Ver.  47.  The  God,  who  gives  me  venrjeance,  and  cotistrains
pfojoles  under  me.  This  aiul  tlie  following  verse  sum  up  in  brief
what  had  been  set  forth  in  detail  in  vers.  4-19  and  vers.  28-45,
and  direct  attention  to  the  ground  of  tlie  praise  of  God  in  the
preceding  verse,  to  the  facts  which  prove  Him  to  be  living,  ex-
alted, and  worthy  to  be  praised.  It  is  as  if  this  verse  had  begun
with  a.  for.  Revenge  is  justly  sweet  to  David,  because  he  does
not  take  it  for  himself,  but  God  takes  it  through  him.  "Where
the  individual  is  the  representative  of  right  appointed  by  God,  it
would  be  sinful  not  to  seek  revenge,  not  to  withstand  the  viola-
tion of  right,  not  to  strive,  that  injustice  may  recoil  on  the  head
of  those  who  commit  it,  and  not  to  rejoice  when  this  takes  place.'

Ver.  48.  Who  deliverest  me  from  my  enemies ;  Thou  also
liftest  me  up  from  my  adversaries,  from  the  man  of  violence
Thou  deliverest  me.  As  in  the  second  clause  there  is  no  positive
indication  either  in  the  verb  or  in  the  noun  of  a  climax,  f\H  can-
not be  used  to  denote  increased  force,  but,  as  very  commonly
in  the  Psalms  of  David,  simply  for  the  purpose  of  connecting
and  adding;  and  the  and  in  2  Sam.  approves  itself  as  the  n'ght
exposition.  If  we  seek  for  an  increase  of  force  in  the  noun,
then  'Dp  causes  us  perplexity ;  if  we  seek  it  in  the  verb,  we  are
again  perplexed  by  the  words,  "  Thou  deliverest  me,"  in  the
third  clause.  The  expression,  "  Thou  liftest  me  up  from  my
adversaries,"  is  constr.  prreg. :  exaltas  me,  hosiibus  meis  ereptum.
