Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 5. The sorrows of hell ] lwa ylbj chebley sheol, the cables or cords of the grave. Is not this a reference to the cords or ropes with which they lowered the corpse into the grave? or the bandages by which the dead were swathed? He was as good as dead.
The snares of death prevented me. ] I was just on the point of dropping into the pit which they had digged for me. In short, I was all but a dead man; and nothing less than the immediate interference of God could have saved my life.
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.
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