10. But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn. The believer rejoices that he will not be allowed to perish, but will
be strengthened and enabled to triumph over his enemies, by the divine aid. The
unicorn may have been some gigantic ox or buffalo now unknown, and perhaps
extinct—among the ancients it was the favorite symbol of unconquerable power;
the psalmist adopts it as his emblem. Faith takes delight in foreseeing the
mercy of the Lord, and sings of what he will do as well as of what he has done.
I shall be anointed with fresh oil. Strengthening will be attended with
refreshment and honor. As guests were anointed at feasts with perfumed
unguents, so shall the saints be cheered and delighted by fresh outpourings of
divine grace; and for this reason they will not pass away like the wicked. Observe
the contrast between the happiness of the brutish people and the joy of the
righteous: the brutish grow with a sort of vegetable vigor of their own, but
the righteous are dealt with by the Lord himself, and all the good which they
receive comes directly from his own right hand, and so is doubly precious in
their esteem. The psalmist speaks in the first person, and it should be a
matter of prayer with the reader that he may be enabled to do the same.
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