Psalms 15

Psalms 15:6

6. Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor.] Laughed at his dependence upon God. Bp. Wilson.

Psalms 15:7

7. Oh that the salvation &c.] This pious wish is uttered by David, that it would please God, who dwelleth in Zion, “between the cherubims,” Ps. lxxx. 1, to send from thence, as from his throne, deliverance to his people; redeeming them from the oppression and captivity under which they laboured. Fenton.

The works of God are so visible to all the world, and afford such manifest indications of the being and attributes of the infinite Creator, that they plainly argue the vileness and perverseness of the Atheist, and leave him inexcusable. For it is a sign a man is a wilful perverse Atheist, that will impute so glorious a work, as the creation is, to any thing, yea, a mere nothing, (as chance is,) rather than to God. It is a sign the man is wilfully blind, that he is under the power of the devil, under the government of prejudice, lust, and passion, not right reason, that will not discern what “every one can see, what every man may behold affar off,” Job xxxvi. 25, even the existence and attributes of the Creator from his works. Dr. Derham.

Psalm XV. In this Psalm the author describes a citizen of Zion; or what is necessary and requisite in the conduct and behaviour of a member of the Jewish church. Edwards. This seems to be a contrast to the preceding Psalm: it is appointed to be used on the Ascension-day, as it contains the character of one, who should be qualified to ascend into the hill, and dwell in the presence of God, whether our Saviour Christ is gone before. Travell.

Ver. 1. Lord, who shall abide &c.] O Lord, who is the man that shall be admitted to the tabernacle on thy