Psalms 31
DiodatiPsalms 31:1
IN thy righteousnesse] namely, thy upright and invariable truth and firmnesse of thy promises and covenant, or thine equitie which consists in righting of those who are wrongfully oppressed.
Psalms 31:5
Redeemed mee] that is to say, my soule is thine because thou hast redeemed it from eternall death, and therefore living or dying, I will by an assured faith put it into thine hands, being sure that it cannot perish, but that thou wilt turne all mine evills and disastrous chances, to my salvation.
Psalms 31:6
That regard] that are given to Idols, which have no God-head in them, but that which the Idolator doth falsly attribute unto them; nor power, but what the Devill deceitfully doth lend them: or generally, those that put their trust in any thing but onely in God.
Psalms 31:8
Thou hast set] thou hast established mee in a peaceable and secure estate.
Psalms 31:10
Iniquity] the Italian, my paines, Hebrew, mine iniquities, because that death and all miseries proceed from sinne, the Scripture doth often confound the names of the cause, and of the effects.
Psalms 31:11
A seare] by reason of horrour and griefe, as if I were a person struck with some extraordinary curse of God.
Psalms 31:12
A broken vessell] a broken potsheard or some old forsaken peece of tile.
Psalms 31:15
My times] thou rulest, and governest my whole course of life, thou settest down how long it shall last, and disposest and orderest all the passages of it.
Psalms 31:17
Let them be silent] or let them be rooted out.
Psalms 31:20
Hide them] thou settest them in safety, in a place that is secure and hath an inviolable priviledge of freedome: A kinde of speech taken from Princes secret and withdrawing Chambers, which are sacred places [From the strife] from false accusations and calumnies, from cruell slanders, and from being wronged and insulted over.
Psalms 31:22
In my haste] the Italian, in my errour, or hastinesse; when I have by my calamities beene transported into irrigular thoughts and unseeming words.