20. This is the summing up of the entire imprecation, and fixes it upon the persons who had so maliciously assailed the inoffensive man of God. David was a man of gentle mold, and remarkably free from the spirit of revenge, and therefore we may here conceive him to be speaking as a judge or as a representative man, in whose person great principles needed to be vindicated and great injuries redressed.
Thousands of God’s people are perplexed with this psalm, and we fear we have contributed very little towards their enlightenment. What then? Is it not good for us sometimes to be made to feel that we are not yet able to understand all the Word and mind of God? A thorough bewilderment, so long as it does not stagger our faith, may be useful to us by confounding our pride, arousing our faculties, and leading us to cry, “What I know not, teach me.”
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