Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 1. Many a time have they afflicted me ] The Israelites had been generally in affliction or captivity from the earliest part of their history, here called their youth. So Hos. ii. 15: "She shall sing as in the days of her youth, when she came up out of the land of Egypt." See Jer. ii. 2, and Ezek. xvi. 4, &c.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-4 - The enemies of God's people have very barbarously endeavoured to wea out the saints of the Most High. But the church has been alway graciously delivered. Christ has built his church upon a rock. And the Lord has many ways of disabling wicked men from doing the mischief the design against his church. The Lord is righteous in not sufferin Israel to be ruined; he has promised to preserve a people to himself.
Original Hebrew שׁיר7892 המעלות4609 רבת7227 צררוני6887 מנעורי5271 יאמר559 נא4994 ישׂראל׃3478
