Title. Maschil = Instruction. The ninth of thirteen so named. See note on Title, Psalm 32, and App-65of Asaph. The third of the twelve Asaph Psalms. See App-63. Not David's Asaph, but a successor bearing the same name.
God. Hebrew Elohim.App-4.
why . . . ? Figure of speech. Erotesis. See App-6.
cast us off. Compare Psa_43:2; Psa_44:9.
smoke. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. Compare Psa_18:8.
sheep of Thy pasture. Occurs frequently in the Asaph Psalms (Psa_79:13); also in Jer_23:1. Eze_34:31.