{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/jfb/psa007.htm","path":"bib/cmt/jfb/psa007.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/jfb/psa007.htm","text":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]\nThough many enemies set upon him, one is singled out as prominent, and compared to a wild beast tearing his prey to pieces (compare Sa1 20:1; Sa1 23:23; Sa1 26:19).\nif I have done this--that is, the crime charged in the \"words of Cush\" (compare Sa1 24:9).\nIf I have injured my friend.\nyea, I have delivered, &c.--This makes a good sense, but interrupts the course of thought, and hence it is proposed to render, \"if I have spoiled my enemy\"--in either case (compare Sa1 24:4-17; Sa1 31:8, Sa1 31:11).\nThis is the consequence, if such has been his conduct.\nmine honour--(compare Psa 3:3; Psa 4:2) --my personal and official dignity.\nGod is involved as if hitherto careless of him (Psa 3:7; Psa 9:18).\nrage--the most violent, like a flood rising over a river's banks.\nthe judgment . . . commanded--or, \"ordained\"; a just decision.\ncompass thee--as those seeking justice.\nreturn thou on high--assume the judgment seat, to be honored as a just Ruler by them.\nThough not claiming innocence in general, he can confidently do so in this case, and in demanding from the Judge of all the earth a judgment, he virtually asks acquittal.\nthe hearts and reins--the affections and motives of men, or the seat of them (compare Psa 16:7; Psa 26:2); as we use heart and bosom or breast.\ndefence--literally, \"shield\" (Psa 5:12).\njudgeth--as in Psa 7:8.\nthe wicked--Though not expressed, they are implied, for they alone are left as objects of anger.\nThey are here distinctly pointed out, though by changing the person, a very common mode of speech, one is selected as a representative of wicked men generally. The military figures are of obvious meaning.\nagainst the persecutors--Some render \"for burning,\" but the former is the best sense. Arrows for burning would be appropriate in besieging a town, not in warring against one man or a company in open fight.\nThe first clause expresses the general idea that wicked men labor to do evil, the others carry out the figure fully.\nSa1 18:17; Sa1 31:2 illustrate the statement whether alluded to or not. These verses are expository of Psa 7:14, showing how the devices of the wicked end in disappointment, falsifying their expectations.\nhis righteousness-- (Psa 5:8). Thus illustrated in the defense of His servant and punishment of the wicked.","title":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments: Psalms: Psalms Chapter 7","type":"page"}