\*Ver. 47. \\[It is] God that avengeth me\\, &c.] Or %gives
vengeance unto me%, or %for me% {t}: vengeance only belongs
to God, and he repays it for and in behalf of his people.
Private revenge is not to be exercised by any; public
vengeance on delinquents may be exercised by the
civil magistrate, to whom God gives power and authority
to exercise it, \\#Ro 13:4\\; as he did to David, as
king of Israel; though the phrase rather seems to design
the victories which he obtained over his enemies,
which were punishments to them, vengeances inflicted
on them; and owing to God; so the acceptable year of
the Messiah's coming, and the time of his people redeemed
by him, is called the day of vengeance of our
God, both on his and their enemies, \\#Isa 61:2 63:4\\;
\*\\and subdueth the people under me\\; the Edomites,
Moabites, and others, as in \\2Sa 8:1,2,5,14\\, or the
Gentiles under Christ; \\see Gill on "Ps 18:39"\\;

\*Ver. 48. \\He delivereth me from mine enemies\\, &c.]
From Saul and his men, from Ishbosheth and Abner,
from Absalom, and the conspirators with him; so all
believers are delivered out of the hands of their enemies
by Christ, as that they can serve the Lord without
fear; and so Christ himself is delivered from all
his enemies, being raised from the dead, and set at the
right hand of God, where he must reign till all enemies
are put under his feet;
\*\\yea, thou liftest me up above
those that rise up against me\\; David was lifted up from
a low and mean estate, and placed on the throne of
Israel, above all those that rose up against him, and
sought to destroy him; and the saints are set upon their
high places in Christ, where they are out of the reach
of their enemies to do them any hurt; and Christ, he is
highly exalted at the right hand of God, above all
principality and power, might and dominion, and every
name that is named in this world;
\*\\thou hast delivered
me from the violent man\\; either from Saul, from whom
David was delivered; or from Satan the enemy, the
son of wickedness, who shall no more exact upon and
afflict the Messiah, \\#Ps 89:21,22\\. The Chaldee
paraphrase says, from Gog; as the saints will be delivered
from antichrist, the man of sin, and son of perdition,
who will be destroyed with the breath of
Christ's mouth.

\*Ver. 49. \\Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O Lord, among
the\\ \\Heathen\\, &c.] These words are cited
by the apostle, in \\#Ro 15:9\\; and applied to the conversion
of the Gentiles, which is manifestly prophesied
of in some preceding verses of this psalm: there it is
rendered, %I will confess to thee among the Gentiles%; and
designs not confession of sin, nor profession of the
truth, but an acknowledgment of unworthiness, joined
with thankfulness for mercies received; done in the
most public manner, not only in the congregation of
the righteous, but before the Heathen conquered by
him; owning before them all, that the victories he had
obtained over them were not to be ascribed to his arm
and sword, but to the power of the Lord;
\*\\and sing
praises unto thy name\\; which is comely for the saints
to do, and which Jesus Christ himself did, in the great
congregation of his disciples, and among the Gentiles,
by his apostles, and others, on the account of the conversion of them.

\*Ver. 50. \\Great deliverance giveth he to his king\\, &c.]
Not that is king over him; for he is King of kings
and Lord of lords; but that is made king by him, as
David was; who did not usurp the throne, but was
anointed king by the appointment of God, and was
placed by him upon the throne; to whom he gave
great deliverance from his enemies, or %magnified salvations%
to him; which were great in kind, and many in
number; and as Christ is, whom God has set as his
King on his holy hill of Sion, against whom the Heathen
raged, and kings and princes set themselves; but
he is delivered from them all, and saved from the
power of death and the grave, and ever lives to reign
over, protect, and defend his people; in \\#2Sa 22:51\\,
it is, he is %the tower of salvation for his king%, with which
compare \\#Pr 18:10\\;
\*\\and showeth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for\\
\\evermore\\; which
may be understood either of David literally, who was
the Lord's anointed, and to whom God showed mercy
in various instances; and then by his seed is meant
the Messiah, who was of his seed according to the
flesh; or of the Messiah, whose name signifies Anointed;
and who is often called David, \\#Eze 34:23,24
37:24,25 Ho 3:5\\; and so some of the
Jewish doctors {u} from this verse prove that the name of
the Messiah is David: and by his seed are meant his
spiritual seed; all the elect of God, who are given him
as his children, to whom he stands in the relation of
the everlasting Father: and as mercy is kept with him
for evermore, \\#Ps 89:28\\; so it is shown to them
in regeneration, in the forgiveness of their sins, and in
their everlasting salvation.

{t} \^yl twmqn Ntwnh\^ %qui dat ultiones mihi%, Pagninus, Gejerus; so
Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Musculus, Cocceius, Michaelis.
{u} Echa Rabbati, fol. 50. 2.