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<P> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;
It seems by this, and many other psalms, that even in times of the
greatest trouble and distress David never hung his harp upon the
willow-trees, never unstrung it or laid it by; but that when his
dangers and fears were greatest he was still in tune for singing God's
praises. He was in imminent peril when he penned this psalm, at least
when he meditated it; yet even then his meditation of God was sweet.
I. He complains of the malice of his enemies, and begs mercy for
himself and justice against them,
<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ps+56:1,2,5-7">ver. 1, 2, 5-7</A>.
II. He confides in God, being assured that he took his part, comforting
himself with this, that therefore he was safe and should be victorious,
and that while he lived he should praise God,
<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ps+56:3,4,8-13">ver. 3, 4, 8-13</A>.
How pleasantly may a good Christian, in singing this psalm, rejoice in
God, and praise him for what he will do, as well as for what he has
done.</P>
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<P>To the chief musician upon Jonath-elem-rechokim,
<BR>Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath.</P>
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<P> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;
<FONT SIZE=+1>1 Be merciful unto
me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily
oppresseth me.
&nbsp; 2 Mine enemies would daily swallow <I>me</I> up: for <I>they be</I> many
that fight against me, O thou most High.
&nbsp; 3 What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
&nbsp; 4 In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I
will not fear what flesh can do unto me.
&nbsp; 5 Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts <I>are</I>
against me for evil.
&nbsp; 6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they
mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
&nbsp; 7 Shall they escape by iniquity? in <I>thine</I> anger cast down the
people, O God.
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<P> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;
David, in this psalm, by his faith throws himself into the hands of
God, even when he had by his fear and folly thrown himself into the
hands of the Philistines; it was when they took him in Gath, whither he
fled for fear of Saul, forgetting the quarrel they had with him for
killing Goliath; but they soon put him in mid of it,
<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=1Sa+21:10,11">1 Sam. xxi. 10, 11</A>.
Upon that occasion he changed his behaviour, but with so little ruffle
to his temper that then he penned both this psalm and
<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ps+34:1-22">the 34th</A>.
This is called <I>Michtam--a golden psalm.</I> So some other psalms are
entitled, but this has something peculiar in the title; it is upon
<I>Jonath-elem-rechokim,</I> which signifies <I>the silent dove afar
off.</I> Some apply this to David himself, who wished for the wings of
a dove on which to fly away. He was innocent and inoffensive, mild and
patient, as a dove, was at this time driven from his nest, from the
sanctuary
(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ps+84:3">Ps. lxxxiv. 3</A>),
was forced to wander afar off, to seek for shelter in distant
countries; there he was like the doves of the valleys, mourning and
melancholy; but silent, neither murmuring against God nor railing at
the instruments of his trouble; herein a type of Christ, who was as a
sheep, dumb before the shearers, and a pattern to Christians, who,
wherever they are and whatever injuries are done them, ought to be as
silent doves. In this former part of the psalm,</P>
<P> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;
I. He complains to God of the malice and wickedness of his enemies, to
show what reason he had to fear them, and what cause, what need, there
was that God should appear against them
(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ps+56:1"><I>v.</I> 1</A>):
<I>Be merciful unto me, O God!</I> That petition includes all the good
we come to the throne of grace for; if we obtain mercy there, we obtain
all we can desire, and need no more to make us happy. It implies
likewise our best plea, not our merit, but God's mercy, his free rich
mercy. He prays that he might find mercy with God, for with men he
could find no mercy. When he fled from the cruel hands of Saul he fell
into the cruel hands of the Philistines. "Lord" (says he), "be thou
merciful to me now, or I am undone." The mercy of God is what we may
flee to and trust to, and in faith pray for, when we are surrounded on
all sides with difficulties and dangers. He complains,
1. That his enemies were very numerous
(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ps+56:2"><I>v.</I> 2</A>):
"<I>They are many that fight against me,</I> and think to overpower me
with numbers; take notice of this, <I>O thou Most High!</I> and make it
to appear that wherein they deal proudly thou art above them." It is a
point of honour to come in to the help of one against many. And, if God
be on our side, how many soever they are that fight against us, we may,
upon good grounds, boast that there are more with us; for (as that
great general said) "How many do we reckon him for?"
2. That they were very barbarous: they would <I>swallow him up,</I>
<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ps+56:1"><I>v.</I> 1</A>
and again
<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ps+56:2"><I>v.</I> 2</A>.
They sought to devour him; no less would serve; they came upon him with
the utmost fury, like beasts of prey, to eat up his flesh,
<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ps+27:2">Ps. xxvii. 2</A>.
