Psalms 17:5

Hold up my goings in thy paths,.... Which being spoken by David in his own person, and for himself, shows that he was conscious of his own weakness to keep himself in the ways of God, and to direct…

Hold up my goings in thy paths - He had been enabled before this to keep himself from the ways of the violent by the word of God Psa 17:4; he felt his dependence on God still to enable him, in the…

This psalm is a prayer. As there is a time to weep and a time to rejoice, so there is a time for praise and a time for prayer. David was now persecuted, probably by Saul, who hunted him like a…

My steps have held fast to thy tracks,

My feet have not slipped.

The A.V. is grammatically untenable. He describes his conduct positively. Paths, a different word from that in Psa 17:17, denotes the…