Magnify the LORD with me; let us exalt His name together.
David celebrates a signal deliverance: when he fled to King Achish of Gath, whom he reckoned his deadliest enemy after Saul, he feigned madness to escape certain death. That God granted him escape contrary to all expectation shows a memorable instance of His favor, fit for the instruction of the whole Church.
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Commenting on Psalm 34:1-22
O magnify the Lord with me. Is this request addressed to the humble? If so it is most fitting. Who can make God great but those who feel themselves to be little? He bids them help him to make the Lord's fame greater among the sons of men.
We cannot justify David's dissimulation; it ill became an honest man to feign himself a fool and madman. Yet what strikes us is the composure of his spirit even in that danger: his heart was so fixed, trusting in God, that he penned this excellent psalm with all the marks of a calm, sedate spirit.
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Commenting on Psalm 34:1-10