<I>Man</I> would swallow him up, those of his own kind, from whom he
might have expected humanity. The ravenous beasts prey not upon those
of their own species; yet a bad man would devour a good man if he
could. "They are men, weak and frail; make them to know that they are
so,"
<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ps+9:20">Ps. ix. 20</A>.
3. That they were very unanimous
(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ps+56:6"><I>v.</I> 6</A>):
<I>They gather themselves together;</I> though they were many, and of
different interests among themselves, yet they united and combined
against David, as Herod and Pilate against the Son of David.
4. That they were very powerful, quite too hard for him if God did not
help him: "<I>They fight against me</I>
(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ps+56:2"><I>v.</I> 2</A>);
<I>they oppress me,</I>
<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ps+56:1"><I>v.</I> 1</A>.
I am almost overcome and borne down by them, and reduced to the last
extremity."
5. That they were very subtle and crafty
(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ps+56:6"><I>v.</I> 6</A>):
"<I>They hide themselves;</I> they industriously cover their designs,
that they may the more effectually prosecute and pursue them. They hide
themselves as a lion in his den, that they may mark my steps;" that is,
"they observe every thing I say and do with a critical eye, that they
may have something to accuse me of" (thus Christ's enemies watched him,
<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Lu+20:20">Luke xx. 20</A>),
or "they have an eye upon all my motions, that they may gain an
opportunity to do me a mischief, and may lay their snares for me."
6. That they were very spiteful and malicious. They put invidious
constructions upon every thing he said, though ever so honestly meant
and prudently expressed
(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ps+56:5"><I>v.</I> 5</A>):
"<I>They wrest my words,</I> put them upon the rack, to extort that out
of them which was never in them;" and so they made him an offender for
a word
(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Isa+29:21">Isa. xxix. 21</A>),
misrepresenting it to Saul, and aggravating it, to incense him yet more
against him. They made it their whole business to ruin David; all
their thoughts were against him for evil, which put evil
interpretations upon all his words.
7. That they were very restless and unwearied. They continually waited
for his soul; it was the life, the precious life, they hunted for; it
was his death they longed for,
<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ps+56:6"><I>v.</I> 6</A>.
They fought daily against him
(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ps+56:1"><I>v.</I> 1</A>),
and would daily swallow him up
(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ps+56:2"><I>v.</I> 2</A>),
and every day they wrested his words,
<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ps+56:5"><I>v.</I> 5</A>.
Their malice would not admit the least cessation of arms, or the acts
of hostility, but they were continually pushing at him. Such as this is
the enmity of Satan and his agents against the kingdom of Christ and
the interests of his holy religion, which if we cordially espouse, we
must not think it strange to meet with such treatment as this, as
though some strange thing happened to us. Our betters have been thus
used. So persecuted they the prophets.</P>
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II. He encourages himself in God, and in his promises, power, and
providence,
<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ps+56:3,4"><I>v.</I> 3, 4</A>
In the midst of his complaints, and before he has said what he has to
say of his enemies, he triumphs in the divine protection.
1. He resolves to make God his confidence, then when dangers were most
threatening and all other confidences failed: "<I>What time I am
afraid,</I> in the day of my fear, when I am most terrified from
without and most timorous within, then <I>I will trust in thee,</I> and
thereby my fears shall be silenced." Note, There are some times which
are, in a special manner, times of fear with God's people; in these
times it is their duty and interest to trust in God as their God, and
to know whom they have trusted. This will fix the heart and keep it in
peace.
2. He resolves to make God's promises the matter of his praises, and so
we have reason to make them
(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ps+56:4"><I>v.</I> 4</A>):
"<I>In God I will praise,</I> not only his work which he has done, but
<I>his word</I> which he has spoken; I will give him thanks for a
promise, though not yet performed. <I>In God</I> (in his strength and
by his assistance) I will both glory in his word and give him the glory
of it." Some understand by <I>his word</I> his providences, every event
that he orders and appoints: "When I speak well of God I will with him
speak well of every thing that he does."
3. Thus supported, he will bid defiance to all adverse powers: "<I>When
in God I have put my trust,</I> I am safe, I am easy, and <I>I will not
fear what flesh can do unto me;</I> it is but flesh, and cannot do
much; nay, it can do nothing but by divine permission." As we must not
trust to an arm of flesh when it is engaged for us, so we must not be
afraid of an arm of flesh when it is stretched out against us.</P>
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III. He foresees and foretels the fall of those that fought against
him, and of all others that think to establish themselves in and by any
wicked practices
(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ps+56:7"><I>v.</I> 7</A>):
<I>Shall they escape by iniquity?</I> They hope to escape God's
judgments, as they escape men's, by violence and fraud, and the arts of
injustice and treachery; but shall they escape? No, certainly they
shall not. The sin of sinners will never be their security, nor will
either their impudence or their hypocrisy bring them off at God's bar;
God will in his anger cast down and cast out such people,
<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ro+2:3">Rom. ii. 3</A>.
