He alone is my rock, my salvation, and my fortress. I will never be greatly shaken.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 2. Day. The manna dissolved with the sun beams, and God will be served with diligence.—Flesh. The sensations of my soul affect all my body. Worthington.—Thirst is more insupportable than hunger; and the psalmist could not express his ardour better. Calmet.—He loves God with all his strength, and so forth Bible.—“The soul desires, but the end can be attained only by good works.” Carnis laboribus pervenitur. Saint Jerome—O how! Prot. “longeth for thee in a dry,” and so forth But come is no Hebrew verb, and occurring no where else, is little understood by the Jews. It seems that comu, “as,” should be here, to correspond with the following so. “As my flesh thirsts in this, and so forth so in the,” and so forth I shall find no less pleasure in attending thy worship, than a thirsty traveller does in finding water. Calmet.—Theodotion agrees with the Septuagint in considering this as a compound word ποσαπλως, ( Calmet.) and we had best stick to the most ancient version. Bert.