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Now comes the confirmation of his cry to God: It is with Him entirely different from what the ungodly imagine. They think that He will not punish; but He does see (cf. 2Ch 24:22), and the psalmist knows and confesses it: רָאִתָה (defective = רָאִיתָה Psa 35:22), Thou hast seen and dost see what is done to Thine own, what is done to the innocent. This he supports by a conclusion a genere ad speciem thus: the trouble which is prepared for others, and the sorrow (כַּעַס, as in Ecc 7:3) which they cause them, does not escape the all-seeing eye of God, He notes it all, to give it into (lay it in) His hand. “To give anything into any one's hand” is equivalent to, into his power (1Ki 20:28, and frequently); but here God gives (lays) the things which are not to be administered, but requited, into His own hand. The expression is meant to be understood according to Psa 56:9, cf. Isa 49:16 : He is observant of the afflictions of His saints, laying them up in His hand and preserving them there in order, in His own time, to restore them to His saints in joy, and to their enemies in punishment. Thus, therefore, the feeble and helpless (read חֶלְכֶּה or חָלְכֶּה; according to the Masoretic text חֵלֶֽכָה Thy host, not חֵלֵֽכָה, which is contrary to the character of the form, as pausal form for חֵֽלְכָה) can leave to Him, viz., all his burden (יְהָבֹו, Psa 55:23), everything that vexes and disquiets him. Jahve has been and will be the Helper of the fatherless. יָתוֹם stands prominent by way of emphasis, like אֹותָם Psa 9:13, and Bakius rightly remarks in voce pupilli synecdoche est, complectens omnes illos, qui humanis praesidiis destituuntur.