Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 1. O Lord my God ] yhla hwhy Yehovah Elohai, words expressive of the strongest confidence the soul can have in the Supreme Being. Thou self-existent, incomprehensible, almighty, and eternal Being, who neither needest nor hatest any thing that thou hast made; thou art my God: God in covenant with thy creature man; and my God and portion particularly. Therefore, in thee do I put thy trust-I repose all my confidence in thee, and expect all my good from thee.
Save me ] Shield me from my persecutors; abate their pride, assuage their malice, and confound their devices! Deliver me - From the counsels which they have devised, and from the snares and gins they have laid in my path.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-9 - David flees to God for succour. But Christ alone could call on Heave to attest his uprightness in all things. All His works were wrought in righteousness; and the prince of this world found nothing whereo justly to accuse him. Yet for our sakes, submitting to be charged a guilty, he suffered all evils, but, being innocent, he triumphed ove them all. The plea is, "For the righteous God trieth the hearts and the reins." He knows the secret wickedness of the wicked, and how to brin it to an end; he is witness to the secret sincerity of the just, an has ways of establishing it. When a man has made peace with God abou all his sins, upon the terms of grace and mercy, through the sacrific of the Mediator, he may, in comparison with his enemies, appeal to God's justice to decide.
Original Hebrew שׁגיון7692 לדוד1732 אשׁר834 שׁר7891 ליהוה3068 על5921 דברי1697 כושׁ3568 בן־ימיני׃1145 יהוה3068 אלהי430 בך חסיתי2620 הושׁיעני3467 מכל3605 רדפי7291 והצילני׃5337
