PSALMS XX Is cleaveth to my Jawes, & thou haft brought 17 medownto the duftofdeath . For dogs have compaffed me; the affembly of evill doers haveinclofed me,they lyon -like pierced my ' r 8 , hands and my feet. I may tell all my bones 19 they did behold, they did view mee. They ¡ parted my gamments among them , and for 20 my coat they caft a lot.'And thou Jehovah be not farre off: my forritude,haflen to my 21 helpe. Hid my foule from the (word, my 22 alonelyfoule from the hand of the dog.Save me from the mouth of the Libn, and from the bornes of Vnicornes, thou haft anfwe- 23 red mee. I will tell thy name to my bre- thren ; in the middeft òf the Church I will 24 praife thee. Yee that feare Jehovah, praife him; all ye feed of Jakob,honour him;& be 25 afraid of him all ye feed of Iliad. For hec hath not defpifed nor abhorred the of lift -- on of the poore affliEted , nor hid his face from him . and when he cried out unto him 26 he heard. Of thee fhallle my praife in the great Church, my vowes I will pay before 27 them that feare 'him. The meeke Ihálleate and be fatisfied, they (hall praife Jehovah that feeke him, your heart (hall live to per - 28 peruall aye. All the ends ofth e earth II-Jai re- member and rurneuhtoJehovah, and all fa- milies of the heathens (bat bow down them - 29 felves before thee. For to Jehovah,ertaines the Kingdome: and he is ruler among the 30 nations. Al the fat ones of the earth (hal eat and bow down themfelves,all that go down to the duft,(hall bend downebefore him : & 31 he that quickneth not his foule. A feed Thal J rrve him, it Thal be accounted to the Lax D 32 for a generation. They (Hall come and (hall declare his juftice to a people that fliall be borne, that he hathdone this. I Annotations. THeHindof the morning] meaning Chrifi, who as a Hind was by lewes and Gentiles, the dogs, verte 7. hunted and worreyed in the mor- ning, Iohn 18.28. and alto rote from death the third day early in the morning, Ioh. 20.1. when God had made his feet like Hindes feet, and let him on hishigh places, Palm. 18.34. Compare with this, Song.2.9. 17.8( 8.14. where Chrill is allo likened to ayoung Hart. And in Pal. 49. 15 the re furrellion is called , the morning; for then the true light of comfort and f lvaticn(hillappear. AHinde called in Hebrew Aijeleth, bath the name of proweffi or fortitude, (as in the ao verge of this Pfalme, Alaluth is fortitude,) and fo it may be understood for the ftrengtb (or fortittsde)of the near- ing, that is, the helpe and power of God to rafle up Chritt from the dead; which may be the mea- ning of the Greeke tranflation , for the morning belpe. Some of the Jewes have interpreted it , the morning farre; which (although the word be no where elle found in Scripture, for a fiar) agreeth alto to our Lord Chritt, who is intituled, the, bright morning liar, Revel ,20- r 6. Others applying this title to the Muficke retaine the Hebrew words hill ; Aijeleth hafbacbar- The Chaldee ex- poundeth it,, To praife (God) for the mighty continu- all facrifice. Verfe 2 My God, my God, érc.] Chrifk fpeaketh this Pfalme to God his Father. The Hebrew is, Æ1i, Æ/i, laemnabgbnazabtani; which words our Lord uttered on the croffe, Mat.27. 46. (fave for the later, heeufed the Syriak , fabachtani, of the fame fignification- ) At which the prophane Jewes mocked laying that hee called for Elias, Mat. a 7. 47.49 Wherefore bail thou for f keen met on, why leaveft thou me ? They are the words of faith, (hiving in tentation,and do imply both a hope of, and a prayer for deliverance, as it is no- ted on Pfalme so. r, See the like allo in Pal. 42. to. & 43.2. mf roaring] this argueth great griefe of heart,uttered with loud complaint : So P :41.38.9. and 32.3. Job 3.24 And Chrift,in the dayes of his fleth,offered up prayers, with Itrong crying and teases., ro him that was able to Cave him from death, Heb.5,7. Ver.3. no filenee to me] or,but .1 base no pence: and confequently, no refi or sari. So Iob 30.20.27. Verge 4. fitting] or fiaefl, that is, abidefl (fill one and the fame ; as Pfal.9.8, and 55. zo. and 102. 13. orfttefh to wlt,flid; as Ruth. ; . 28. that is, rifeft not up to helpenre: or fate'', that is, inhabi- ter, as Pfa1.9. s 2, and 1 32.1$. TheChaldee tran- (latet h , whichflabli'heft the World for the praifisof If- natl. thepraifet] in Greeke, the praife of Ifrael ; that is , art be to whom Ifrael frngetb all prai fis for deli- verances, and of whom Ifrael glorieth in all time of need. So Moles laid to Israel, he is thy praife,Deut.1 o.z andlr.17,r4. Verle 7. a norme] that is, make, (as the Chal- dee explaineth ir) wretched, and troddenttnderfoot. So Iob 25,6. Efay 41.14, Verle 8. make a mow] make an opening with the lip ;18 which may bee taken both for mowing or thru- fling out of the lip, and for licentious opening I thereof to fpeake reproach. wag the bead] á figne alto of fcorne, Efay 37.22. Matt. 27. 39. lob 16.4, Pfa1.44.i5, Lam -z,15. Verf9.Heconfdetulyturned] 05; rolled; that is, 9 erufted, as-in the New Teftament this phrafè is ex- plained,Mat.27.4;, where they mocke at Chritt. The Hebrew applyech this word rod or turn, fi- guratively to á confident committing of ones felge, wayes, or a &ions unto another; as here,fo in Pfalme 37. 5. Proverbes 16 3. and Gol, pro- perly is lid thou, but put for bee rolled, or (netted, as the like phrafè, make the heart of this people fat, ere. Efay 6, i o. is thus refolved, this peoples bears is waxed fat, be. Matti 3. r 5. or it isthe indefinite, totettrne for be turned; as in Eltb. 9. i 6. to f'a» d, is nfed for they flood. Dddddd 3 Verle -s7\ 2 3 4 ,i/%tlWIllinW NIIR91Ill//,/
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