For my life is spent with grief - The word here rendered “spent” does not mean merely “passed,” as it is commonly now used, as when…

Iniquity. —Gesenius and Ewald understand the suffering that follows on sin rather than the iniquity itself, a me…

And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room. Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: min…

For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing ,
&c.] Which shows the continuance of his troubles, and t…

David's troubles made him a man of sorrows. In this, he was a type of Christ, who was acquainted with grief. David acknowledged that his affliction…