None are raised so high, or settled so firmly, but that the justice of
God can bring them down, both from their dignities and from their
confidences. <I>Who knows the power of God's anger,</I> how high it can
reach, and how forcibly it can strike?</P>
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<P> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;
<FONT SIZE=+1>8 Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy
bottle: <I>are they</I> not in thy book?
&nbsp; 9 When I cry <I>unto thee,</I> then shall mine enemies turn back:
this I know; for God <I>is</I> for me.
&nbsp; 10 In God will I praise <I>his</I> word: in the L<FONT SIZE=-1><B>ORD</B></FONT> will I praise
<I>his</I> word.
&nbsp; 11 In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man
can do unto me.
&nbsp; 12 Thy vows <I>are</I> upon me, O God: I will render praises unto
thee.
&nbsp; 13 For thou hast delivered my soul from death: <I>wilt</I> not <I>thou
deliver</I> my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the
light of the living?
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<P> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;
Several things David here comforts himself with in the day of his
distress and fear.</P>
<P> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;
I. That God took particular notice of all his grievances and all his
griefs,
<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ps+56:8"><I>v.</I> 8</A>.
1. Of all the inconveniences of his state: <I>Thou tellest my
wanderings,</I> my <I>flittings,</I> so the old translation. David was
now but a young (under thirty) and yet he had had many removes, from
his father's house to the court, thence to the camp, and now driven out
to sojourn where he could find a place, but not allowed to rest any
where; he was hunted like a partridge upon the mountains; continual
terrors and toils attended him; but this comforted him, that God kept a
particular account of all his motions, and numbered all the weary steps
he took, by night or by day. Note, God takes cognizance of all the
afflictions of his people; and he does not cast out from his care and
love those whom men have cast out from their acquaintance and converse.
2. Of all the impressions thus made upon his spirit. When he was
wandering he was often weeping, and therefore prays, "<I>Put thou my
tears into thy bottle,</I> to be preserved and looked upon; nay, I know
they are <I>in thy book,</I> the book of thy remembrance." God has a
bottle and a book for his people's tears, both those for their sins and
those for their afflictions. This intimates,
(1.) That he observes them with compassion and tender concern; he is
afflicted in their afflictions, and knows their souls in adversity. As
the blood of his saints, and their deaths, are precious in the sight of
the Lord, so are their tears, not one of them shall fall to the ground.
<I>I have seen thy tears,</I>
<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=2Ki+20:5">2 Kings xx. 5</A>.
<I>I have heard Ephraim bemoaning himself,</I>
<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Jer+31:18">Jer. xxxi. 18</A>.
(2.) That he will remember them and review them, as we do the accounts
we have booked. Paul was mindful of Timothy's tears
(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=2Ti+1:4">2 Tim. i. 4</A>),
and God will not forget the sorrows of his people. The tears of God's
persecuted people are bottled up and sealed among God's treasures; and,
when these books come to be opened, they will be found vials of wrath,
which will be poured out upon their persecutors, whom God will surely
reckon with for all the tears they have forced from his people's eyes;
and they will be breasts of consolation to God's mourners, whose
sackcloth will be turned into garments of praise. God will comfort his
people according to the time wherein he has afflicted them, and give to
those to reap in joy who sowed in tears. What was sown a tear will come
up a pearl.</P>
<P> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;
II. That his prayers would be powerful for the defeat and discomfiture
of his enemies, as well as for his own support and encouragement
(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ps+56:9"><I>v.</I> 9</A>):
"<I>When I cry unto thee, then shall my enemies turn back;</I> I need
no other weapons than prayers and tears; <I>this I know, for God is for
me,</I> to plead my cause, to protect and deliver me; and, if God be
for me, who can be against me so as to prevail?" The saints have God
for them; they may know it; and to him they must cry when they are
surrounded with enemies; and, if they do this in faith, they shall find
a divine power exerted and engaged for them; their enemies shall be
made to turn back, their spiritual enemies, against whom we fight best
upon our knees,
<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Eph+6:18">Eph. vi. 18</A>.</P>
<P> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;
III. That his faith in God would set him above the fear of man,
<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ps+56:10,11"><I>v.</I> 10, 11</A>.
Here he repeats, with a strong pathos, what he had said
(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ps+56:4"><I>v.</I> 4</A>),
"<I>In God will I praise his word;</I> that is, I will firmly depend
upon the promise for the sake of him that made it, who is true and
faithful, and has wisdom, power, and goodness enough to make it good."
