuch as fear thee, and have known thy teftimonies: [be turned unto me.] 8 Olet my heart be [found] in thy ftatutes: that I be not afhamed. Caph. M Caph xi. Defecit anima mea. Y foul hath longed for thy falvation: and I have a good hope because of thy word. 2 Mine eyes long fore for Tthy word]: faying, O when wilt thou comfort me? 3 [For I am become like a bottle in the fmoke]: yet do I not forget thy ftatutes. is foon 4 [How many are the days of thy fervant] when wilt thou be avenged of them that perfecute me? 5 The proud have digged ¡Pits for me?. which are not 2_[The fulfilling of thy Promife.] 3 [For I am even like a Bottle made of a raw Skin, which being hung in the Smoke parch'd and shrivel'd.] 4 [How long is the time of my Punishment nifies, Job xviii. 20. to laft? So Day fig Fer. L. 276 5,8. After,] that is, according. after thy law. are directly contrary to thy Law. This is a figurative way of Expreffion, not unufual in the Hebrew. So Jer. vii. 31. which I commanded them not, that is, which I had abfolutely forbid them. 6 All thy [commandments][ Promifes.] See are true: they perfecute me Stanza Teth ix. ver. a. fallly, O be thou my help. 7 They had almoft made an end of me upon earth: but I for fook not thy commandments. 8 O [quicken] me after thy loving-kindness and fo fhall I keep the teftimonies of thy mouth. 8 [Revive, or Comfort: tamed xii. În aternum, Domine. Lord, [thy word:] en- [Thy Divine Command, according to which the Sun, Moon, and Stars move or ftand ftill.] |