Behold, he travaileth with iniquity — The wicked man does. The allusion here is to the pains and throes of childbirth; and the idea is tha…

Behold, he travaileth. — The poet’s thought recurs to the calumniator, whose sin has deserved all this Divine wrath, and …

Behold, he shall travail. David has until now shown how great and formidable the danger was that was near him. In this verse, scoffing at …

Behold, he travaileth with iniquity
Is full of it, and big with it, as a woman with child, and eagerly desires to br…

David is confident that he will find God his powerful Saviour. The destruction of sinners may be prevented by their conversion; for it is threatene…

1. The earlier psalms were written for liberation from enemies, but this is a psalm in which he prays for vindication from them. Thus, the t…