When we give credit to a man's bill we honour him that drew it; so when
we do, and suffer, for God, in a dependence upon his promise, not
staggering at it, we give glory to God, we praise his word, and so give
praise to him. Having thus put his trust in God, he looks with a holy
contempt upon the threatening power of man: "<I>In God have I put my
trust,</I> and in him only, and therefore <I>I will not be afraid what
man can do unto me</I>
(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ps+56:11"><I>v.</I> 11</A>),
though I know very well what he would do if he could,"
<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ps+56:1,2"><I>v.</I> 1, 2</A>.
This triumphant word, so expressive of a holy magnanimity, the apostle
puts into the mouth of every true believer, whom he makes a Christian
hero,
<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Heb+13:6">Heb. xiii. 6</A>.
We may each of us boldly say, <I>The Lord is my helper,</I> and then
<I>I will not fear what man shall do unto me;</I> for he has no power
but what he has given him from above.</P>
<P> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;
IV. That he was in bonds to God
(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ps+56:12"><I>v.</I> 12</A>):
"<I>Thy vows are upon me, O God!</I>--not upon me as a burden which I
am loaded with, but as a badge which I glory in, as that by which I am
known to be thy menial servant--not upon me as fetters that hamper me
(such are superstitious vows), but upon me as a bridle that restrains
me from what would be hurtful to me, and directs me in the way of my
duty. Thy vows are upon me, the vows I have made to thee, to which thou
art not only a witness, but a party, and which thou hast commanded and
encouraged me to make." It is probably that he means especially those
vows which he had made to God in the day of his trouble and distress,
which he would retain the remembrance of, and acknowledge the
obligations of, when his fright was over. Note, It ought to be the
matter of our consideration and joy that <I>the vows of God are upon
us</I>--our baptismal vows renewed at the Lord's table, our occasional
vows under convictions, under corrections, by these we are bound to
live to God.</P>
<P> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;
V. That he should still have more and more occasion to praise him: <I>I
will render praises unto thee.</I> This is part of the performance of
his vows; for vows of thankfulness properly accompany prayers for
mercy, and when the mercy is received must be made good. When we study
what we shall render this is the least we can resolve upon, to render
praises to God--poor returns for rich receivings! Two things he will
praise God for:--
1. For what he had done for him
(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ps+56:13"><I>v.</I> 13</A>):
"<I>Thou has delivered my soul,</I> my life, <I>from death,</I> which
was just ready to seize me." If God have delivered us from sin, either
from the commission of it by preventing grace or from the punishment of
it by pardoning mercy, we have reason to own that he has thereby
delivered our souls from death, which is the wages of sin. If we, who
were by nature dead in sin, are quickened together with Christ, and are
made spiritually alive, we have reason to own that God has delivered
our souls from death.
2. For what he would do for him: "<I>Thou hast delivered my soul from
death,</I> and so hast given me a new life, and thereby hast given me
an earnest of further mercy, that thou wilt <I>deliver my feet from
falling;</I> thou hast done the greater, and therefore thou wilt do the
less; thou hast begun a good work, and therefore thou wilt carry it on
and perfect it." This may be taken either as the matter of his prayer,
pleading his experience, or as the matter of his praise, raising his
expectations; and those that know how to praise in faith will give God
thanks for mercies in promise and prospect, as well as in possession.
See here,
(1.) What David hopes for, that God would deliver his feet from falling
either into sin, which would wound his conscience, or into the
appearance of sin, from which his enemies would take occasion to wound
his good name. Those that think the stand must take heed lest they
fall, because the best stand no longer than God is pleased to uphold
them. We are weak, our way is slippery, many stumbling-blocks are in
it, our spiritual enemies are industrious to thrust us down, and
therefore we are concerned by faith and prayer to commit ourselves to
his care who <I>keeps the feet of his saints.</I>
(2.) What he builds this hope upon: "<I>Thou hast delivered my soul
from death,</I> and therein hast magnified thy power and goodness, and
put me into a capacity of receiving further mercy from thee; and now
wilt thou not secure and crown thy own work?" God never brought his
people out of Egypt to slay them in the wilderness. He that in
conversion delivers the soul from so great a death as sin is will not
fail <I>to preserve it to his heavenly kingdom.</I>
(3.) What he designs in these hopes: <I>That I may walk before God in
the light of the living,</I> that is,
[1.] "That I may get to heaven, the only land of light and life; for in
this world darkness and death reign."
[2.] "That I may do my duty while this life lasts." Note, This we
should aim at, in all our desires and expectations of deliverance both
from sin and trouble, that we may do God so much the better
service--<I>that, being delivered out of the hands of our enemies, we
may serve him without fear.</I></P>
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