\*Ver. 6. \\Thou shall destroy them that speak leasing\\,
&c.] Or %a lie% {i}; whether in matters of religion; as
false doctrines, errors, and heresies, are lies; and so
all that deny the deity, sonship, and Messiahship of
Christ, are liars; and the followers of the man of sin
speak lies in hypocrisy: or in common conversation;
such are like to Satan, and are abominable in the sight
of God; and he will destroy them, either with a temporal
destruction, with bodily diseases, as Gehazi was
smitten with a leprosy; and with corporeal death, as
Ananias and Sapphira; or with eternal destruction,
the destruction of body and soul in hell; for all liars
have their part in the lake which burns with fire and
brimstone;
\*\\the Lord will abhor the bloody and deceitful man\\;
or %the man of blood and deceit% {k}; that thirsts
after blood; who sheds innocent blood, as the Targum
paraphrases it. He showed his resentment against
Cain, the first of this sort, in a way that was intolerable
to him. He very early established a law, requiring
that he who shed man's blood, by man should his blood
be shed; and he will give the whore of Rome, who
has been drunk with the blood of his saints, blood to
drink, because she is worthy. And all such who flatter
with their tongue, and speak with a double heart,
and lie in wait to deceive their neighbour, whether in
things temporal or spiritual, are the objects of his abhorrence
and indignation; see \\#Ps 55:23\\. Now David's
enemies being such sort of persons, foolish
wicked men, proud and haughty, workers of iniquity,
liars, bloody and deceitful men, men that God had an
abhorrence of, lie therefore hoped and was confident
that God would hear his prayers against them, and for
himself.

\*Ver. 7. \\But as for me, I will come [into] thy house\\,
&c.] The tabernacle of Moses, sometimes called the
house of God, \\#1Ch 9:23\\; for as yet the temple
was not built. Here David had been used to go in
times past; and though he was now in a kind of exile
from it, he was confident he should again enter into
and determined so to do whenever he had an opportunity,
and that in the following manner:
\*\\in the multitude of thy mercy\\; grace or goodness. God is rich in
mercy, abundant in goodness and truth; there is a
multitude of mercy, love, and grace in his heart, and
which is stored up in his covenant, and displayed in
his son, and in the provision of him as a Saviour of
lost sinners; abundant mercy is shown in regeneration,
in adoption, and in the forgiveness of sins, and in every
spiritual blessing, and in the gift of eternal life. And
now, not relying on his own merits, strength, and
righteousness, or leaning to his own understanding,
but trusting in the mercy, grace, and goodness of God
in Christ, and in hope of finding more grace and mercy
to help in time of need; with thankfulness for what
he had received, he determines, by divine leave and
assistance, to enter,into the house of the Lord: and
whatever other persons did, whom he had before described,
it was his resolution to serve the Lord, under
a sense of his mercy and goodness to him; which laid
him under an obligation so to do, and is the true principle
from which all service should proceed;
\*\\[and] in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple\\; either
heaven, the habitation of God's holiness, towards
which, and to God there, the psalmist would lift up
his eyes, his hands, and heart; or the tabernacle, at
the door of which the worship of God was performed,
the sacrifices were brought, and God met his people;
and therefore he says he would worship towards the
temple or tabernacle, \\#Le 1:3 Ex 29:42,43\\.
And it may be that David has reference to the Messiah,
the medium of divine worship; whose human
nature was typified by the tabernacle and temple, in
which the fulness of the Godhead dwells: the psalmist
therefore purposes to worship God in Christ, and to
perform all acts of worship, as prayer, praise, hearing
the word, offering sacrifice, &c. in the name and faith
of Christ; looking towards him for the presentation of
his services by him, and for the acceptance of them
with God through him: and this he desired to do in
the %fear% of God; not with a slavish fear, but with reverence
and godly fear; with a fear influenced by the
multitude of God's mercy, grace, and goodness, in art
humble modest manner, not trusting to, or depending
upon, any service done by him.


{i} \^bzk\^ %mendacium%, V. L.
{k} \^hmrmw Mymd vya\^ %vir sanguinum & doli, vel fraudis%, Montanus,
Cocceius, Gejerus; so Ainsworth.