THE BOOK OF PSALMS; TRANSLATED FROM THE HEBREW: WITH NOTES, EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL. BY SAMUEL HORSLEY, L.L.D. F.R. S. F.A. S. LATE LORD BISHOP OF ST. ASAPH. VOL. II. LONDON: SOLD BY F. C. & J. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD ; AND LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, & BROWN, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1815. A PRAYER OF THE MESSIAH, COMPLAINING OF HIS ENEMIES, r THIS Psalm hath no particular relation to the fact mentioned in the title; namely, Saul's attempt to cut off David by assassination. From expressions in the 5th, 11th, and 13th verses, I should guess that it was composed after David was king, when the public safety was intimately connected with his own; and that the danger to the author and the state was not from private assassins, but from a foreign enemy openly in arms; nor from a single enemy, but from a powerful confederacy, (2, 3.) The principal enemy is described as a perfidious enemy, who had broken faith with the Psalmist without provocation, VOL. II. A |