18. Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion. Zion was David’s favorite spot, whereon he had hoped to erect a temple. He felt he had hindered the project honoring the Lord there as he desired, but he prayed God still to let the place of his ark be glorious, and to establish his worship and his worshiping people. Build thou the walls of Jerusalem. This had been one of David’s schemes, to wall in the holy city, and he desires to see it completed; but we believe he had a more spiritual meaning, and prayed for the prosperity of the Lord’s cause and people. He had done mischief by his sin, and had as it were polluted down her walls; he therefore implores the Lord to undo the evil and establish his church. God can make his cause prosper, and in answer to prayer he will do so. Without his building we labor in vain.
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