Horn Pail Merchants in f orraign parts keep up Serm. 26, z. Dvidt denouncing of judgement againft his flanderous falfe- tongued enen-my,verf. 3, 4. What fhall be given ? intimating that he expeted fome great reward for his malice againft David., but faith the he í1:a11 have fharp arrows of the Almighty, with co .4r of j:t riper, q. d. whatever reward he have from men, this Bull be his reward from God. 3. Davidds bewailing his prefent condition,v:5,6,7.The wordsof the Text are a branch of the third general part of the Pfalm ; wherein we have D.:vid fadly breathing forth the forrow of his heart for his ab- fence ftwo the Tabernacle and the'company of good men; & his dwell- ing among and converfe with evil and wicked men, Wo is Me, &c. By foja;arning t fuppofe is implied his abfence from tome detîred ha- 'bitation, viz 7erufalem and the Tabernacle, for no man is faid to fo- Kai. 39.12. journ at home, and when he is where he wou`.d be. 105. 23. The word Mefech is taken by Expofitors either i For a pace, Heb. r t. 9. as our tranflacion carries it from the Chaldee paraphafe, which is the firfi of the ancient vcrfions that fo under{tand it: or 2: For an ex eft trabere, prey 'n of the prolonging of his foourning; for fo the word 7.s0 Ira r3. s2. fi if a to draw forth or to prolong; and thus :he Septuagint renders t , g, this place, z ocja. ipAqui fl ; Whom the Arabick Syriack and dies ejus non feelms to favoureth rfe fel v 6. M h oral bath lops dwelt, &c bar. either trahentur, i. e. 7f g on protogabun- way giv:s us the fame ground of complaint, only the firft fenfe dou- tur. Bocharci hies the ground of the Pfalmifts trouble, and the other fuggefts the ciir- 6eog.sacrpar cumtlance of the long continuance of his fojournng. I't'3' `'12' p' By Kelar is understood part of Arabia,the inhabitants whereof are 209 called or dwellers in tents, becaufe they had no fixed and %chart, ut fur. felled habitation, but were robbers and lived upon the prey. Now we are not to fuppofe that -David did really fojourn and dwell among thele barbarous roY 1e ; but he fpeaks this of his wan - dring about from place to place without any f. tied habitation ; and co fet forth the cruelty and inl:uïnanity of th>fe among whom he dwelt, he Both exprets it thus Wo it me that !dwell, &c. as if one living among nrofffed Chri{?i -ans, who deal wi.h him more like lavages than Clriitfian ,fboulci fav , Wo is me chat I fojuurn amo: g Turks and Sarac ns. And thus you fee Davids prefent condition which he bewails is his al fence from ?era fflem and the Tabernacle or place of Gods folemn worthip , and his converfe with wicked and ungodly men : and then the`.e two truths lye plain before us in the words, Ir
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