I. PETITIONS FOR DELIVERANCE (1-8). The Lawless-His Violence. 1. Prayer of the Psalmist (1). 2. Plotting of the Enemy (2-3 ). The Slanders. Selah. 3. Prayer of the Psalmist (,4ab). 4. Plotting of the °nemy (4c-5 ). The Snares. Selah. 5. Prayer of the Ps:ilmist (6-7). 6. Plotting of the Enemy (8). The Schemes. Selah. II. PREDICTIONS OF DESTINY (9-13). The Loyal-His Vehemence. r. Pwiishment of the Wicked Announced (9-11). (Render the verbs as futures). 2. Preservation of the Righteous Assured (12-13). (i) Goodness of Jehovah (12). (ii) Gratitude of the Righteous (13). SUPERSCRIPT.-A Psalm of David. PRIMARY Assoc1ATION.-Written by David but the period is uncertain; it see1ns to belong to the time of the Sauline persecutions. C01npanion psalm to the next. PROPHETIC ANTICIPATION.-Carries us forward again to the pre millennial persecution of the godly Jewish remnant in the last days. We see then1 compassed by evil men and driven to Jehovah as their f . I th "B " f R so e resource. en o v10 ence pomts to e easts o ev.
- and their ruin is shown in 10, cf. Rev. viii. 5, xix. 20. Has also been applied n1essianically; 1-8 to His first advent; 9-13 to His second. It should be remembered that the Spirit of Messiah speaks in the soul exercises of the renmant in the last days. PERSONAL APPLICATION .-Preservation fr01n the plots of the perverse. The path of God's people in all ages is ver beset by the enemy with traps and snares. Satan delights to tum aside the steps of the saints (4). God Himself is our "stronghold" of salvation (7). He provides the "helmet". for our equipment (7), c£ Eph. vi. 17. Notwithstanding all they may have suffered, God's people will have abnndant reasons for giving thanks to His Name when they at last dwell in His presence (13). Wounds by words may be worse than wonnds by weapons (3). VERSE NOTES r. "man of violence," c£ 4, II, 2 Sam. :xxii. 49. 2. (b) "Every day do they stir up strife." 3. This shows them to be instruments on earth of Satan's malignant power specially characteristic of the last days; second line quoted Rom. iii. 13, from LXX. CC b' 5. gms, i.e. ai.ts or ures. 6. "I have said unto Jehovah, 'Thou art niy EL' " 7. "day of arming," c£ I Sam. xvii. 38; c£ also term used for the king's body guard, I Sam. xxviii. 2. Jehovah Himself would be such to David. Sb-9. Maclaren renders, " ... evil plan, They who compass me about lift up the head ... " ro. Fire falls from above and fire yawns below; see references above. II. "A slanderer shall not ... in the land." (b) Render "A man of violence (and) evil, He (Jehovah) shall hunt him with blow on blow." This answers to I; the hunters become the hunted. 13. "Surely," Heb. word implies "notwithstanding all."
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