Introduction
A Psalm of David.
This psalm is attributed to David in the heavy night that hung over him in his flight before Absalom. While that is clearly the occasion, it is not so clear that it is David’s own utterance. Some words, as ישׁתומם , (Psalms 143:4,) are peculiar to the later Hebrew, and suggest that some troubled mind, in later times, may have felt a true sympathy with David’s darkness and sorrow, and have uttered itself in his style; or he may have transcribed this Davidic effusion as expressive of his own feelings and condition. It is certainly the cry of one in grief and gloom. Many of the expressions are employed in other psalms, and have here no novelty of meaning.
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