Psalms 31:22

For I said in my haste,.... When he made haste to get away for fear of Saul, Sa1 23:26; and so the Targum renders it, "I said when I sought to flee away"; or else he said this hastily and rashly, in…

For I said in my haste - In my fear; my apprehension. The word rendered “haste” means properly that terror or alarm which causes one to flee, or to endeavor to escape. It is not “haste” in the sense…

We have three things in these verses: -

I. The believing acknowledgment which David makes of God's goodness to his people in general, Psa 31:19, Psa 31:20.

1. God is good to all, but he is, in a…

For I said&c. But as for me, I said In my haste (or, alarm). Humbly he confesses his want of faith in the hour of trial, when he thought himself out of God's sight, and contrasts it with God's…