Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 9. Do not. This may be spoken by God, or by the psalmist; as an admonition to hear the counsel of those divinely commissioned. Calmet.—Who come. Prot. “lest they come near,” ( Bible.) and threaten to bite or to run over thee. Calmet.—But the Hebrew may be the sense of the Vulg. qui non accedunt. Saint Jerome—It may be a prayer, that God would offer a sort of violence to restrain the sallies of the sinner, ( Bible.) and to convert him; ( Worthington.) or God threatens the obstinate with rigour of his justice. Many delude themselves, thinking that he will always treat them with lenity, and be ready to receive them. Bert. Isaiah 37:29. But the prophet admonishes them not to follow their senses alone, nor to imitate brute beasts, as he had done with regard to Bathsabee and Urias. Menochius.—The bit (camus) was a sort of muzzle, “to hinder horses from biting.” Xenophon.