when I remember you upon my bed, and meditate on you in the watches of the night;
David fled into Judah's wilderness to escape Saul's murderous pursuit, and this psalm gathers his pious meditations and vows made under such severe trials. Some place it during Absalom's rebellion, but the desert setting and David's peril fit the Saul years best, even though he calls himself king, expressing his confident faith that God would fulfill His promise to raise him to the throne.
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Commenting on Psalm 63:1-11
When I remember thee upon my bed. Lying awake, the good man betook himself to meditation, and then began to sing. He had a feast in the night, and a song in the night. He turned his bedchamber into an oratory, he consecrated his pillow, his praise anticipated the place of which it is written, "There is no night there." Perhaps the wilderness helped to...
Faithful prayer turns quickly into joyful praise, if we will let it. God's lovingkindness surpasses life itself, all comfort, all prosperity; a thousand times better to die in His favour than to live under His wrath. Those whose hearts are refreshed by His tokens ought to have them enlarged in His praises.
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Commenting on Psalm 63:3-6