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Thy marvellous loving-kindness, to wit, in preserving and delivering me; which, if thou dost, I must ever acknowledge it to be an act of kindness, or free grace, or undeserved bounty, yea, and of marvellous kindness, because of my extreme and pressing dangers, out of which nothing but a wonder of God’s mercy and power can save me.
By thy right hand, i. e. by thy great power.
In thee, or, in it, i.e. in thy right hand, as was now expressed.
From those that rise up against them; or, because of (as the Hebrew prefix mem oft signifies, as Psa_12:6, and elsewhere) those exalt themselves, (as this word signifies, Job_20:27 27:7 Psa_49:1) not only against me, but against thee, who hast engaged and declared thyself for me. So this prayer is like that Psa_66:7, Let not the rebellious exalt themselves. But this place is otherwise translated in the margin of our Bibles, with which divers others, both ancient and later interpreters, agree, and that more agreeably to the order of the words in the Hebrew text,
O thou that savest (or usest to save)
them which trust in thee (or, as the Hebrew word may be properly rendered without any supplement, believers) from those that rise up against thy right hand, i.e. either against thy mighty power, which thou hast already showed in my wonderful preservation; or against thy counsel (which is called God’s hand, Act_4:28) and revealed will concerning my advancement to the kingdom, which divers of these men did knowingly oppose, as may be gathered from 2Sa_3:9,10. Or, against the man (which word is oft understood, whereof examples have been given, and more we shall have in this book) of thy right hand, as David is called, Psa_80:17. According to this translation his prayer is enforced with a double motive, to wit, his trust in God, and his enemies’ opposition against God.