Excerpt from Biblical Commentary on the Psalms, Vol. 2

9 They become drunk with the fatness of Thy house, And Thou givest them to drink of the river of Thy pleasures.

10 For with Thee is the fountain of life, And in Thy light do we see light.

11 Lengthen out Thy mercy to those who know Thee, And Thy righteousness to those who arc upright in heart.

12 Let not the foot of pride overtake me, And let not the hand of the wicked scare me away.

13 Behold, there have the workers of evil fallen, They are thrust down and are not able to rise.

The preceding Psalm, in the hope of speedy deliverance, put into the lips of the friends of the new kingship, who were now compelled to keep in the background, the words: "Jahve, be magnified, who hath pleasure in the well-being of His servant." David there calls himself the servant of Jahve, and in the inscription to Ps. xxxvi. he bears the very same name: To the Precentor, by the servant of Jahve, by David. Ps. xii., xiv. (liii.), xxxvi., xxxvii., form a group. In these Psalms David complains of the moral corruption of his generation. They are all merely reflections of the character of the time, not of particular occurrences. In common with Ps. xii., the Psalm before us has a prophetic colouring; and, in common with Ps. xxxvii., allusions to the primeval history of the Book of Genesis. The strophe schema is 4. 5. 5. 6. 6.

Vers. 2 - 5. At the outset the poet discovers to us the wickedness of the children of the world, which has its roots in alienation from God.

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