Commentary on Psalms Volume 3 John Calvin
COMMENTARY ON PSALMS - VOLUME 3 most dark and disordered; but the passage speaks of what would be obvious to sense and actual observation, and asserts that the justice of God would shine as the sky when all is calm and serene.
And all that are upright in heart after him Some read, after it, that is, after righteousness; but as by righteousness here we are to understand the equal and harmonious government which prevails when God takes vengeance upon the wicked and delivers his own people, this rendering will scarcely suit. It would rather seem that God himself is to be understood, so that the relative is here without an antecedent. In the Hebrew, when mention is made of God, the relative is not unfrequently put instead of the name. The words then mean, that upon God's restoring order in the world, his people would be encouraged to follow him with greater alacrity. Even when called to bear the cross, they sigh after him under their troubles and distresses, but it binds them more closely to his service when they see his hand stretched forth in this visible manner, and sensibly experience his deliverance.
Psalm 94:16-19
16. Who will rise up for me against my adversaries? who will stand up for me 32 against the workers of iniquity? 17. Unless Jehovah had been my help, my soul had well nigh dwelt in silence. 33 18. If I said, My foot has fallen, thy kindness, O Jehovah! has held me up. 34 19. In the multitude of my thoughts, 35 thy comforts within me delight my soul. 36
"On voit un tresbon accord entre la domination et justice en une equalite bien moderee." — Fr.
Horsley reads, "Who will set himself on my side?" The original words areמי-.לי יתיצב "The verb",יתיצבsays this critic, "I take to be a military term; literally, 'to take one's place in battalion'"
"The Hebrew isדומהSepulchrum, Pagn. Silentium, Mont. The Septuagint has τῷ ᾅδη; and Jerome in inferno." — Reeves' Collation of the Hebrew and Greek text of the Psalms
propped me It is a metaphor taken from any thing falling, that is propped, shored up, or buttressed How often does the mercy of God thus prevent the ruin of weak believers, and of those who have been unfaithful?" — Dr Adam Clarke
In the Septuagint and Vulgate, it is "in the multitude of my sorrows."
Horsley reads the whole verse thus: — "In the multitude of my anxieties within me, Thy comforts cheered my soul."