Chapter 7
O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:
A. M. 2983. B.C. 1021. (Title.) Shiggaion. {Shiggaion} probably denotes a mournful song or, elegy, from the Arabic {shaga,} to be anxious, sorrowful
words
or, business.
Cush
Cush signifies black, an epithet, in all languages, when applied to the mind, expressive of moral turpitude; and therefore probably here applied to Shimei, denoting that he was a calumniator and villain.
O
13.3,5 18.28 30.2,12 43.4 89.26 Joshua 14.8 Jeremiah 31.18 Daniel 9.4,19,20 Zechariah 14.5
in
11.1 18.2 25.2 26.1 31.1 32.10 146.3-6 Isaiah 50.10 1 Peter 1.21
save
3.7 17.7-9 31.15 35.1-3 Jeremiah 15.15 20.11 1 Peter 4.19
Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
Lest
like
10.9 17.12 22.13 Deuteronomy 33.20 Proverbs 19.12 2 Timothy 4.17 1 Peter 5.8
rending
while
Judges 18.28 2 Samuel 14.6 *marg:; Job 10.7
not to deliver
Heb. not a deliverer.
O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;
if I
59.3 Joshua 22.22 1 Samuel 20.8 22.8,13 24.9 26.18,19 2 Samuel 16.7,8 Job 16.17-19
if there
66.18 1 Samuel 24.11 Job 11.14
If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)
If I
55.20 109.5 Genesis 44.4 Proverbs 17.3 Jeremiah 18.20,21
I have
1 Samuel 24.7,10,11 26.9-17,24
without
1 Samuel 19.4,5 20.1 22.14 24.11-15,17-19 25.28,29 26.21
Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.
Let
tread
44.5 60.12 Job 40.12 Isaiah 10.6 63.3 Zechariah 10.5 Malachi 4.3
lay
49.12 Job 16.15 40.13 Jeremiah 17.13
Selah
Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.
Arise
3.7 12.5 35.1,23 44.26 68.1,2 Isaiah 3.13
lift up
74.3 94.1,2 Isaiah 33.10 37.20
awake
44.23 59.5 73.20 78.65 Isaiah 51.9
to the
76.8,9 103.6 2 Samuel 17.14 *marg:
So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high.
So
48.11 58.10,11 Revelation 11.17,18 16.5-7 18.20 19.2
return
93.4 113.5,6 138.6 Isaiah 57.15
The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.
The Lord
9.8 11.4 82.1 96.13 98.9 Genesis 18.25 Acts 17.31 Romans 14.10-12 1 Corinthians 4.4,5
judge
26.1 35.24 43.1 Genesis 31.53 2 Chronicles 20.12
according
17.2,3 18.20-24 35.24-27 2 Corinthians 1.12
to mine
25.21 26.11 41.12 78.72 Proverbs 19.1 1 Thessalonians 2.10
Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
Oh
9.5,6 10.15,18 58.6 74.10,11,22,23 Isaiah 37.36-38 Daniel 11.45 Acts 12.23
but
37.23 *marg:; 40.2 1 Samuel 2.9 Romans 16.25 1 Thessalonians 3.13 1 Peter 5.10 Jude 1.1
for
17.3 44.21 139.1 1 Samuel 16.7 1 Chronicles 28.9 Jeremiah 11.20 17.10 20.12 Revelation 2.23
My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.
My, etc
Heb. My buckler is upon God.
3.3 18.1,2 84.11 89.18 Genesis 15.1
which
112.2 125.4 Job 8.6 Proverbs 2.21 11.20 28.18
God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.
or, God is a righteous Judge
If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
If
85.4 Isaiah 55.6,7 Jeremiah 31.18,19 Ezekiel 18.30 33.11 Matthew 3.10 Acts 3.19
he will
Deuteronomy 32.41 Isaiah 27.1 34.5 Ezekiel 21.9-11,23
He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.
ordaineth
11.2 45.5 64.3,7 144.6 Deuteronomy 32.23,42 Job 6.4 Lamentations 3.12,13 Habakkuk 3.11,13
persecutors
2 Thessalonians 1.6 Revelation 6.10 16.6
Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
Job 15.20,35 Isaiah 33.11 59.4,5 James 1.15
He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
made
Heb. hath digged.
35.7 119.85 Job 6.27 Jeremiah 18.20
and is
9.15,16 10.2 35.8 94.13 140.9,10 141.10 Esther 7.10 Job 4.8 Proverbs 5.22 26.27 Ecclesiastes 10.8,9
His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
36.4,12 37.12,13 1 Samuel 23.9 24.12,13 26.10 28.19 31.3,4 1 Kings 2.32 Esther 9.25 Malachi 2.3-5
I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.
according
35.28 51.14 71.15,16 98.2 111.3 145.7