God delivered him into the hands of his enemies it was by his determinate counsel that he was crucified and slain, and he did not give in sensible comforts. Yet God forsook him, was far from helping him, and did not hear him, and it was this that he complained of more than all his sufferings. He offered up strong crying and tears to him that was able to save him, and with some fear too, Hebrews 5:7. He cried in the day-time, upon the cross, and in the night-season, when he was in agony in the garden. Note, Christ, in his sufferings, cried earnestly to his Father for his favour and presence with him. "However it be, yet God is good, and he is mine though he slay me, yet I trust in him though he do not answer me immediately, I will continue praying and waiting though he be silent, I will not be silent."īut is must be applied to Christ: for, in the first words of this complaint, he poured out his soul before God when he was upon the cross (Matthew 27:46) probably he proceeded to the following words, and, some think, repeated the whole psalm, if not aloud (because they cavilled at the first words), yet to himself. When we want the faith of assurance we must live by a faith of adherence. When we are lamenting God's withdrawings, yet still we must call him our God, and continue to call upon him as ours. But, Why has though forsaken me? is the language of a heart binding up its happiness in God's favour. To cry out, "My God, why am I sick? Why am I poor?" would give cause to suspect discontent and worldliness. Note, Spiritual desertions are the saints' sorest afflictions when their evidences are clouded, divine consolations suspended, their communion with God interrupted, and the terrors of God set in array against them, how sad are their spirits, and how sapless all their comforts!Įven their complaint of these burdens is a good sign of spiritual life and spiritual senses exercised. This may be applied to David, or any other child of God, in the want of the tokens of his favour, pressed with the burden of his displeasure, roaring under it, as one overwhelmed with grief and terror, crying earnestly for relief, and, in this case, apprehending himself forsaken of God, unhelped, unheard, yet calling him, again and again, "My God," and continuing to cry day and night to him and earnestly desiring his gracious returns. But others think it denotes only the tune to which the psalm was set. He is the hind of the morning, marked out by the counsels of God from eternity, to be run down by those dogs that compassed him. Christ is as the swift hind upon the mountains of spices, as the loving hind and the pleasant roe, to all believers (Proverbs 5:19) he giveth goodly words like Naphtali, who is compared to a hind let loose, Genesis 49:21. Some think they find Christ in the title of this psalm, upon Aijeleth Shahar-The hind of the morning.
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