{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/jfb/psa057.htm","path":"bib/cmt/jfb/psa057.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/jfb/psa057.htm","text":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]\nmy soul--or self, or life, which is threatened.\nshadow of thy wings-- (Psa 17:8; Psa 36:7).\ncalamities--literally, \"mischiefs\" (Psa 52:2; Psa 55:10).\nperformeth--or, completes what He has begun.\nfrom . . . swallow me up--that pants in rage after me (Psa 56:2).\nmercy and . . . truth-- (Psa 25:10; Psa 36:5), as messengers (Psa 43:3) sent to deliver him.\nThe mingled figures of wild beasts (Psa 10:9; Psa 17:12) and weapons of war (Psa 11:2) heighten the picture of danger.\nwhose . . . tongue--or slanders.\nThis doxology illustrates his view of the connection of his deliverance with God's glory.\n(Compare Psa 7:15; Psa 9:15-16).\nI will . . . praise--both with voice and instrument.\nHence--he addresses his glory, or tongue (Psa 16:9; Psa 30:12), and his psaltery, or lute, and harp.\nI myself . . . early--literally, \"I will awaken dawn,\" poetically expressing his zeal and diligence.\nAs His mercy and truth, so shall His praise, fill the universe.","title":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments: Psalms: Psalms Chapter 57","type":"page"}