Psalms 71:2

Deliver me in thy righteousness,.... By it, or "for the sake of it" (q); See Gill on Psa 31:1;

and cause me to escape; present danger, and out of the hands of enemies, as well as wrath to come, and…

Deliver me in thy righteousness - See the notes at Psa 31:1. The first three verses of this psalm seem in fact to have been taken, with slight variations, from the first three verses of Ps. 31. And…

Two things in general David here prays for - that he might not be confounded and that his enemies and persecutors might be confounded.

I. He prays that he might never be made ashamed of his dependence…

Deliver me&c. In thy righteousness wilt thou deliver me and rescue me: an expansion of the simpler rescue mein Psa 31:1. In thy righteousnessstands emphatically at the beginning of the sentence in the…