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« To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, [A Psalm] of David. » Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto [my] soul.

A Psalm of David — Quando rebellabat Sheba, saith the Syriac, made upon the occasion of Sheba’s rebellion presently after Absalom’s. Hence he cries out, as one almost overwhelmed,

Save me, O God — Thou, who delightest to save such as are forsaken of their hopes. The Fathers generally take this psalm to be prophetic touching the passion of Christ, and his praying then to the Father. David had his troubles which gave occasion to the penning of this psalm, but those were all but as a picture and prelude of Christ’s far greater sorrows, Spiritus autem sanctus manifeste se prodit in hoc psalmo.

For the waters are come in unto my soul — Ever after Noah’s flood, that dismal destruction, great and grievous afflictions were set forth by the rushing in of waters, and overwhelming therewith. God’swrath was poured upon Christ as a mighty torrent of waters, and, therefore, this expression applied to him hath a special emphasis; his soul was heavy even to the death. Fluctus fluctum trudebat, One deep called upon another, … Oh the soul of sufferings which his soul then suffered!

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I sink in deep mire, where [there is] no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

I sink in deep mire — Heb. in the mire of depth, or gulf, as Babylon was afterwards called, Isaiah 44:27 . Here he stuck, and under water, and so must perish, if he had not present help.

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I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

I am weary of mg crying — As a drowning man, while he can be heard, crieth for help.

My throat is dried — Or, parched, raucitate laborant fauces.

Mine eyes fail — With much weeping and long looking. This is a piece of the curse, Leviticus 26:16 . Christ became a curse for us, Galatians 3:13 .

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They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, [being] mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored [that] which I took not away.

They that hate me without a cause, … — Christ, besides his inward fears and griefs caused by the sense of his Father’s wrath for our sins, was set against and assaulted both by men and devils (in that three hours’ darkness especially) with utmost might and malice.

Then I restored that which I took not away. — Quod non rapui reddebam. David was dealt with as a felon or false dealer. Christ also was crucified for saying that he was the Son of God, John 19:7 , though he held it no robbery to be equal with God, Philippians 2:6 . The martyrs likewise were loaden with many calumnies and false criminations, that they might seem to suffer not as martyrs, but as malefactors.

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O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.

O God, thou knowest my foolishness — Secundum dici, non secundum esse; ironica enim est locutio. Thou knowest mine innocence, and how free I am of that folly, and those foul faults, wherewith they falsely charge me.

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Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.

Let not them … be ashamed for my sake — Give me not up to passions of dishonour, to opprobrious practices, whereby religion might be reproached, or good people reviled and abused, much less staggered and set at a stand by my sufferings.

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Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.

Because for thy sake I have borne reproach — Whatever mine enemies pretend, they strike at thee, Lord, through my sides; and for thy sake alone it is that I am so bespattled, that I am even ashamed to look any one in the face. The most innocent may, upon the fulness of an aspersion, be put out of countenance.

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I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.

I am become a stranger unto my brethren — No otherwise than as if I were a mamzer (so the Hebrews call a bastard), that is, a strange blot to the family. Christ came to his own, but they received him not; yea, his own brethren believed not on him, John 7:5 This, when the Turks read in our Gospel, they wonder; and the Jews, therefore, slander his miracles, for not so manifest as we conceive.

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