AT what time, or on what occasion this Psalm was penned by David, we are not told; however the Contents of it give us to understand, that it was a time of complicated trouble with him; his Enemies were grown insolent, and gave him great molestation; and his Sins mean while pained his Conscience, and disquieted his ⟨p. 4⟩mind; it may therefore be well supposed to refer to the disturbances which were occasioned by Absaloms unnatural Rebellion, which was consequent upon, and a threatened correction for his great sin in the matter of Uriah. The Psalm therefore is a prayer of Faith with which he addresseth God in this condition; and is made up of petitions, and pleas wherewith those petitions are enforced; introduced with a profession of his recumbency on God in the midst of his distress, verse 1, 2. The Petitions, though interwoven in the Psalm, may be reduced to two heads, viz. for deliverance from his Enemies, and a discharge from the Guilt of his Sins; in each whereof he fortifies his Faith, and strengthens his importunity with suitable arguments. Our Text is a Petition of the latter sort. In the words we may observe;
AT what time, or on what occasion this Psalm was penned by David, we are not told; however the Contents of it give us to understand, that it was a time of complicated trouble with him; his Enemies were grown insolent, and gave him great molestation; and his Sins mean while pained his Conscience, and disquieted his ⟨p. 4⟩mind; it may therefore be well supposed to refer to the disturbances which were occasioned by Absaloms unnatural Rebellion, which was consequent upon, and a threatned correction for his great sin in the matter of Uriah. The Psalm therefore is a prayer of Faith with which he addresseth God in this condition; and is made up of petitions, and pleas wherewith those petitions are enforced; introduced with a profession of his recumbency on God in the midst of his distress, verse 1, 2. The Petitions, though interwoven in the Psalm, may be reduced to two heads, viz. for deliverance from his Enemies, and a discharge from the Guilt of his Sins; in each whereof he fortifies his Faith, and strengthens his importunity with suitable arguments. Our Text is a Petition of the latter sort. In the words we may observe;
