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For this mercy, which is provided for every sinner who repents and confesses his sin, let then, every חסיד, who longs for חסד, turn in prayer to Jahve לְעֵת מְצֹא, at the time (Psa 21:10; 1Ch 12:22; cf. בְּעֵת, Isa 49:8) when He, and His mercy, is to be found (cf. Deu 4:29 with Jer 29:13; Isa 55:6, בְּהִמָּֽצְאֹו). This hortatory wish is followed by a promissory assurance. The fact of לְשֶׁטֶף מַיִם רַבִּים being virtually a protasis: quam inundant aquae magnae (לְ of the time), which separates רַק from אֵלָיו, prohibits our regarding רק as belonging to אֵלָיו in this instance, although like אַף, אַךְ, גַּם, and פֶּן, רַק is also placed per hypallage at the head of the clause (as in Pro 13:10 : with pride there is only contention), even when belonging to a part of the clause that follows further on. The restrictive meaning of רק here, as is frequently the case (Deu 4:6; Jdg 14:16; 1Ki 21:25, cf. Psa 91:8), has passed over to the affirmative: certo quum, etc. Inundation or flooding is an exemplificative description of the divine judgment (cf. Nah 1:8); Psa 32:6 is a brief form of expressing the promise which is expanded in Ps 91. In Psa 32:7, David confirms it from his own experience. The assonance in מִצַּר תִּצְּרֵנִי (Thou wilt preserve me, so that צַר, angustum = angustiae, does not come upon me, Psa 119:143) is not undesigned; and after תצרני comes רני, just like כלו after בהיכלו in Psa 29:9. There is no sufficient ground for setting aside רני, with Houbigant and others, as a repetition of the half of the word תצרני. The infinitive רֹן (Job 38:7) might, like רֹב, plur. רֻבֵּי, חֹק, plur. חֻקֵּי, with equal right be inflected as a substantive; and פַּלֵּט (as in Psa 56:8), which is likewise treated as a substantive, cf. נַפֵּץ, Dan 12:7, presents, as a genitive, no more difficulty than does דעת in the expression אִישׁ דַּעַת. With songs of deliverance doth Jahve surround him, so that they encompass him on all sides, and on occasion of exulting meets him in whatever direction he turns. The music here again for the third time becomes forte, and that to express the highest feeling of delight.