Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 1. I will love thee ] Love always subsists on motive and reason.
The verb µjr racham signifies to love with all the tender feelinys of nature. "From my inmost bowels will I love thee, O Lord!" Why should he love Jehovah? Not merely because he was infinitely great and good, possessed of all possible perfections, but because he was good to him: and he here enumerates some of the many blessings he received from him.
My strength. ] 1. Thou who hast given me power over my adversaries, and hast enabled me to avoid evil and do good.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-19 - The first words, "I will love thee, O Lord, my strength," are the scop and contents of the psalm. Those that truly love God, may triumph in him as their Rock and Refuge, and may with confidence call upon him. It is good for us to observe all the circumstances of a mercy whic magnify the power of God and his goodness to us in it. David was praying man, and God was found a prayer-hearing God. If we pray as he did, we shall speed as he did. God's manifestation of his presence i very fully described, ver. #(7-15). Little appeared of man, but much of God, in these deliverances. It is not possible to apply to the histor of the son of Jesse those awful, majestic, and stupendous words whic are used through this description of the Divine manifestation. Ever part of so solemn a scene of terrors tells us, a greater than David i here. God will not only deliver his people out of their troubles in du time, but he will bear them up under their troubles in the mean time Can we meditate on ver. 18, without directing one thought to Gethseman and Calvary? Can we forget that it was in the hour of Christ's deepes calamity, when Judas betrayed, when his friends forsook, when the multitude derided him, and the smiles of his Father's love wer withheld, that the powers of darkness prevented him? The sorrows of death surrounded him, in his distress he prayed, Heb 5:7. God made the earth to shake and tremble, and the rocks to cleave, and brought his out, in his resurrection, because he delighted in him and in his undertaking.
Original Hebrew למנצח5329 לעבד5650 יהוה3068 לדוד1732 אשׁר834 דבר1696 ליהוה3068 את853 דברי1697 השׁירה7892 הזאת2063 ביום3117 הציל5337 יהוה3068 אותו853 מכף3709 כל3605 איביו341 ומיד3027 שׁאול׃7586 (18:2) ויאמר559 ארחמך7355 יהוה3068 חזקי׃2391
