Psalms 140

Psalms 140:1

Saved them - That he may vindicate his name from the blasphemous reproaches, which would have been cast upon it, if they had been destroyed.

Psalms 140:2

Led them - As securely as if they had walked upon the dry land.

Psalms 140:6

Soon - Even within three days, Exodus 15:22,23. Waited not - They did not wait patiently upon God for supplies, in such manner and time as he thought fit.

Psalms 140:7

Lusted - For flesh.

Psalms 140:8

Souls - Into their bodies. So their inordinate desire of pampering their bodies, was the occasion of destroying them.

Psalms 140:9

The saint - So called, because he was consecrated by God for that sacred office of the priesthood, in which respect all the priests are said to be holy, Leviticus 21:6 - 8. Hereby he intimates, that their envy and rebellion was not only against Aaron, but against God himself.

Psalms 140:12

A calf - When they were but just brought out of Egypt by such wonders, and had seen the plagues of God upon the Egyptian idolaters, and when the law of God was but newly delivered to them in such a tremendous manner.

Psalms 140:13

Their glory - God, who was indeed their glory. Into - Into the golden image of an ox or calf, which is so far from feeding his people, as the true God did the Israelites, that he must be fed by them.