Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 1. Be merciful unto me ] I am assailed both at home and abroad. I can go nowhere without meeting with enemies: unless thou who art the Fountain of mercy and the Most High, stand up in my behalf, my enemies will most undoubtedly prevail against me. They fight against me continually, and I am in the utmost danger of being swallowed up by them.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-7 - Be merciful unto me, Of God. This petition includes all the good for which we come to throne of grace. If we obtain mercy there, we need n more to make us happy. It implies likewise our best plea, not ou merit, but God's mercy, his free, rich mercy. We may flee to, and trus the mercy of God, when surrounded on all sides by difficulties an dangers. His enemies were too hard for him, if God did not help him. He resolves to make God's promises the matter of his praises, and so we have reason to make them. As we must not trust an arm of flesh when engaged for us, so we must not be afraid of an arm of flesh when stretched out against us. The sin of sinners will never be their security. Who knows the power of God's anger; how high it can reach how forcibly it can strike?
Original Hebrew למנצח5329 על5921 יונת3123 אלם482 רחקים7350 לדוד1732 מכתם4387 באחז270 אתו853 פלשׁתים6430 בגת׃1661 חנני2603 אלהים430 כי3588 שׁאפני7602 אנושׁ582 כל3605 היום3117 לחם3898 ילחצני׃3905
