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Ps 57:1-11.
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2. performeth--or, completes what He has begun.
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3. from . . . swallow me up--that pants in rage after me
(Ps 56:2).
mercy and . . . truth--
(Ps 25:10; 36:5),
as messengers
(Ps 43:3)
sent to deliver him.
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4. The mingled figures of wild beasts
(Ps 10:9; 17:12)
and weapons of war
(Ps 11:2)
heighten the picture of danger.
whose . . . tongue--or slanders.
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5. This doxology illustrates his view of the connection of his deliverance with God's glory.
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6. (Compare
Ps 7:15; 9:15, 16).
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7. I will . . . praise--both with voice and instrument.
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8. Hence--he addresses his glory, or tongue
(Ps 16:9; 30:12),
and his psaltery, or lute, and harp.
I myself . . . early--literally, "I will awaken dawn," poetically expressing his zeal and diligence.
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9, 10. As His mercy and truth, so shall His praise, fill the universe.
Ps 57:1-11.
Altaschith--or, "Destroy not." This is perhaps an enigmatical allusion to the critical circumstances connected with the history, for which compare
1Sa 22:1; 26:1-3.
In Moses' prayer
(De 9:26)
it is a prominent petition deprecating God's anger against the people. This explanation suits the fifty-eighth and fifty-ninth also. Asaph uses it for the seventy-fifth, in the scope of which there is allusion to some emergency. Michtam--(See on
Ps 16:1,
title). To an earnest cry for divine aid, the Psalmist adds, as often, the language of praise, in the assured hope of a favorable hearing.
1. my soul--or self, or life, which is threatened.
shadow of thy wings--
(Ps 17:8; 36:7).
calamities--literally, "mischiefs"
(Ps 52:2; 55:10).