The Psalms Translated and Explained Author:Joseph Addison Alexander Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ginal or mascretie reading (affii) must be rendered, he, will cause to return, repay, requite. Thy truth, the truth of thy promises and threatenings, thy veracit... more »y. See above, on Ps. xxx. 10 (9.) The certain foresight of the doom of the wicked, which is expressed in the first clause, makes the prayer (if such it be considered) in the first clause, a mere iteration of the previous threatening. A prayer that God will do what we are certain that he will do can be little more than an expression of that certaintv. See above, on Ps. v. 11 (10.) 3 (6) With a free-will-offering will I sacrifice unto thee ; I wil l praise thy name, Jehovah, for it is good. In the confident assurance of a favourable answer to his prayer, he promises a suitable acknowledgment. See above, on Ps. v. 8 (7.) A free-will or voluntary offering, as opposed to one prescribed by law, not to one rendered obligatory by a vow, for then a voluntary offering would iu this case be impossible. The Hebrew word is the technical term applied to such an offering ia the Law. See Lev. vii. 16. -gyii, 23, and compare Ex. xxv. 2. xxxv. 29, Num. xv. 3. With the last clause compare Ps. lii. 11 (9.) 9 (7.) For out of all distress he hath delivered me, and on my enemies my eye has looked. In his confident assurance of a favourable issue, he speaks of it, though future, as already past. The sudden change of person may be avoided by translating the first verb, it (i. e. thy name) has delivered me, according to the prayer in v. 3 (1.) My ey has looked or gazed, with an implication of delight, or at least of acquiescence, which is commonly conveyed by this construction. See above, on Ps. l. 23. This kind of satisfaction in the execution of God's threatenings is sinful only when combined with selfish malignity. Apart from this corrupt...« less