When I kept silence - The psalmist now goes on to state his condition of mind before he himself found this peace, or before he had this evid…

When I kept. —He describes his state of mind before he could bring himself to confess his sin (the rendering of the particle k…

Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity, and in whose…

When I kept silence, my bones wasted away. Here David confirms by his own experience the doctrine he had set forth: namely, that when humb…

When I kept silence
Was unthoughtful of sin, unconcerned about it, and made no acknowledgment and confession of it t…

It is very difficult to bring sinful man humbly to accept free mercy, with a full confession of his sins and self-condemnation. But the true and on…

1. Here begins the fourth set of ten psalms from the first fifty.

Just as the first ten contained psalms about the persecution by Absa…