Introduction
LXIV.
The situation indicated in this psalm is one that frequently occurs in Israel’s hymn-book. A prey to calumny, the poet for himself, or, more probably, for the community, implores the protection of God, and then suddenly takes up the prophetic strain—persuaded, from the known order of Providence, that retribution must come—and foretells the sudden dissipation of the deeply-laid schemes of those who vex and oppress God’s chosen people.The last couplet is probably a liturgical addition, and not part of the original poem, which without it divides into three regular stanzas of seven lines.
Title.—See title, Psalms 4:0.
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