Matthew Poole Commentary - Psalms 119:39 - 119:39

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Psalms 119:39 - 119:39


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Turn away my reproach; either,



1. For the shameful disappointment of my hopes and confident boastings concerning the truth and certainty of thy promises; or,



2. For my manifold failings, and particularly for that shameful matter about Uriah and Bathsheba; or,



3. For my instability in or apostacy from thy ways; which in respect of mine own weakness and folly I have great cause to fear. For thy judgments are good: this may be a reason either,



1. Why he prayed and hoped that God would turn away reproach from him, because God’s word and statutes were good, and therefore it was not fit for any to suffer reproach in and for his diligent observation of them; or,



2. Why he feared reproach, because he had, and feared he might hereafter, transgress those judgments or statutes of God which were, and he very well knew to be, good, i.e. just, and holy, and excellent, and therefore it was a shameful thing to violate them.