Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 1. A people of strange language ] This may mean no more than a barbarous people; a people whom they did not know, and who did not worship their God. But it is a fact that the language of the Egyptians in the time of Joseph was so different from that of the Hebrews that they could not understand each other. See Psalm lxxxi. 5; Gen. xlii. 23.
The Chaldee has here yarbrb ym[m meammey barbarey, which gives reason to believe that the word is Chaldee, or more properly Phoenician. See this word fully explained in the note on Acts xxviii. 2. My old Psalter understood the word as referring to the religious state of the Egyptians: "In gangyng of Isrel oute of Egipt, of the house of Jocob fra hethen folke".
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-8 - Let no opinion of our own merits have any place in our prayers or in our praises. All the good we do, is done by the power of his grace; an all the good we have, is the gift of his mere mercy, and he must have all the praise. Are we in pursuit of any mercy, and wrestling with God for it, we must take encouragement in prayer from God only. Lord, do s for us; not that we may have the credit and comfort of it, but tha they mercy and truth may have the glory of it. The heathen gods ar senseless things. They are the works of men's hands: the painter, the carver, the statuary, can put no life into them, therefore no sense The psalmist hence shows the folly of the worshippers of idols.
Original Hebrew לא3808 לנו יהוה3068 לא3808 לנו כי3588 לשׁמך8034 תן5414 כבוד3519 על5921 חסדך2617 על5921 אמתך׃571
