I was dumb - See the notes at (Psalms 39:2). Compare (Isaiah 53:7). The meaning here is, that he did not open his …

You is emphatic. Kimchi well explains: “I could not complain of man, for it was God’s doing; I could not complai…

Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.<…

I was dumb. Here David blames himself because he had not preserved that silence which, as we have already seen, the violence of his grief …

I was dumb, I opened not my mouth This refers either to his former silence, before he broke it, (Psalms 39:1[…

There is no solid satisfaction to be gained from the creature; but it is to be found in the Lord, and in communion with him. We should be driven to…

1. The psalmist confe ed that he suffered affliction for his sin; now here he promises caution in the future.

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