{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/jfb/psa017.htm","path":"bib/cmt/jfb/psa017.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/jfb/psa017.htm","text":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]\nsentence--acquitting judgment.\nfrom thy presence--Thy tribunal.\nthings that are equal--just and right, do Thou regard.\nproved . . . visited . . . tried--His character was most rigidly tested, at all times, and by all methods, affliction and others (Psa 7:10).\npurposed that, &c.--or, my mouth does not exceed my purpose; I am sincere.\nworks of men--sinful practices.\nby the word of thy lips--as a guide (Psa 119:9, Psa 119:11, Psa 119:95).\ndestroyer--violent man.\nMay be read as an assertion \"my steps or goings have held on to Thy paths.\"\nwilt hear me--that is, graciously (Psa 3:4).\nShow--set apart as special and eminent (Exo 8:18; Psa 4:3).\nthy right hand--for Thy power.\nSimilar figures, denoting the preciousness of God's people in His sight, in Deu 32:10-11; Mat 23:37.\ncompass me--(compare Psa 118:10-12).\nenclosed . . . fat--are become proud in prosperity, and insolent to God (Deu 32:15; Psa 73:7).\nThey pursue us as beasts tracking their prey.\nThe figure made more special by that of a lion lurking.\ndisappoint--literally, \"come before,\" or, \"encounter him.\" Supply \"with\" before \"sword\" (Psa 17:13), and \"hand\" (Psa 17:14). These denote God's power.\nmen . . . world--all men of this present time. They appear, by fulness of bread and large families, to be prosperous; but (Psa 17:15) he implies this will be transient, contrasting his better portion in a joyful union with God hereafter.","title":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments: Psalms: Psalms Chapter 17","type":"page"}