Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 2. Bow down thine ear ] Listen to my complaint. Put thy ear to my lips, that thou mayest hear all that my feebleness is capable of uttering. We generally put our ear near to the lips of the sick and dying, that we may hear what they say. To this the text appears to allude.
Strong rock ] Rocks, rocky places, or caves in the rocks, were often strong places in the land of Judea. To such natural fortifications allusions are repeatedly made by the Hebrew poetic writers.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-8 - Faith and prayer must go together, for the prayer of faith is the prevailing prayer. David gave up his soul in a special manner to God And with the words, ver. 5, our Lord Jesus yielded up his last breat on the cross, and made his soul a free-will offering for sin, layin down his life as a ransom. But David is here as a man in distress an trouble. And his great care is about his soul, his spirit, his bette part. Many think that while perplexed about their worldly affairs, an their cares multiply, they may be excused if they neglect their souls but we are the more concerned to look to our souls, that, though the outward man perish, the inward man may suffer no damage. The redemptio of the soul is so precious, that it must have ceased for ever, in Christ had not undertaken it. Having relied on God's mercy, he will be glad and rejoice in it. God looks upon our souls, when we are i trouble, to see whether they are humbled for sin, and made better by the affliction. Every believer will meet with such dangers an deliverances, until he is delivered from death, his last enemy.
Original Hebrew הטה5186 אלי413 אזנך241 מהרה4120 הצילני5337 היה1961 לי לצור6697 מעוז4581 לבית1004 מצודות4686 להושׁיעני׃3467
